Global health pandemics (such as COVID-19) can result in rapid changes to sanctionable behaviour, impacting society and culture in a multitude of ways. This study examined how pandemic culture and accompanying moral order was produced within and through social interaction during the first and second waves of COVID-19 in Australia. The data consisted of a corpus of 29 video-recorded paediatric palliative care consultations and were analysed using conversation analysis. Analysis showed how adherence to pandemic rules became morally expected, and moral concerns about actual or potential violations to these rules became relevant in and through social interaction during this period. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment for how accountable actions and a moral order are negotiated in and through our social interactions when our taken-for-granted ‘natural facts of life’ change in response to a global public health crisis.

全球健康大流行（例如 COVID-19）可能导致可制裁行为的快速变化，以多种方式影响社会和文化。这项研究调查了在澳大利亚第一波和第二波 COVID-19 浪潮期间，大流行文化和伴随的道德秩序是如何在社会互动中产生的。数据包括 29 个视频记录的儿科姑息治疗咨询的语料库，并使用对话分析进行分析。分析表明，遵守流行病规则如何成为道德上的预期，并且在此期间，对实际或潜在违反这些规则的道德担忧在社会互动中变得相关。