The Cost of Coronavirus Obligations: Respecting the Letter and Spirit of Lockdown Regulations.
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
; 30(2): 255-261, 2021 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1149657
ABSTRACT
We all now know that the novel coronavirus is anything but a common cold. The pandemic has created many new obligations for all of us, several of which come with serious costs to our quality of life. But in some cases, the guidance and the law are open to a degree of interpretation, leaving us to decide what is the ethical (or unethical but desired) course of action. Because of the high cost of some of the obligations, a conflict of interest can arise between what we want to do and what it is right to do. And so, some people choose to respect only the letter of the law, but not the spirit, or not to respect even the spirit of the guidelines. This paper identifies and describes the new obligations imposed on us all by the pandemic, considers their costs in terms of the good life, and provides an ethical analysis of two personal and two public cases in terms of the letter and spirit of the guidance and legislation.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Quarantine
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Ethical Analysis
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Moral Obligations
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Government Regulation
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Camb Q Healthc Ethics
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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