Original sentence: He quoted from HBO's Deadwood, discussing the history of the cigarette business, announcing a Calvinist grading policy, and forbade his students from attending his class in-person due to the risk of transmitting COVID, saying,"You people are just vectors of disease to me and I don't want to be anywhere near you, so keep your fucking distance
Edited sentence: He read from a script which he apparently wrote, quoting from HBO's Deadwood, discussing the history of the cigarette business, announcing a Calvinist grading policy, and discouraged his students from attending his class in person due to the risk of transmitting COVID, saying,"You people are just vectors of disease to me and I don't want to be anywhere near you, so keep your fucking distance