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> Congress is currently considering liability shields for precisely this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/liability-shield-is-next-corona.. https://www.wsj.com/art
by ardy42 6y ago
> Congress is currently considering liability shields for precisely this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/liability-shield-is-next-corona.. https://www.wsj.com/articles/liability-shield-is-next-corona....
I guess the real priority is to make sure the brunt of the costs of these decisions are borne by those towards the bottom...
Legal liability will incentivize business to take steps to contain the virus and reduce transmission. Take that away and in many businesses will just go "¯\_(ツ)_/¯, not my problem."
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe priority is to make sure that businesses essential to our way of life keep operating. No attempt to reallocate the brunt of the costs will matter if meat stops showing up on the supermarket shelves.
- bkberry352 6y agoOur current way of life is based on a system that ensures that those at the bottom bear the brunt of the costs, it always has
- ardy42 6y ago> The priority is to make sure that businesses essential to our way of life keep operating. "Essential to our way of life" is actually a pretty expansive category, which encompasses a great deal of stuff that not actually essential by any reasonable definition.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoWhether business are essential in some broad, cosmic sense isn't that important. The question is which things we can keep shut down for months and months without riots or economic collapse, and that's a pretty small list.