23. COVID-19 大流行凸显了人类和社会的相互关联性，特别是我们共同的脆弱性。81 小马丁·路德·金牧师在他 1963 年著名的《伯明翰监狱的来信》中恰当而深刻地阐述了这一点，他指出：“我们都落在相互关系无可逃遁的网里，由命运将我们结为一体。对一处的直接影响，对他处便是间接影响。”同理，“那里”爆发的 COVID-19 疫情显然也是“这里”的 COVID-19 问题。82 当生活在“那里”的世界上绝大多数人民的人权悬于一线时，“我们”在“这里”也根本没有办法更充分地享有人权。83 这涵盖了那些“其他人”的发展权、健康权、受教育权、食物权、住房权和工作权。84
23. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the intensity of our interconnectedness as human beings and societies, especially our mutual vulnerability.81 That point was aptly and memorably articulated by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in his famous Letter from the Birmingham Jail of 1963, in which he noted that: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one, directly affects all indirectly.” Along the same lines, it should be clear that a COVID-19 outbreak “over there” is also a COVID-19 problem “right here”.82 There is simply no way of enjoying “our” human rights more fully “over here” while the human rights of the vast majority of the world’s peoples who live “over there” hangs in the balance.83 That includes the rights of those “others” to development, health, education, food, shelter and work. 84