Meatpacking Crisis Shows Limits of Human Sacrifice As Recovery Plan

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Donald Trump is calling on the American people to put the economy’s well-being above their own. On Tuesday, the president acknowledged that a mass reopening of nonessential businesses would likely accelerate the spread of coronavirus, which is already killing more than 1,000 Americans a day with most of the country on lockdown. Nevertheless, Trump insisted that a bit “more death” was a price worth paying for an immediate economic recovery.

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes,” the president said after touring a mask-making factory in Arizona. “But we have to get our country open and we have to get it open soon.” Trump encouraged Americans to view themselves as “warriors” whenever they leave their homes to engage in commerce.

To prevent essential workers from dodging this figurative draft, multiple Republican state governments are asking businesses to report furloughed employees who refuse to return to their jobs so that they may be denied any further unemployment benefits. To keep employers safe from lawsuits over endangering workers and customers, congressional Republicans have made liability protections for business owners their top demand in negotiations over the fourth coronavirus relief package. Finally, to ensure that concerns about workplace safety do not hinder the revival of corporate profitability, Trump’s Labor Department has declined to aggressively enforce CDC guidelines for private employers.

The moral problems with this plan are not subtle. Trump may want Americans to comport themselves as “warriors,” but he and his ilk will (once again) ride out the conflict far from the front lines. The trade-off he is proposing is not between economic revival and public health as abstract concepts, but rather, between higher rates of return for shareholders and lower rates of fatality for the (disproportionately nonwhite and low-income) workers whose jobs can’t be performed over Slack and Zoom. Put together the GOP’s positions on unemployment insurance, OSHA enforcement, and liability protections and you get a startling naked declaration of class war: Subordinate your family’s health to your boss’s profits or go hungry.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/coronavirus-meat-packing-plants-trump-reopen-economy-workers.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=di&utm_source=tw

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1. The last

paragraph says it all. As someone who has spent a life time in and around the Rural Areas of the upper Midwest. The back lash will be enormous in these Communities as the Legal Beagles start with the wrongful death Suites.

Do not think for a NY second that there will not be any. There will be Law Suits in the Billions against Cities,Towns and States as well as the Packing Plants.

[uponit7771]

2. +1, tort lawyers are licking their chops at the complete stupidity of companies opening without safe

.. workplaces

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4. Caught a Stephie Miller show

with Nance. Nance claims billboards for legal help with Covid Wrongful deaths along the Interstate in North Carolina .

[uponit7771]

5. +1, I would love to hear the first CEO say "the president said we have to do it" as a defense. Even

... field generals don't listen to Red Don without an official order through proper lawful channels.

Trump just puts crap out there like everyone works for his stupid cartel

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6. Seems to me,

when the wrong full death thing started with Asbestos in Minneapolis against US Gypsum with allowing Plant Employees to haul away waste Asbestos Rock and use it for their Driveways. Knowing there was a probability of health hazards and burying the evidence. Do recall at or around that same time,a major suit was filed in Libby Montana against the Mining Company that was the source of Asbestos bearing rock.

[lunatica]

3. He's using psychopathic language

Malignant Narcissism at its most eloquent.

If living your life cuts into my profits, then you should die for me to maintain my preferred way of life.

To him this is logical thinking. But because he’s incapable of actually understanding anything that isn’t in his own head he has no clue of how he sounds. In his mind he is being rational and reasonable.

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. Throw virgins into the volcano, throw workers into the capitalism/greed inferno...

Sacrifice human lives to the gods of the society.

The only difference is that the greed inferno pretends they won't die.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Cadet Bone Spurs calling for 'warriors' but, in reality, looking for civilian casualties.

Cadet Bone Spurs calling for 'warriors' but, in reality, looking for civilian casualties.

[pecosbob]

9. Time for a freaking Workers' Bill of Rights

I want Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Shumer on this straight away