Last Updated on: 8th September 2021, 09:42 pm
Who is Janene Hoskovec of Lincoln, Nebraska? Biography, Wiki
Janene Hoskovec is a woman accused of coughing while a mother and daughter shop at a Super Saver store in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Video of the September 3, 2021 incident went viral after it was posted on social media. Hoskovec works for SAP, and the company said in a statement that it is “investigating the situation.”
The woman without a mask in the video confronted the other buyers as they were wearing masks.
Hoskovec was first named Woman In Video by TikTok inventor ThatDaneshGuy, who is known to search and find people in viral videos and stories.
Danesh, who said he worked with another TikTok user, Guilt to confirm Hoskovec’s identity, posted on January 1.
Janene Hoskovec’s Age
Her current age is 54 years.
What Was The Incident? She Accused of Coughing
The incident happened at the Super Saver store near the South Pointe Mall on South 27th Street and Pine Lake Road on 3rd September 2021, as per the woman who coughed with her teenage daughter.
The video shows a woman pushing her shopping cart towards the woman, picking it up, and coughing several times. As she coughs, the woman says, “Sorry, I’m going on a date.” Then he said to the woman and her daughter, “Look, guys, they are so cute … they are such sheep.”
The receptionist asked the coughing man why he wasn’t wearing a mask, and she replied, “Because I don’t need one. I’m not sick and neither are you” a mask requirement for all non-residential premises in Lincoln and Lancaster counties, Nebraska, for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
In the video, the woman ignores the mother and daughter’s requests to stop coughing. He coughs several more times and says, “These are my allergies.” Then he adds: “Two years ago before someone started talking about COVID, that was fine with you.”
The video shows an employee approaching to intervene. The woman’s recording tells her that the other woman coughed it up, and the cough machine responds, “I have my allergies, And she was scared.”
Reddit user who posted the video, Jessabird, said in her post, “So my son and I were in the store tonight shopping when this lady came over and politely said ‘Sorry’ and to be honest.”
I thought she was going to ask me for help or where is something. I was about to say, “I don’t work here, ma’am” when she asked me why we were wearing masks upon realizing that she wasn’t there herself.
Her Professional Career
Hoskovec has lived in Arizona for several years and has worked at SAP for three years as per his LinkedIn profile.
On LinkedIn, she wrote: “Helping manage the IT, financial and legal complexities of digital transformation. Let’s talk about your employees and how you can support them on their transformation journey. With 20 years of experience in technology sales, I passionately support companies facing the IT, financial and legal complexities of digital transformation. When businesses harness the power of cohesive, progressive, and secure digital landscapes, they can successfully compete and thrive in the modern and rapidly changing digital economy.”
Hoskovec was an account manager at SAP in Tempe, Arizona from June 2018 to June 2020 and became a client partner at Tempe in June 2020.
Hoskovec previously worked as an account manager at SAP in Scottsdale, Arizona from 2006 to 2008.
As per her LinkedIn profile, Hoskovec previously worked for an SAP partner, SNP, as an account manager in Scottsdale from 2016 to 2018 and was an independent contractor as a project manager in Scottsdale from 2007 to 2015.
She also worked at IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
As per his LinkedIn, he was a NASA Technical Documents Specialist at the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base from 1998 to 1999.
What Police Have Investigated Up Till Now?
Lincoln Police have not commented on their investigation and have not indicated whether Hoskovec could be charged.
In other states, people have been arrested and convicted in similar situations.
In April 2021, in Florida, a woman named Debra Hunter was sentenced to 30 days in prison after coughing on a cancer patient at a Pier 1 Imports store in a mall in June 2020, WJXT reported.
Others have reportedly committed a terrorist threat, disturbing the peace and assaulting similar incidents in various states.
The City of Lincoln said on its website, “If you are fully vaccinated, wearing a mask indoors gives you extra protection from infection. Fully vaccinated people are well protected from serious illness and death from COVID-19, including the Delta variant. But we see cases in people who are vaccinated and can infect others. Therefore, even if you are fully vaccinated, you must now wear a mask inside. For masks to work properly, they must completely cover the nose and mouth and fit snugly on the sides of the face and around the nose. Your mask should be made of two or more layers of tightly woven, breathable material.”
