Where Has All the Justice Gone? A Review of Societal Justice Versus Individual Justice

Justice itself is a very elusive ethical principle, let alone defining justice during a pandemic that has been extremely difficult to navigate for a multitude of reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic is still testing our very limits of what it means to be “just” clinicians, “just” individuals, and “just” members of society. We often find ourselves trying to balance what is just with what is right clinically for our patients while also respecting the staff at the facilities where we work. We must set aside our own cultural, religious, and individual beliefs of what justice is and look at each situation in its own context.