Why isn’t this happening with grocery stores?
Grocery stores have LOTS of people, within pretty close distance to one another....either while unloading boxes, stocking shelves, cashiering, etc.
Where are the high infection rates among grocery store workers? Or, if this same thing (a handful of infections and folks afraid to come to work and are staying home and making more than they are working) why aren’t we hearing about that?
Because grocery stores are not standing in the blood and guts of Tyson’s 190,000 slaughtered animals a day?
“Grocery stores have LOTS of people, within pretty close distance to one another....either while unloading boxes, stocking shelves, cashiering, etc.”
Couple of theories:
1) Production line food workers are very close to each other, for extended periods, indoors (ideal conditions for spread) - and they likely stand next to different people each day, so a hot person could infect many. I know, I’ve been one (for a week, until my wrists were worn out). For grocery workers, not quite as much of that really risky contact.
2) Most of the workers are illegals (or at least that’s been the case). Given that illegals often live in tight quarters, that could also be a factor.