I think it's interesting/illustrative to imagine a world where we had perfect knowledge of the history of any infection: "Your initial infection began because y

I think it's interesting/illustrative to imagine a world where we had perfect knowledge of the history of any infection: "Your initial infection began because you inhaled a droplet from James Smith on Tuesday at the grocery store, and he got it from..." While that would obviously be incredible from a research perspective, I'm thinking more about how it would change the way we view cause, effect, and individual responsibilities which people have towards not-harming their neighbors. Right now reckless people playing with infectious fire almost never pay for everything that gets burned down because of it, since it's so difficult to reconstruct what really happened.