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Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by greggman on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:13PM (#11505953)
So if you come to a bar with the flu and get me sick should I hold you responsible for fuck ups? Or maybe the bar? What if one of their workers is the one with the flu?

I'm not sure it's comparable, flu only kills 4x more people as cholera and honestly I'd personally like it if I could sue people for getting me sick by going out to public places when they know they are sick. (A friend of mine just gloated on twitter that he probably got 100 people sick by attending a meetup with the flu.)

That said, since most people don't seem to agree with me and just take it as normal that sicknesses get passed on with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ type attitude I guess I'm unsure how to hold the UN any more responsible.

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Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 16, 2016 @11:37PM (#11513397)
> honestly I'd personally like it if I could sue people for getting me sick by going out to public places when they know they are sick

You definitely can do this. They'd need to have something more serious than the flu. Forcible quarantine for severe communicable diseases is a feature of US law.

> flu only kills 4x more people as cholera

How many people have the flu, vs how many having cholera?

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Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by EdHominem on Monday April 18, 2016 @02:39AM (#11518082)
He'd only need to sue for damages because they violated reasonable self-quarantine principles and put him and others at risk - not force the state to actually quarantine them.

And he could definitely sue. USA!

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Re:CDC map quietly confirms the Haitian cholera epidemic sta... by zymhan on Friday April 15, 2016 @04:23PM (#11507344)
It's not like this was inevitable, had the UN peacekeepers simply setup adequate sanitation, they wouldn't have polluted and infected so many Haitians.
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