"It is not a human right to earn a living."

The UNCHR has begged to differ since 1948. Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...

> to just and favourable conditions

One could argue that putting yourself or others at risk of infection is not a “just and favorable condition”

Governments do not have rights, period. They exist solely at the consent and continued pleasure of the governed (or should at least). That is to say, every human has rights, because they are an individual human. The rights of people are self-evident and stem solely from the fact that people are human.

Governments have no rights. There is nothing that is owed to them due to their existence as governments. Were a particular set of people not to form a government, no other government could rightfully enter to assert their 'right' to govern.

I'd love to hear black or brown people adopt this as their motto.

Same

Gandhi was brown, and his policy of civil disobedience was essentially based on the premise that a government only derives its legitimacy from the will of the people to be governed by it. Leading to the act of mass civil disobedience.

It shouldn't, unless your only purpose is damaging that individual, which sounds to me like a not very humane purpose.

Work is one of the main purposes and goals an individual may have, together with family. Denying that to anyone is simple and plain tyranny.

>It is not a human right to earn a living.

What gives you the right to decide that?

Governments have no rights.

Human beings have rights.