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live love laugh

(13,104 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 09:27 PM May 2020

Man coughs and spits on woman she dies two weeks later

I heard this on Thom Hartmann’s show today.

London, transit worker, 47 years old was spat on, became ill within two days and died after hospitalization.


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Mujinga, 47, was working on the concourse at Victoria Station in London on March 22 when she and a colleague were assaulted by a man who claimed to have the coronavirus, according to The Guardian. The man reportedly spat and coughed in their faces before taking off.


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Within days, both women fell sick with the virus.

British Transport Police have since launched an investigation to find the accused spitter, BBC News reported.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article242675046.html#storylink=cpy



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The victim’s husband, Lusamba Gode Katalay, told the outlet that his wife and her co-worker were approached by the man who demanded to know what they were doing and why they were there.

“[Mujinga] told him she was working, and the man said he had the virus and spat on her,” Katalay said.

Mujinga, who had underlying health issues, was hospitalized at Barnet Hospital on April 2, according to BBC News. She was placed on a ventilator but died three days later on April 5.



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The incident has raised concerns about worker safety amid the pandemic that, as of Tuesday, has infected more than 227,000 across the United Kingdom and 4 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. Mujinga’s family told the UK outlet Sky News that she and her colleague begged not to be sent to work with the masses.

They wished to remain in the ticket office but were denied. Relatives said it didn’t help that Mujinga and other workers weren’t provided personal protective equipment, putting them at increased risk of contracting the virus.

“They weren’t given masks, or gloves, so they were exposed to everyone,” her husband told Sky News.





https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/uk-rail-worker-dies-coronavirus-spat-belly-mujinga?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1589278477

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Man coughs and spits on woman she dies two weeks later (Original Post) live love laugh May 2020 OP
We are all cogs in the vast machine of society and there is nothing we can do to stop them. cayugafalls May 2020 #1
This shit needs to be a charge of attempted murder if you say you have Covid whether or not you GemDigger May 2020 #2
They have to find him first. jimfields33 May 2020 #3
Then on top of the first law make another law that says turn yourself in or be GemDigger May 2020 #4
Yowza. Lol jimfields33 May 2020 #6
Me either. GemDigger May 2020 #7
I agree and the police should laugh at the person punch and say well deserved. jimfields33 May 2020 #8
Happened in Detroit too superpatriotman May 2020 #5
it does seem long long time ago. Things are moving so fast Demovictory9 May 2020 #10
If he knew he had Covid then that is murder. nt Quixote1818 May 2020 #9

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts)
1. We are all cogs in the vast machine of society and there is nothing we can do to stop them.
Wed May 13, 2020, 09:48 PM
May 2020

They will use us and throw us to the floor when they are done with us.

So f'ing sad.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
2. This shit needs to be a charge of attempted murder if you say you have Covid whether or not you
Wed May 13, 2020, 09:51 PM
May 2020

have it. Enough of this pussy footing shit.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
7. Me either.
Thu May 14, 2020, 12:20 AM
May 2020

Spitting is one of those things that flip my bitch switch so fast I would deck someone on reflex. I have no mercy on people who spit on people when they know they have a potential killer disease.

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