It’s because, working closely, the employees easily spread the virus.
These plants are essential and weren’t ‘shutdown’ when everything else was.
All of this kind of stuff was discussed as possibilities every time one of these weird things popped out of China. SARS, MERS, Bird Flu, etc.
Those other ones never got that bad (SARS and MERS) throughout the entire world, and for whatever reason, CV-19 has got a lot more people way more concerned than the Bird Flu did.
Did the meat workers and everyone else get sick with the Bird Flu and just keep working? Or they took sick days (or died) and nobody really thought much of it. For all the talk that the Bird Flu killed so many more folks than CV-19, I’m guessing that it is the quick rate of increase that has folks spooked with CV-19. There are some animated charts on youtube that compare CV-19 with all the other big diseases since 2000 and it is pretty astounding.
Rush had a caller on who works in the business.
He says that the problem is one or two workers get diagnosed, and the rest all become terrified and refuse to report to work.
All the result of a steady, deliberate ChiCom propaganda campaign to terrify the workforce and collapse the food supply chain.
Trump needs to start countering this aggressively with FACTS about the virus.
Stuff like....oh, I dunno….98% who contract it do not die.