COVID-19 has brought about numerous, devastating changes to people’s lives globally. With the number of cases rising across Canada and globally, we are also witnessing the development and use of robots to perform jobs in some workplaces that are deemed unsafe for humans.
Older adults, wrongly framed for years as a liability, are now being treated as a hot commodity to get vaccinated. But we have the opportunity to push back against the aging enterprise and exploitation, and revalue people who have consistently ended up on the margins.
Different levels of governments have ordered physical distancing measures of varying degrees. In this article, James Sikkema, Assistant Professor, Philosophy questions if they are truly lawful.
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