[Goose]

You want to sue because the store wouldn't let you in without a mask? Or because you think you got covid there because you spotted another shopper without a mask? Or because you saw a clerk wiping down a shopping cart and he or she missed a spot? Etc.

I doubt any plaintiff's lawyer interested in making money would take any of those cases, or a million other similar ones. There would be strong defenses, not the least of which is that causation would be almost impossible to prove. The strongest cases might be employees suing their employers for failing to take mandated or reasonable precautions, and I'm not sure that would be such a bad thing. BTW, I'd bet the reason why the CDC's recommendations to the meat packing plants were watered down to the level of suggestions "if feasible" was to decrease the potential for such lawsuits to succeed.

Unfortunately in the civil courts today cases are often not decided by who is right, but rather by who the jury feels sorry for. If a person sues his employer for not doing enough to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace, does anyone honestly believe that the fact the employer made a good faith effort to follow the CDC guidelines will mater one bit?

[Goose]

You want to sue because the store wouldn't let you in without a mask? Or because you think you got covid there because you spotted another shopper without a mask? Or because you saw a clerk wiping down a shopping cart and he or she missed a spot? Etc.

I doubt any plaintiff's lawyer interested in making money would take any of those cases, or a million other similar ones. There would be strong defenses, not the least of which is that causation would be almost impossible to prove. The strongest cases might be employees suing their employers for failing to take mandated or reasonable precautions, and I'm not sure that would be such a bad thing. BTW, I'd bet the reason why the CDC's recommendations to the meat packing plants were watered down to the level of suggestions "if feasible" was to decrease the potential for such lawsuits to succeed.

Unfortunately in the civil courts today cases are often not decided by who is right, but rather by who the jury feels sorry for. If a person sues his employer for not doing enough to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace, does anyone honestly believe that the fact the employer made a good faith effort to follow the CDC guidelines will mater one bit?