What comes to mind is the legislation invoked in the USA to protect victims of HIV and AIDS.
There were people seeking relationships, no matter how brief they may be, during the horizon of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Of course, HIV leads to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) which at the time was debilitating leading to death. So, these happy-go-lucky forks needed to take their infectious status seriously. The American legislature criminalized the infection of unwitting people when their partner knowingly engaged in sexual transmission without regard for the safety of "the other." Those laws still stand today even though treatments are extremely successful. The laws still deter poor decision making by both partners and the infectious.
SARS-CoV-2 is a different virus than HIV (click here), but, due to the fact COVID-19 is dangerously debilitating and potentially deadly the comparison with HIV is correct. COVID-19, depending on the ability of a person to survive the infection then causes serious health considerations. SARS-CoV-2 is far more contagious than HIV because it is EASILY transmitted by droplet in common air space.
The press briefings often take place indoors with a strong potential to carry a droplet infection to everyone in the room. SARS-CoV-2 does not die after a person sneezes or coughs, but, continues to live in that air space. Therefore, in the absence of legislation that demands moral decisions regarding the protection of all others the BPA made the correct decision to file a lawsuit against a Brazilian president that does care about the safety of others. I would expect the courts to take the danger of SARS-CoV-2 seriously and decide in favor of the BPA and permanent protections in the press conferencing room(s).
If Bolsonaro is infectious he is not sequestering himself in a quarantine that would protect others while he fought the infection. He needs to test negative to SARS-CoV-2 before returning to public interactions including any such interaction with the Brazilian Press. It is my opinion his actions are deliberate and criminal.
July 8, 2020
By Rodrigo Pedroso
The Brazilian Press Association (click here) has said it will file a lawsuit in Brazil's Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro over possibly exposing members of the media to Covid-19, according to a statement from the association on Tuesday.
The association, known as ABI, alleged Bolsonaro did not respect the health safety distance from reporters, and took off his mask at Tuesday's televised press conference in the capital BrasÃlia, where he announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19.
ABI's statement accuses Bolsonaro of endangering the lives of journalists who were present. "The country cannot watch continued behavior that is beyond irresponsible and constitutes clear crimes against public health, without reacting," said the association's president, Paulo Jeronimo de Souza....
