Since the beginning of the creation of communities (families, tribes, tribes), people have sought ways to arrange their interactions so that they serve security, comfort, development, to be able to distinguish between what is good and what is bad at the level of everyday life. In their struggle with nature, they sought support from faith. The intellectual elite became the priests, and instructions on how to act became the content of religion. At a higher level of integration, the role of rulers became more prominent, and guidance was sought in the laws they enacted - with the specific participation of more important subjects (hierarchs). In the background of this process were the efforts of sage-philosophers and theologians to create and arrange a system of professed values in specific areas and circumstances of life. The article pays attention to ethics in the sphere of health care and under pandemic conditions.