COVID-19, conspiracies and manufactured consent.

Questions about what comes next for the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic have been posed by the editors to everyone except those who proliferate conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have consequences for public health. Making these dangers known can initiate discussions on public trust.

Zero waste and Wastephilian ethics during COVID-19.

Responsibility toward the planet becomes imperative during the pandemic. Among the pressing issues, this is the management of waste. Ethical considerations on waste pertain to the consistency of adopting viewpoints that confront waste and its reality.

Sustainable diet and cruciform ethics during COVID-19.

Health inequalities in food challenge sustainable prospects during the pandemic. Basic sustainable diet practices may address this issue, but problems of nutrition arise due to unhealthy eating habits. An inductive approach through curbing one's diet forms certain ethics, which takes into account one's sacrifices for the collective.

Time to reopen schools: COVID-19, health disparity and education.

Weighing the dilemma of reopening schools during the pandemic is no longer a matter of self-determination but harm. Coronavirus disease 2019 has shown gross health inequality and, by extension, the inequality of society per se. The assertion that 'education continues despite the pandemic' using access to technological means is a privileged position.

Vulnerabilities in 'local moral worlds': COVID-19 provincial social work interventions.

Intending to contextualize vulnerabilities at the local level during COVID-19, this article reports an investigation of the social workers' interventions done in a Philippine province. Social workers as frontliners report on (i) the shift of interventions before and during COVID-19, (ii) the most vulnerable sector in their assigned areas, (iii) the problems in working out their field interventions, (iv) the emergence of creative programs and (v) key information to better improve or to have a more sustainable set of interventions in the long run.

Geophilosophical exemption to mandatory vaccination.

This correspondence introduces the ethics behind a specific exemption to mandatory vaccination. Public health acknowledges medical and non-medical reasons for vaccination exemption. Geophilosophical ones, which the author coined, can provide an option to remote populations with low density and are seeking more choices in confronting the dilemma of being vaccinated.

Metonymies, metaphors and/or language reconsiderations for sustainability during COVID-19.

Pandemic discussions employ language metaphors and metonymies to make sense of the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis. From commenting and proposing to revise terms such as social distancing, the war against the virus, to viewing mother nature as a killer, there are language reconsiderations to be made to avoid some disturbing mental imageries to picture a sustainable future. The Anthropocene geologic time and the improved environmental quality situate this backdrop.