Everyone on social media is righteous, well-informed, and opinionated regardless of their real-life actuality. Thus, obviously, everyone earns the right to criticize whoever they repulsively dislike. But, we all would agree there is a good difference between a mask we don on social media and our real self. Since last year, we all have witnessed around us as well as on news, how covidiots have argued and even gotten in fights to defend their ignorant beliefs. For people who consciously take all precautions, behavior from covidiots is deeply concerning. But, does such behavior also takes away the right to criticize the government? After all, as a citizen of a democratic country - no matter how wrong their actions may be, all are guaranteed of their basic rights which includes criticism and/or dissent.

Understanding the term and, the reason for behavior.

Despite the seriousness of the Pandemic caused by the novel corona virus, we all have witnessed people who still have no regard for precautionary health advisories. There have been no clinical studies yet to precisely attribute the behavior of covidiots however, based on instances reported around the world, the five predominant reasons are a privilege, rebellious excitement, ignorance, gratification, and lack of belief in a system. However, a factor that'd need deliberation is socio-economic as well as literacy in branding someone a covidiot. A homeless beggar not thoroughly following issued guidelines being branded as a covidiot shall be unfair.

Ways it affects the society at large.

At the onset, encountering a covidiot can be distressing to many due to their silly behavior, but a lot of times it potentially is dangerous, not just to themselves but to everyone else. Since the virus is transmitted mainly through the respiratory route, if an infected asymptomatic covidiot coughs, sneezes, sings, talks, or heavily breathes in close proximity of another person, chances of either respiratory droplets or aerosols, getting into the mouth, nose, or eyes of other people turns high. This process of transmission is absolute, irrelevant to the beliefs of a covidiot or faith on the covidiot from another person. In densely populated areas, such recklessness leads to a chain of transmission without any morality from the oblivious, perhaps a frivolous covidiot.

Solution.

One of the most common approaches witnessed in the real world as well as on social media is aggressive hostility towards covidiots which has very little effect on them. Instead, most of the time they have turned bitter towards society. Managing actions from such groups of people could seem futile in foresight, but as a civilized society, we must not only try to educate them but also strive to turn them into assets in our fight against this pandemic. Until now, law enforcement officers are solely relying on the monetary penalty which a commoner despises due to deep-rooted corruption in our policing system. One of the numerous hardly explored approaches in our country to tackle civil disobedience is community service. For covidiot brats who pose threat to society are mostly oblivious to possible consequences from their actions. Moreover, even if they or their close ones become a victim of covid, it is usually too late for any penance for reversal. Exposure to real world consequential scenarios and putting the responsibility of menial community services on their shoulders should evoke humility, gratitude, and a sense of responsible citizen. If implementing and replicating this model from town to town with an accomplishment of turning even 30% of covidiots into covid warriors - in our vast country, that number would be significant enough to bring the pandemic on its knees (again)

In these unprecedented times, following the age-old process may not necessarily yield desired results. Law enforcement officers should not merely look to deter via a monetary penalty instead, in this crisis deliberate an opportunity if they could channelize and harness the volume and energy of covidiots to make them into covid warriors.

Do Covidiots also have the right to criticize a government? Morally, not at all. But, we wouldn't be discussing this scenario if covidiots had a sense of morality in the first place. Legally, even a proven guilty criminal has the right to question and challenge a government decision. That's the beauty of a challenging, but thriving democracy in a country with billion people.

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