Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Bryan Mukandi (2020) | The Ethics of the Pandemic

In stripping away so much of ordinary life, the COVID-19 pandemic
has revealed a lot about us – not all of it pretty. It’s also
confronted us with brutal ethical choices.

Who deserves to be saved when you're running out of ventilators?
How much are we willing to give up so others can get by? Who gets
to decide and what beliefs are shaping their decisions?

Step back from the day-to-day dilemmas of the pandemic to
understand the crucial lessons and hidden costs of our choices.


Matt Beard is an Australian moral philosopher at The Ethics
Centre and a regular writer on philosophy and ethics.


Eleanor Gordon-Smith is a writer and radio broadcaster working at
the intersection of academic ethics and the muddy chaos of life
between real humans.


Bryan Mukandi is an academic philosopher and health humanities
researcher, with a background in the practice of medicine in a
resource-poor, sub-Saharan African context.