All talk about the physical and social effect of covid 19 we rarely discuss it from the moral side. It is time to reconsider our moral values.
Dear Nadia Albayati, it is certainly necessary, useful, and appropriate to consider the moral effects of the COVID 19 pandemic also with respect to other terrible causes of death. Finally, from a few days, all the powerful in the world (even those who, until recently, wanted to buy entire pharmaceutical industries to have a vaccine exclusively for their citizens) have understood that when the vaccine is will be discovered it must be free for all humanity. I believe that this fact is a significant signal that indicates the need for greater union and solidarity also and above all at the level of States. Greater union and solidarity are necessary not only for political, economic, social reasons etc. but also and above all for moral and ethical reasons. So far, the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, and all the health NGOs operating in the world have been safeguarding ethics and morals, perhaps the time has come when governments also face the pandemic from an ethical and moral point of view. It is necessary to break down walls and build bridges as Pope Francesco says, also and above all from the moral point of view.
See my question: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_we_seem_very_worried_about_the_victims_of_COVID_19_and_dont_seem_concerned_about_the_victims_of_hunger_and_hunger-related_diseases
Herd amunity, lack of proper institutional support for the locked down needy individuals, the rise in crime rates, and the very use of the situation as a weapon of a cold war have all revealed not only our moral fragility but also the big lies and the pompous propaganda of world leading powers.
Please go through the news.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2020/04/15/coronavirus-ethics-humanitarian-aid
I would like to add that, at least from the part of the world where I live, the morality of individualism has completely lost its balance in regard with the values of living in community. This has directly affected the shape of our political, economic, and health institutions, which are now the key to surviving this pandemic. Therefore, more than just reconsidering our moral values, it is also important to learn how to cooperate and live as a society and not only as a group of individuals.
Although morality is often associated with religion, as human beings, our moral standards philosophy has been seriously scrutinized by the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, what moral justifications do the so called great nations have to be parading themselves as agents of the world health providers?! Hypocritically we have become selective in our approach to fight our common enemies. I believe poverty, injustice, insecurity, illiteracy, etc are all deadly infectious diseases. Humanity and morality are like a structure, each strengthening the other, as human beings, it high time we began to clasp our fingers together.
