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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by mrkramer on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:48PM (#25392574)
I was alluding to legal situation and term of Negligent homicide/Involuntary manslaughter; it is defined as "the killing of another person without the intent to kill, but where the person's death occurs as a result of the negligent or reckless actions of the defendant."

In the situation of Covid it would be something like infecting another person without the intent to infect, but where the person's health might be endangered as a result of the negligent or reckless actions of the defendant (the one who spread the virus).

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by throwaway201103 on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:18PM (#25393624)
How does this differ from any other communicable disease with a non-zero mortality that someone might spread either unknowingly or negligently? E.g. influenza just to name one.
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