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Comment by mwint | Hacker News Reader

Being personally educated on the risks to to people in my demographic, I would gladly sign an ironclad “I won’t sue the company if I get covid” contract to work in an office. If that’s the company’s concern, I suspect most people who hasn’t received a vaccine would sign such a contract.

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Will you compensate financially the co-workers you happen to infect and who are vaccinated but for whom the vaccine didn't work (10% or so risk)?

It's not about you, nobody's stopping you from playing Russian roulette with your own skull. I personally do not want to be around unvaccinated people any more than I want to be on the same road as a drunk or street racer.

I would agree to that, provided there is evidence to prove that the other person was infected from me and not anyone else and that this specific infection caused them harm.

Restitution on dubious causes is not something that would hold in a court, I think.

That's not the point.

I don't think you'd need anything other than pointing out that the person refused to take minimal precautions, even though it was available to them. I'm pretty sure employers have been sued for this one - not doing the basic minimum to keep others safe.

Civil courts, at least in the US, don't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt, after all - which is why you can get found not guilty for felony charges but still have to pay a wrongful death settlement for the same incident.

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