MEAT before nurses. Trump uses DPA to order deadly coronavirus-spreading MEAT PACKING PLANTS open

[Maru Kitteh]

Just saw this on CNN.

SO - while Trump has steadfastly REFUSED to use the Defense Production Act to procure adequate N-95 masks, isolation gowns, gloves, face shields and other protective gear for healthcare workers and other front-line, public-facing industries in order to help them, you know, stay ALIVE - - - he WILL use the DPA to order factory meat-packing plants which have been the source of dozens of outbreaks across the country resulting in 10's of thousands of cases of CV19 and an untold number of dead - to stay open.


FFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK YYYYYYYOOOOOOOUUUUUU!! You worthless pile of extruded swamp excrement.

[MoonRiver]

1. Fatso gotta have his "bergers" and fried chicken, human lives be damned!

[SoonerPride]

2. I was just about to type the same.

He's worried about McDonald's running out of hamberders and he might actually have to eat something green.

[MoonRiver]

4. Exactly!

[Initech]

10. Garbage in, garbage out.

No wonder he's such an awful, ugly person.

[Retrograde]

3. Profit before people

The main reason he's doing this, IMHO, is to protect some of his supporters' profits.

And to keep himself in Big Macs.

[kimbutgar]

5. Tyson contributed a bit of money to his campaign obviously

[crickets]

8. +1

[IggleDuer]

6. The meat packers want the DPA used to limit their liability ...

... when their expendable employees die.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. +1000

[NBachers]

9. And when their expendable customers die

[Initech]

11. Forget the Hitler comparisons.

Trump is going full Stalin with this, and it's not going to end particularly well.

[Rae]

12. Wow! I thought he did use the DPA for PPE

I can't believe this! I mean, keeping the food supply chain running is critical, but so is PPE for everyone.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

14. He did invoke it for PPE I thought as well

I believe he ordered 3M to produce more N95 mask's for domestic use. If I remember right, it was around the same time he invoked it for ventilators. Late March/early April I think.

Also, keeping the meat processing plants is critical. If too many go down for too long, farmers will have to adjust their head count and once things pick back up we could see a multiple month shortage as production outruns supply. Animals take time to mature before they are ready. And farmers are not going to keep the current number around if they have no place to sell them.

[milestogo]

13. His sons and daughters should go to work there before anyone else.

Maybe Ijunka can design some meatworker fashions.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

16. I'm kinda surprised she hasn't yet come up with a designer mask to be manufactured in China.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

15. Hopefully everyone will cook their burgers to well done.

I haven't seen any announcements that cooking to rare or medium rare temperature kills the virus that could be coughed or sneezed onto the meat by sick people during processing.

[misanthrope]

17. Meat packers rank low on the socio-economic scale

and a huge percentage of them are immigrants.

The blood, sweat and tears of the poor provide the lubricant for the gears of American capitalism. Their hopes are the grist from its mill.

[librechik]

18. that is a disgusting thought

it's enough to turn a jackal vegan