Is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not?

Final Position Paper

Ethics of breaking or ignoring pandemic related restrictions: One can argue that they are willing to personally take the chances to catch the virus by breaking pandemic related rules and restrictions.

However, this raises an important ethical question:

Is it ethical for people to break pandemic rules and restrictions? Why or why not? Questions to answer for this paper: — what do we owe each other? Is this as simple as willing to take solo risk? Does this impact only that one person? Society? Medical system (never know despite low risk could go bad)? Friends and family at risk? Risk of inadvertent asymptomatic transmissions to community/coworkers?

chose a position on the question you selected

Analyze the question using Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics,
and then argue in favor of your position using one of the above ethical theories (or any other covered in the class).