It looks more and more likely that patient-0 was staff at a biolab in wuhan, china...and COVID-19 as we know it is the result of negligence at both that biolab and from China's leadership in allowing it to spread.

//why were they even handing highly contagious virii with no cure/vaccine in a lab with staff that does not appear to be set up/trained for that (biosafety level 4)
//why would they block domestic travel from Wuhan but continue to allowing international flights to leave there?

as far as my business..
We were humming..after ~30-40% annual growth the past 4 years...we were up over 200% the past 2 quarters(vs previous year).

i had a staff of all-star...but had to fire everyone.

all that momentum and goodwill from all those years.. gone instantly.

I checked for Texas and didn't see any current class action suits.

Curious if any of you knckleheads would(or are considering) utilizing our legal system to recover damages from this pandemic?

I've never utilized the legal system in my life...but i'm a little pissed out this thing even came to be....and double pissed off on what it did to my practice.

///i work in healthcare..primarily "elective"/cosmetic procedures. my undergrad was molecular bio (but havent touched a pipette in 20+ years)

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Posted by go ta hell ole miss

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Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:34 am to mrgreenpants

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act is difficult to get around. The US could declare China a sponsor of terror and consider this a terrorist act, which is how 9/11 victims brought suits, but that is unlikely.

If you think a couple of weeks of being shutdown while the government is paying your payroll and expenses to sit home is bad then you would really love what World War III with China would do to your business. If we started collecting trillions of dollars from them in our court tort systems and seizing their US assets to pay on the judgments that’s what it would likely come to.

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Posted by Spirit of Dunson

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Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:50 am to mrgreenpants

Not sure if serious gif.

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Posted by Bestbank Tiger

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Posted on 4/16/20 at 7:51 am to mrgreenpants

Only real way to get back at them is tariff the hell out of them. Either the tariff revenue pays the damages or the jobs come home and the taxes from that pay the damages.

Can't hit them directly.

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