58 percent of workers at Tyson meat factory in Iowa test positive for coronavirus
An Iowa Public Health Department report showed that more than 700 workers contracted the virus at a meat plant in Perry.
>FYI, Perry is about 20 minutes or so from Des Moines (largest city/business hub in Iowa).
(Masks) Why do so many Americans seem to have an issue with them?
Emory University Global Health and Law Professor Polly Price says the situation in America now mirrors what happened during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak.
At the time, the US Surgeon General advised everyone to make and wear their own mask - just as instructions are now on the Centers for Disease Control’s website, guides were sent to newspapers.
“It was up to state and local governments whether they were going to require their populations to do it - not all did,” she says.
Some cities levied fines for people not wearing them.
“There were very few court challenges, but they generally upheld the authority of local governments to have face mask ordinances,” Prof Price says.
“We do have a long tradition of individual rights, so even during the Spanish flu people would sue about the schools [being] closed. Or restaurants and bars were closed and people would sue about that and they routinely lost.”
In the same way that protesters have argued the lockdowns infringe their rights, much of the anti-mask rhetoric seems to come from the same well - American resistance to government mandates.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52540015
This meat thing is disturbing..almost seems like a specialized attack