The current situation in the United States (and much of the world) is quite extraordinary due to COVID-19 (aka coronavirus). Several recent occurrences are described here (all after most local public schools closed on March 13, 2020). Wildish relocated to his vacation home in northern Idaho so he would avoid being exposed to COVID-19. Ulwelling heard about Wildish's relocation and, without doing any research of his own, immediately got the feeling that he should do the same thing. However, Siddiqui, who was Ulwelling's supervisor, ordered him to report to work in Irvine on the regular schedule since "I am the boss and you are the employee." Siddiqui believed that keeping a consistent schedule was better for the employees and the company alike. Saint saw several packages of toilet paper left unattended so she stole them because she could not find it elsewhere, she had lost her job, and she had five young children. Francis saw an elderly couple take a container of hand sanitizer from the shelf at the market so he moved quickly to grab all of the rest of the containers before they could get more. Voorhees saw this, grabbed two containers away from Francis, and handed them to the elderly couple since he wished someone would do that for him if he were elderly. The large supermarket chain called Ralph's limited all customers to two packages of meat per purchase so that more people could buy meat. Jade limited her shopping since she knew her mother would disapprove if mother found out Jade was a hoarder. Hannah claimed that any requirement to wear a mask in a public place was "an unconstitutional assault on our freedoms."Her (now former) friend, Octavia, disagreed with Hannah, stating:"What if everyone went without a mask?What about people with preexisting health conditions?Wouldn't you like it if you had a health issue and everyone wore a mask around you?"Smits had a feeling that the K-12 schools should be open "since it's the right thing; I just know it."Finally, Shaadie thought that "this whole coronavirus thing is a product of socialist fake news put out by the Democrat-friendly media."

Essay question: (a) Define the disclosure rule, the ends-means ethic, the Golden Rule, the conventionalist ethic and the intuition ethic (one sentence each).(b) Explain how each of these five ethical principles could best be applied to the matters stated above

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