[Tilted Irish Kilt]

null and void :" Yeah. But the Chinese masters touring the facility a few weeks before the outbreak had absolutely nothing to do with it! "

But, remember, this travel by corporate officials occurred weeks after Trump cancelled airline transport from China.
How did they get there ?
Private, or corporate plane ?

Smithfield corporate had already notified that there would be a pork and meat shortage since they were shipping more product to China.
Last year, China already had a known pork virus that killed more than 1/3 of their new-born piglets, creating a shortage.
Now we have a coronavirus that impacts production workers and employees in processing plants, resulting in shut-down.

[rintintin]

the Chinese masters “

My understanding is that slaughterhouses around the country have been hiring mainly low-wage immigrants, of doubtful legality. Whether or not the owners are Chinese. There was a big raid on an Iowa packing house a couple years ago, it was filled with illegals. The owners weren’t Chinese.

My point: The issue here is corporations hiring nonEnglishspeaking immigrants , at dirt wages, instead of Americans. That has to stop. Focusing on the Chinese ownership of this particular plant is somewhat of a diversion from the immigrant-labor issue, because the owners of all the processing plants are doing it - AND THEY NEED TO BE FORCED TO STOP.