re: If new technology in contact tracing showed exactly whom you caught the common cold from..

Well they do that with AIDS so there is precedent to file criminal charges on someone who willingly gave the illness to somebody without disclosure.

so just to be logically consistent with everything else that we demand in our society.

1. If we can tell the kid is yours you got to pay
2. If we can tell that you got somebody sick you got to pay
3. If we can tell that you distracted a driver and they got in an accident, you got to pay.