Arresting people for coughing won’t keep communities safer

Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Over the weekend, a man in North Dakota was arrested for coughing at a local Walmart. The store, like all Walmart stores, was limiting the number of people allowed in at once. The man apparently wasn’t happy to hear that, and intentionally coughed on store employees, the police chief said.
He joins a growing list of people arrested in the US for intentionally coughing in public in the past few weeks, as the accelerating outbreaks o