Thread by @TheMemeticist

This is what happens when you legalize the spreading of COVID-19.

Everyone gets a free license to spread whatever they want like #tuberculosis, and they kind of have a point. Not illegal for COVID, why illegal for TB?

https://twitter.com/MeetJess/status/1622782886641385480

Oh, don't worry, it's not COVID; it's just TUBERCULOSIS!

Both are BSL-3 pathogens. I think they need to make spreading COVID illegal too otherwise this makes no sense.

https://twitter.com/nyssabulous/status/1622783636599611392

"Personal Public Health" should come with personal liability IMO, because I have genuinely been trying to live by this approach since my society adopted it.

Still, it feels like no one else is playing by those rules because no one gets held responsible, ever!

I want some liability for people who pollute my biome, if it's up to me to protect it all the time with no more "Public Health", instead we have an absurd system where if I were to go to local police with concerns about others infecting me, I would likely have no recourse.

But this isn't just a hypothetical! I have been threatened with infection by people and given the prevalence of the virus in the community, these are credible threats, but police do nothing because the virus is branded "COVID" instead of TB.

Many others face similar situations where they are routinely threatened with infection due to others' behavior.

But crickets from the justice system.