He wasn't so much asking as he was trying to cast blame toward Right Wingers. Unfortunately nobody knows what political party affiliation the rude, no class woman was. Of course my guess is she was a Democrat but nobody knows. Why the OP would assume we on the Right would approve of her actions is beyond my scope of understanding. Even school children know that coughing in someone's face is rude no matter if there is a v***s across the planet or not. It just isn't done. Yet the OP assumes we are all uncouth heathens who would approve of such practices. Pretty boorish behavior on his part if you ask me.

Dennis

Maybe and Maybe Not, depending upon the state where it takes place.

How can coughing on someone lead to criminal charges?
On Behalf of Kammen & Moudy, LLC | Apr 22, 2020 | Criminal Defense |
The headlines are often full of strange and scary stories. Some of the strangest are about people charged with crimes for weird behaviors, such as a man coughing on people in a threatening manner.
That was recently the case when a man was charged with assault for coughing on two medical center staff members in another state. According to the report, he told them their protective masks weren’t going to help them. Then he coughed on them to spread wh**ever contagions he may have had. The man’s behavior was strange, but the strangeness of the arrest may have also owed to the widespread confusion about assault and battery.
The difference between assault and battery
The laws for assault and battery differ from state to state, but the same general principle holds across most:
Battery refers to hostile or harmful physical contact
Assault refers to the threat of physical harm
Interestingly, there’s no crime of assault in the Indiana criminal code. Instead, the law separates the two types of behavior into charges of battery and intimidation. If prosecutors in another state would charge you with assault, you’d likely face charges of intimidation in Indiana.
One of the more important things to remember about intimidation is that it doesn’t require contact. Intimidation only requires that someone threatens another person to:
Try to get them to act against their will
Make them fear retaliation for actions that didn’t previously break the law
Get them to leave or stay out of a building or vehicle
In Indiana, intimidation starts as a Class A misdemeanor, but it can quickly become a felony if:
The threat is to commit a forcible felony such as murder
The threat is made against officers of the law, school employees, ministers or certain other people
The threat involves a weapon
Again, you don’t need to fire your gun to face felony charges for intimidation. And the definition of “threat” goes beyond physical harm. Indiana also considers it a “threat” if you say you’ll expose someone to cruelty or falsely harm their credit or reputation.
Criminal charges are no joke
It may seem funny to hear or read about someone facing criminal charges for coughing. But it’s no joke. You could face battery charges for striking someone or intentionally thrusting waste or bodily fluids on someone. Even making an intentional threat about coughing your germs onto someone could lead to trouble. And the intent is a key part.

Dennis

In Okla, where I had a brief stint in local law enforcement after completing my time in the army, assault is characterized as a threat (either uttered or demonstrated) and the means at hand to carry it out, along with an assumed intent of doing bodily harm. Assault and battery is any physical contact after the threat, whether or not the victim is physically injured. I'm thinking that in the coughing incident, the coughing demonstrates both intent and threat.

As you say, laws do vary widely from state to state and I was a police office waaaay back in 1966 and '67. Things may well have changed since.

If you are posting to me, you don't say so, nor did you click on, Quote Reply, then you are correct. I did mess up on ONE sentence. "You will never him put blame on any part of the Left Wing.".

Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I do appreciate it just as I have acknowledged many times that I would to other posters.

Pretty bad grammar, you say, for leaving one word out of a sentence. A bit harsh but then again I would expect no less from you. I can't help but wonder if it really bothers you or are you doing your best to be harassing. After all there are any number of other posters who truly make it difficult to decipher what they are trying to get across to us in their post(s).

But no matter. Thank you for pointing it out for me.

Dennis