Much of their labor is immigrant, often illegal. They have to work, they have no resources to even try to protect themselves, they are generally excluded from health messaging, and they invariably live in close quarters with large numbers of other exploited illegal immigrants essential labor.
Any industry like that will be the same, but meat packing is probably the most extreme.
I’m sure the actual work is hygienic enough: certainly no evidence from consumers that it isn’t. But the focus of on protecting consumers, not staff.
Used to live near their headquarters. Everyone knew about the constant stream of repurposed school buses with blacked out windows going to their plants.
Do we need to review again, the mask is not about protecting yourself, it’s about protecting others. And we just do not know about how potential immunity to this thing works nor how long you might be contagious after recovery. He is a fucking physician! But also and asshole, so there is that…
I guarantee you he knows the bare minimum necessary to make money as an opthalmologist, or whatever, and probably couldn’t tell you what a spleen is, much less a virus.
My shaved side was getting annoying, so I just had my husband shave it for me… no going to the salon for me, either…
A friend of mine is in Doha in quarantine, as he’d just come from his family’s in Kuwait… He said Qatar has not issued any shelter in place orders, but many people are staying at home anyway…
Watch Trump whip this out at the next briefing and tout his latest ‘success’:
“Open up America! Now all we have to do is milk these babies and drink up! They tell me these are llamas, but I say they’re alpacas! Whatever they’re called… Jared has just set up an LLC to exclusively market this magic milk at only $99.99 per quart! By the way… see here?This is where the milk comes out of! Would you believe it?!”
