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by ctrlp 1744 days ago
Should that be the precedent for all communicable disease going forward? What about the common cold your child gave me that caused me to miss work? Will you be liable for that?
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If my kids walk around knowingly infecting people with a deadly communicable disease for which there is a free and safe vaccine for... then yes.
Many people's kids are, in fact, sent to school with communicable diseases that are deadly for some, just as Covid is deadly for some. But why stop at death? If your child's cold costs me a day of work, then by your logic, I should sue you for lost wages.