COVID-19

[Reptoid Overlords]

I read something about a Smithfield ham processing plant somewhere in one of the Great plains states having the same situation.  They ran the plant knowing people were sick, then abruptly shut it down when it got out of control.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/us/cdc-report-smithfield-plant-south-dakota/index.html

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Reptoid Overlords

[Pilgrim]

I believe that pork production is currently about 25% below normal levels, and some midwest hog farmers are slaughtering stock because they can't sell them and can't afford to keep them.

Meat packing plants in general are low wage jobs with a heavy proportion of foreign-born and ESL workers. They tend to be elbow-to-elbow workplaces that wait for major problems before taking action about anything.  I've gone through both beef and chicken processing plants and have seen the work.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Pilgrim

[Zed Head]

Exposure.  This is where the ideas come from.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

[Mark Maras]

 Not ideas, fantasies. Probably one of the greatest fantasies that have ever been. Like everything else he has or hasn't done. 

[Zed Head]

[siteunseen]

I've started huffing Lysol instead of metallic gold spray paint.

Mow the yard in direct sunshine and huff some Lysol. Life is good!

Edited April 24, 2020 by siteunseen

[Mark Maras]

 I'm staying with the tried and true Quinine and Gin.

[siteunseen]

I've always said gin taste like Pine Sol but I've never had pine sol and tonic? Maybe my mind thinks gin taste like the smell of pine sol? Like sauerkraut taste like the smell of farts. I could go on but I won't.

 

[Mark Maras]

 Pine Sol and Quinine is an appropriate name for a Covid-19 cooler.

[siteunseen]

Were you in Alabama in late '68? Dad?

[Zed Head]

Here's a country of 211 million people, with a few population centers similar to New York City, where they did not try to flatten the curve.  Brazil.

https://twnews.us/us-news/brazil-becoming-virus-outbreak-center-as-hospitals-buckle

[Zed Head]

Posted way back about about Brett Crozier and the USS Theodore Roosevelt as an unintended casualty of the COVID-19 fiasco.  Here's recent news, and an article I had missed.  I think that Esper might be cast from the same mold as Modly, or worse, so who knows what the final decision will be, but at least there is still some structure to the world.  

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/24/navy-recommends-reinstatement-fired-carrier-captain-brett-crozier/3023380001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/07/navy-fired-defamed-my-friend-over-coronavirus-letter-column/2960627001/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper