Not good...
Farmers forced to kill hundreds of thousands of pigs as meat packing plants across the country close
‘This is our biggest crisis ever’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/farmers-kill-thousands-of-pigs-coronavirus
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West Liberty Foods reported 52 of its 994 employees at its meat processing plant in West Liberty have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday.
That tally represents a jump from 39 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Thursday, as shared in a letter plant Manager Tom Alberti sent that day to employees and community members.
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Indiana Packers To Shutter Delphi Facility, Majority Of State’s Pork Processing Now Halted
BROCK TURNER
Farmers are left with few options with what to do with live, mature animals.
Another Indiana pork processing facility is closing due to the coronavirus. It’s a move that will place additional pressure on the pork pipeline.
The Indiana Packers Corporation will suspend operations Monday at its Delphi processing facility, according to a letter sent to farmers Friday. It says the move responds to “an increasing number of positive tests of COVID-19 in neighboring communities and reports that Indiana is closing in on the expected peak of infections.”
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According to data collected by FERN, as of April 24 at 12pm ET, at least 73 meatpacking and processed food plants have confirmed cases of Covid-19, and at least 15 meatpacking plants and three processed food plants are currently closed. At least 3,581 workers are confirmed sick and at least 17 have died
https://thefern.org/2020/04/mapping-covid-19-in-meat-and-food-processing-plants/
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Now Brazil too...
Brazil JBS workers catch COVID-19 in latest meat plant outbreak
Comment: what is going on? Is it in the meat? I’m starting to wonder if plants are being deliberately sabotaged. But I also have wondered that about churches, conferences, and nursing homes. It seems like too many cases all happening simultaneously. I honestly don’t know what to think.
Illinois coronavirus: Stunning new numbers for COVID-19 cases in IL nursing homes
By Chuck Goudie, Barb Markoff, Christine Tressel, Ross Weidner and Jonathan Fagg
Friday, April 24, 2020 6:38PM
CHICAGO (WLS) — New data from the Illinois Department of Public Health shows COVID-19 cases grew exponentially since last week. Coronavirus cases are now in more counties and more facilities.
“All of these sort of group... communal settings are opportunities for COVID to spread very quickly, and it’s in a vulnerable population,” said Dr. Susan Bleasdale, Cheif Quality Officer and Infectious Disease Specialist for UI Health.
According to new state data released Friday and examined by the I-Team, corona-virus cases at long term care facilities more than doubled the past few days; from 18,60 cases to more than 4,200. The number of deaths has also surged from 286 to 624.
There has been a 67 percent jump in the number of infected nursing homes in Illinois. More counties have nursing homes with COVID-19 cases than just a few days ago.
“Air in motion” in confined spaces. “Dokima” (document) the “air in motion”
1 John 4:1, Eccl 1:9