Originally Posted by Excargodog

And it isn’t just ‘most states’, it is internationally as well. And a disproportionate percentage of the younger people who did get serious cases were healthcare workers in those nursing homes which, unlike hospitals, had never been designed with the capability of strict isolation, far less isolation sufficient for a Biosafety level 3 or 4 organism.

The decision by certain governors to send known contagious people to these nursing homes may or may have not been legal, I’m no constitutional scholar, but it was certainly the WRONG decision, and whether or not it was within the limits of their police power it unquestionably has incurred a huge civil liability for the taxpayers of those states. And enough people died in those nursing homes - thousands of people - that it will almost certainly be a class action suit attracting the most capable lawyers for the families of the deceased. And this is a litigious society. I mean, we have sued Johnson and Johnson into submission over baby powder. Does anyone seriously think the lawyers are going to let NY and NJ skate over this?