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Podcast: Plain Talk
Episode: 196: "We have to protect businesses from lawsuits"
Description: During the COVID-19 pandemic, business owners and policymakers have had to walk a balancing act between acknowledging the very real dangers of the coronavirus outbreak and the terrible economic realities attendant to shutting down or restricting businesses. Keeping businesses open during the pandemic - a necessity because people still needed many of those businesses, and those businesses needed to survive - was a health risk for business owners, the employees, and the customers. How much of that risk should business owners be liable for? "Businesses need to be protected from lawsuits," Allison Ritter...