Legal PPE

Some of these are the same Republicans strutting around the Capitol without masks on this week.  If they don't have anything to worry about, then why should any of these businesses?

Restaurants serving takeout and delivery orders in Louisiana during the coronavirus outbreak and businesses providing protective gear should be largely shielded from lawsuits for injuries, the state Senate decided Thursday.

Senators overwhelmingly supported the pair of bills, Senate Bills 491 and 508, from Republican Sens. Sharon Hewitt and Patrick McMath, which are similar to business-backed measures proposed in other states and in Washington amid the pandemic.

The bills aren't even directly COVID related. They just say if you have a job doing something like, delivering food, and you have been compelled back to work by a boss who has deliberately kicked you off of your unemployment benefits, then that employer is not responsible if you slip and fall on the job, for example.  Because any excuse to stick it to you..