A Detroit bus driver has died of COVID-19 just two weeks after ranting about a passenger openly coughing. Jason Hargrove posted a video on Facebook on March 21 lamenting over one of his passengers who wasn’t following the proper pandemic protocol of covering coughs.
Mayor Mike Duggan and the Amalgamated Transit Union confirmed his death on Thursday, NBC News reports. “We (are) out here as public workers doing our job, trying to make an honest living to take care of our families,” he says in the video. “But for you to get on the bus and stand on the bus and cough several times without covering up your mouth, and you know that we in the middle of a pandemic, that lets me know that some folks don’t care.” “It’s folks dying out here.