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Workers and customers are catching Covid-19. Should businesses escape blame?

9 points by sharkweek 6y ago

NotSammyHagar 6y ago
If you give companies a big shield against cv19, how will you incentive them to give basic and necessary protections to workers? These low wage job workers are really vulnerable because they mostly don't have money saved up and have to work. There's the issue that you can't know where someone got it, but in these big factories where huge numbers of people get it and it goes through the factory, it came from there at least for some of them. I think we're just screwed. Big business wants these shields, workers in the us don't often have a good outcome in that situation.
- Fjolsvith 6y ago
  If you make companies liable for Covid, you make them liable for every illness under the sun. Say goodbye to society. Better is to make the individual liable for giving someone else Covid, similar to HIV. A sick person is the one who is contagious, not the business.
aaron695 6y ago
Governments and medical bodies have no idea wtf to do, but business do? But it is a interesting legal topic for the moment. Is it worth losing your house over reopening your business? Can you get insurance atm? No matter what you do your customers and employees will get it at some point. > given the hurdle of proving where exactly anyone was infected. Some place are using genetics to play the blame game already. I wonder why we never did this with AIDS. No technology or we didn't like dystopia?
8bitsrule 6y ago
> Maria Pilar Ornelas struggled to breathe with a fever of 103.7.... she says her supervisor told her to come to work anyway. What can be said about that kind of attitude towards other human beings who are your employees and whose labor is the source of your profits? It's insane. And the sane response is to save yourself. And if they don't care about you, you don't care about them, and you sue their ass off to get your bills paid, and you tell their customers all about it loud and clear. If businesses like that are 'worried', that's a damn good thing. Because their attitude is inhuman, and they belong in the sewer of history. Along with Mr. Turtle from Kentucky.

9 points by sharkweek 6y ago

If you give companies a big shield against cv19, how will you incentive them to give basic and necessary protections to workers? These low wage job workers are really vulnerable because they mostly don't have money saved up and have to work. There's the issue that you can't know where someone got it, but in these big factories where huge numbers of people get it and it goes through the factory, it came from there at least for some of them. I think we're just screwed. Big business wants these shields, workers in the us don't often have a good outcome in that situation.

Fjolsvith 6y ago
If you make companies liable for Covid, you make them liable for every illness under the sun. Say goodbye to society. Better is to make the individual liable for giving someone else Covid, similar to HIV. A sick person is the one who is contagious, not the business.

aaron695 6y ago

Governments and medical bodies have no idea wtf to do, but business do? But it is a interesting legal topic for the moment. Is it worth losing your house over reopening your business? Can you get insurance atm? No matter what you do your customers and employees will get it at some point. > given the hurdle of proving where exactly anyone was infected. Some place are using genetics to play the blame game already. I wonder why we never did this with AIDS. No technology or we didn't like dystopia?

8bitsrule 6y ago

> Maria Pilar Ornelas struggled to breathe with a fever of 103.7.... she says her supervisor told her to come to work anyway. What can be said about that kind of attitude towards other human beings who are your employees and whose labor is the source of your profits? It's insane. And the sane response is to save yourself. And if they don't care about you, you don't care about them, and you sue their ass off to get your bills paid, and you tell their customers all about it loud and clear. If businesses like that are 'worried', that's a damn good thing. Because their attitude is inhuman, and they belong in the sewer of history. Along with Mr. Turtle from Kentucky.