The pandemic experience certainly offers many opportunities for Monday morning quarterbacking.
I agree that very short-term lockdown may have been justified to get a handle on things.
I don't like that DeSantis blocked private businesses, such as cruise lines, from choosing to require customers to be vaccinated.
One of the emergency COVID laws shielded businesses from liability if an employee or customer became infected. If businesses could have been subject to COVID liability, that might have allowed the market, rather than government, to define the optimum, cost-effective protocols to minimize infection risks.
I'm not sure if I gave the impression that I supported the lockdowns early on. I understood the panic born of uncertainty, but I was and remain undecided as to whether that coercion should have happened.
As to your second para, my issue would be the insanely litigious society we live in, and the zero consequences for frivolous lawsuits. Proving causality would be difficult, and would likely require jury trials, which most small businesses cannot afford to engage in. I would foresee a massive shakedown of small businesses by the unscrupulous.
We need tort reform, which I'd put ahead of attempting to reintroduce market forces in such areas.
The pandemic experience certainly offers many opportunities for Monday morning quarterbacking.
I agree that very short-term lockdown may have been justified to get a handle on things.
I don't like that DeSantis blocked private businesses, such as cruise lines, from choosing to require customers to be vaccinated.
One of the emergency COVID laws shielded businesses from liability if an employee or customer became infected. If businesses could have been subject to COVID liability, that might have allowed the market, rather than government, to define the optimum, cost-effective protocols to minimize infection risks.
I'm not sure if I gave the impression that I supported the lockdowns early on. I understood the panic born of uncertainty, but I was and remain undecided as to whether that coercion should have happened.
As to your second para, my issue would be the insanely litigious society we live in, and the zero consequences for frivolous lawsuits. Proving causality would be difficult, and would likely require jury trials, which most small businesses cannot afford to engage in. I would foresee a massive shakedown of small businesses by the unscrupulous.
We need tort reform, which I'd put ahead of attempting to reintroduce market forces in such areas.