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A Detroit bus driver Jason Hargrove went on Facebook to talk about how a woman who was coughing repeatedly didn’t cover her mouth while on his bus. Hargrove shared his thoughts as COVID-19 has spread throughout the country. The bus driver said he there were at least nine others on the bus when the incident occurred.

“I feel violated,” Hargrove said in the April 3rd video. “I feel violated for the folks that were on the bus when this happened.”

“We out here as public workers, doing our jobs, trying to make an honest living to take care of our families, but for you to get on the bus and stand on the bus and cough several times without covering up your mouth … that lets me know that some folks don’t care. Utterly don’t give a f—, excuse my language,” Hargrove said.

On March 17 bus drivers refused to work and asked for more measures to be put in place to protect them. Glenn Tolbert, the president of the union for the Detroit Department of Transportation, told ABC affiliate WXYZ that of the city’s 530 drivers 100 were in quarantine and seven had tested positive for COVID-19.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has since put in new measures that allow people to get on buses from its back doors and also ride without collection bus fares. The mayor spoke about Hargorove’s unfortunate death“hit close to home.”

“He knew his life was being put in jeopardy, even though he was going to work for the citizens of Detroit every day, by somebody who just didn’t care. By somebody who didn’t take this seriously,” he said. “And now he’s gone.”

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