In 2020 many governors have tried to minimize deaths from the pandemic through mandated lockdowns, distancing, face covering, and vaccination.
But these coercive decrees unjustly violate private property rights and often backfire by killing more people from suicides, overdoses, and other causes.
The good news is that governors can overcome almost any pandemic with just these two natural laws, neither of which violate anyone’s rights or risk making things worse:
- Outlaw infection by non-consensual exposure: If anyone infects someone else by committing warranted transmissive behavior to that person without their consent, while both are on a property that didn’t have infectious levels of the virus otherwise and the property-owner did not permit warranted transmissive behavior, then the infector must make restitution to the afflicted upon conviction by paying for all medical treatments and time lost income due to the affliction, including lifetime lost income if the afflicted dies from the infection and was afflicted unintentionally, and also permanent exile if afflicted intentionally and recklessly.
- Outlaw warranted transmissive behavior in warranted green zones: If someone performs spreading behavior on a property where the property-owner voluntarily made a warranted green zone, then that person owes the property-owner restitution by paying for restoring the property as a green zone and clearing it of enough of the virus so no one can become infected by non-spreading behavior. If a property-owner claims their property is a warranted green zone but allows warranted spreading on that property, then the property-owner must make restitution for fraud by paying for the cost of the potential medical treatments to anyone exposed without consent, including income lost due to recovering from actual affliction, and including lifetime lost income and permanent exile if any die from affliction.
That’s it.
Judges and juries determine what constitutes warranted transmissive behavior and warranted viral green zones by trial.
They cross-examine evidence presented by anyone willing to make publicly notarized statements, which take full liability for presenting false evidence or statements, about what constitutes transmissive behavior and transmissible environments.
That ensures the standards for legally warranted transmissive behavior and warranted viral green zones are justified with the strongest evidence available.
Any judge, or anyone willing to present stronger counter-evidence, can revise these warrants at any time through appeal, ensuring standards evolve as the best evidence evolves.
These laws uphold private property rights because they operate like the natural laws against blowing poisonous powder onto others.
So focusing on non-consensual spread and viral green zones is not only pro-liberty, but also most likely saves the most lives and ends pandemics as soon as possible.