Landlord won't let me stay if I catch COVID

[quincy]

So if everyone who has symptoms that could be a sign of HIV is being barred from a business, that wouldn't be illegal either?

You cannot compare HIV to Covid. The means of transmission are different.

 

[Just Blue]

So if everyone who has symptoms that could be a sign of HIV is being barred from a business, that wouldn't be illegal either?

If that business is a brothel, then yes, that would be legal.

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

So if everyone who has symptoms that could be a sign of HIV is being barred from a business, that wouldn't be illegal either?

HIV is spread very differently than COVID.

 

[quincy]

iqeylvadxqhj, you can refer back to the information in the link I provided earlier on HIV-AIDS discrimination to perhaps better understand the differences between the infectious illnesses.

 

[iqeylvadxqhj]

You cannot compare HIV to Covid. The means of transmission are different.

Would you mind pointing me to the law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, but legal to discriminate based on having the flu?

 

[Zigner]

Would you mind pointing me to the law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, but legal to discriminate based on having the flu?

That's not how it works. You would need to find a law that makes it illegal to "discriminate" based on the flu.

 

[quincy]

Would you mind pointing me to the law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, but legal to discriminate based on having the flu?

It is legal if there is no law that says it’s illegal.

That is why the owner of an establishment can bar from entry shoeless, shirtless patrons. There is no law that says they can’t.

And that is why the owner of an establishment cannot bar patrons from entry based solely on national origin, race, color, religion, disability, sex, or familial status. There is a law that says they can’t.

 

[iqeylvadxqhj]

That's not how it works. You would need to find a law that makes it illegal to "discriminate" based on the flu.

If you are claiming that it's illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, then that's exactly how it works.

Please show me the law? I would like to better understand the actual legal distinction between diseases that you're allowed to use as the basis of discrimination, and those that you are not.

 

[quincy]

If you are claiming that it's illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, then that's exactly how it works.

Please show me the law? I would like to better understand the actual legal distinction between diseases that you're allowed to use as the basis of discrimination, and those that you are not.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/federal-protections-against-national-origin-discrimination-1

 

[Zigner]

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/civil-rights-center/statutes/section-504-rehabilitation-act-of-1973
and (for the definitions): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/705

 

[quincy]

“Colds” and the flu are not protected under discrimination laws.

 

[Zigner]

If you are claiming that it's illegal to discriminate based on HIV status, then that's exactly how it works.

Please show me the law? I would like to better understand the actual legal distinction between diseases that you're allowed to use as the basis of discrimination, and those that you are not.

Here's one more: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12102

In essence, it's not "diseases" that are protected, it's "disabilities". Generally, a disability would have to substantially impair one or more major life activities. A short term illness, such as the flu (or COVID) does not, in and of itself, do so.