The idea that meatpacking plants will be back to 100% in 7 to 10 days is ridiculous. Earlier this week the CDC had said there are 119 meatpacking plants in 19 states with Covid among their staff. Those have been closed down. You can order them reopened, require the workforce back to the job, replace the dead ones, and all the rest. But until their money runs out and they're faced with eviction or starvation then a certain percentage of the workforce won't show up. That will delay returning to full production. And they'll be faced with a constant percentage of their workforce coming down with Covid and needing to be replaced. All of that is going to take longer than 7 to 10 days so it'll be a while before they're back to 100%. On the plus side there's no evidence that Covid can be transmitted through the food chain so there's that.
Yep. It’s a misstatement or fake quote. Iowa Gov. Reynolds was in on this and the goal is to get the plants on line with the understanding that they will operate at sharply reduced capacity, possibly for a long time.
The overall meat processing facilities were already too few before the CV stuff.
There has been record high numbers of pigs being raised in recent months.