It’s already hard to find most essential items, if they cut off the supply chain it’s going to be impossible. If the fucking post office and liquor stores are considered “essential” they better sign an executive order forcing these plants to stay open by any means necessary. If every other essential business is managing to continue operations safely they can too.
shareYeah, I work in an “essential” Brass Foundry. I still work and push comes to shove, no one can eat brass.
shareEasy. Just import processed meat from China. Problem solved.
sharekeep the meat processing plants open!
sharehttps://youtu.be/X1vx6PRFT5U
This is bullshit!
Alex Jones has it covered.
shareLike that Alex Jones guy went batshit yesterday because he could not find meat to buy or eat. Buying food from amazon groceries seems to be the way people are going to buy meat.
shareSomeone needs to start a MoveOn petition to close the plants down and quarantine the animals for a couple weeks.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I'd rather eat no meat for a short time than diseased meat.
They do need to close the suspect plants until that question can be answered - is it the animals, or the way the workers interact?
Until then, everyone likes mac and cheese.
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Is anyone suggesting that the meat or animals might be diseased? I thought it was the cramped conditions of the workplaces.
shareI suppose there's a theoretic possibility. The CDC has said that cats can catch it from humans, and there's the suspicion that the disease originated in bats or pangolins and was transmitted to humans, so it's know that the COVID-19 virus can travel from some humans to animals, and possibly the reverser. And it's been known for a long time that birds and pigs and humans can share viruses back and forth, which is where we get "Swine Flu" and "Bird Flu". This was something we covered in college microbiology, how species-to-species transmission of viruses results in increased mutation rates, and that can lead to increased virulence.
I know it's just a theoretical possibility, the likeliest thing is that the humans in the plants are transmitting the virus to one another because of inadequate precautions and bad working conditions. But I wish the CDC would make absolutely sure there's no human-to-animal or animal-to-human transmission going on, before there's a push to keep all the plants open.