Just because producing food is a vital function, doesn’t mean every function at the plant is vital. I’d be surprised if as much as 50% of the 3,700 workers at the plant are employed directly on the line. The rest can go home - many layers of redundant management can go home to annoy their pets and family, routine maintenance can be triaged and most of it deferred for a short while, all project work can stop, sales and marketing can fuck right off (and stay there), HR can do the nothing they usually do equally well from home, and even the production lines can be thinned out. You could have, if you’d wanted to, dropped the number of people at the plant to several hundred, vs several thousand. Yes, production would have been impacted, but as it turns out (surprise!) a large fraction of the staff have the 'vid, AND the plant is completely closed down for at least three days.
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