The COVID-19 pandemic was (and still is) a global pandemic that took the world by storm by making drastic changes in the way everyone lives their day-to-day life. The healthcare workers at the frontline were blatantly exposed to all the new risks this disease brought unto our society, leading some to question what comes first: the healthcare worker and his entourage’s health or the patient’s? Although utilitarianism encourages the separation of the worker from the patient in order to reduce the spread of the sickness, ethical rationalism offers a more convincing argument by promoting the…