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Yes, not something you should do on purpose.

However, that's still going to happen. Once someone high enough gets sick all of a sudden the company will start caring about their employees.

Once the situation clears, I would encourage everyone at this company to quit and find somewhere else to work.

I too love this kind of humor. Don't worry, I'm not one to break reasonable laws, much less try to harm people. :)

A law against spreading illness if you're actually sick seems reasonable, but against coughing to feign illness?

Problem is, if he is asymptomatic, he may be spreading it anyways, and may have criminal charges thrown at him (happened already in many places)

It would be pretty hard to prove somebody coughed deliberately (unless they talked about their plan online first...)