Who should pay for pandemic impacts?

The COVID-19 pandemic and the severe economic recession it induced are disasters unparalleled in recent generations and it will take years to fully recover from their human and financial tolls.
Already, however, they are spawning legal and political conflicts, over whom, if anyone, should be accountable for their impacts.
There is, for instance, a flurry of lawsuits — so many that there’s even a special website devoted to cataloging who’s suing and being sued. Cruise