Why China Is Unlikely To Be Held Liable For The Pandemic JONATHAN TURLEY
Joseph Stalin once said a single death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic. The observation was chilling because it has a grain of truth about how we process tragedies. The same is sometimes true legally. If a government kills one person, it is a murder. If it kills thousands of people, it is a policy. That cold fact soon may be evident in a growing number of class action lawsuits now brought against China over its failure to notify the world promptly of the coronavirus, along with renewed allegations that the outbreak may have started in a laboratory in Wuhan.