Woman Who Coughed On Shoppers At Nebraska Grocery Store Loses Job

LINCOLN, NE — An Arizona woman is without a job after she was filmed maskless and coughing on others while shopping at a Nebraska grocery store.

The woman, identified as 54-year-old Janene Hoskovec, according to a report by Newsweek, was seen in a cell phone video coughing at the woman recording her as well as her daughter before telling other shoppers they are “sheep.”

She is also heard saying she doesn’t need a mask because “I’m not sick and neither are you."

This certainly isn’t the first time someone in the United States was filmed bucking public health guidance and harassing others about mask-wearing.

In April, a California woman was charged with assault after she was filmed coughing into a 1-year-old baby's face. According to prosecutors, the woman removed her mask and coughed three times in an infant's face after she got into an argument with another woman in line at a Yogurtland in San Jose.

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At the start of the pandemic, in what cops called a “twisted prank,” a Pennsylvania woman purposely coughed on $35,000 worth of groceries that had to be thrown away.

The woman made "verbal threats that she was sick while intentionally coughing and spitting saliva [and] bile" on the grocery items, police said in a news release.

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The city of Lincoln and Lancaster County in Nebraska currently requires all individuals 2 and older to wear a mask while indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

On Wednesday, the woman in the Super Saver video was identified as an employee of German-based software company SAP, Newsweek reported. According to Hoskovec's LinkedIn page, she worked in Tempe at the Arizona branch of SAP.

“The health and safety of our employees and the communities in which we live and work are of utmost concern to us. We are taking the matter of an SAP employee incident very seriously and investigating the situation,” SAP wrote in a series of tweets. “We have reviewed the incident and can confirm that the individual in question no longer works for SAP.”

No charges have been filed in connection with the incident, the Lincoln Police Department said in a statement to Omaha-based KMTV.