Jailing people who use Covid-19 as bioweapon would be ‘discrimination.’ So better lock up everyone instead?
Jailing people who use Covid-19 as bioweapon would be ‘discrimination.’ So better lock up everyone instead?
Accidentally spreading Covid-19 is wanting grandma dead, say opponents of ending lockdowns. Yet activists now worry that proposed laws to punish those who threaten to spread it deliberately would discriminate against minorities.
A Florida man spat and coughed on a police officer responding to a domestic violence call, and faces up to five years in prison on a federal charge of biological weapons hoax (he was negative for Covid-19). Another man in Texas, who falsely claimed on Facebook that he paid someone to spread the virus at local grocery stores, was charged with the same thing. A Michigan man who wiped his face with a store employee’s shir...