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Old Mar 1, 2020, 11:24 pm
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s0ssos
 
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Originally Posted by etch5895
When I book a hotel room, I'm only expecting to pay what I agreed to up front. Additionally, who determines the fair room rate here, assuming that you aren't even able to use all of the hotel facilities if you are quarantined. What if you just don't have the money to pay for two additional weeks at an expensive hotel? If I am forbidden from leaving the property against my will, that becomes a problem between the government who forced the quarantine and the hotel.
And if you die, then you will sue the government for giving you the virus?

But going off your logic, who is going to pay the housekeeping staff? The kitchen staff? I presume they will work for free?
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