Pandemics effect on ethics- IHSS- Talulah

This article forced you to think about how Covid-19 has affected our morality, and what practices make someone ethical in this context. During this global pandemic, people were forced into isolation, and while most of us felt lonesome a majority stayed inside their corridors. This was mainly due to constringent rules keeping people inside but also having trust in others. While many stayed inside, for some being alone wasn’t bearable. Going to see others, even when you or your family weren’t high risks were seen as unethical. Risking other’s lives so you can have a fun night was selfish, but in any other scenario, hanging out with people seems wouldn’t have this effect and would be fine. Covid has affected what we see as moral, because the whole world, in what seemed like a day, shut down. The writers in this article made it clear that it wasn’t their jobs to say what was ethical, and what wasn’t, they instead wanted us to make that decision. One of the questions they asked so we would think about this was, “What values, principles, or behaviors shape how people imagine themselves as responsible, caring subjects during COVID-19?”. As for a few months ago, the answer to this question seems fairly certain, staying inside, isolated, only taking what you need, and always wearing a mask in public, or even your neighborhood. Covid-19 has changed a majority of our intimate practices and how we interact with strangers or even family members. Some of our world’s primary practices have been altered, such as blowing out candles on a birthday cake, going to large parties, going on dates, even hookups. While these changes have nothing to do with ethics, it’s our response to the change that does. 

Near the end of this article it explained how in times of nationwide crisis, ethical boundaries may be crossed, meaning discriminatory acts against, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people in poverty, and those who speak different languages, happen but can go as unnoticed because it’s outwardly normal in our society. Data showed that those in the non-white populations have died irregularly higher than those of the white population. The response to this data, and legislations set by our law-keepers, is what interested those studying “crisis ethics”. Either those not being affected could sit back, and enjoy their privilege, or stand up for those being discriminated against. This choice showed the ethnographers the specific ethical beliefs in our society. 

https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5126/641 

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