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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:46 PM May 2020

Infection rates were climbing at Nebraska meatpacking plants. Then health officials stopped reportin

Source: Washington Post

For weeks, people in rural communities in Nebraska charted the rise of coronavirus cases at the state’s several meatpacking plants. First, there were handfuls, and then, many more.

As of the first week of May, public health officials reported 96 at the Tyson plant in Madison; 237 at the JBS plant in Grand Island; and 123 arising from the Smithfield plant in Crete.

There were other cases around the state, too, and the counts were climbing. At least three were reportedly dead.

Then the numbers stopped.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/infection-rates-were-climbing-at-nebraska-meatpacking-plants-then-health-officials-stopped-reporting-the-numbers/ar-BB13ZBxP?li=BBnb7Kz

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Infection rates were climbing at Nebraska meatpacking plants. Then health officials stopped reportin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Like I said, the virus is just starting, add to that the GOP is killing us on purpose Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1
I hope people are paying close attention to Wellstone ruled May 2020 #2
So that's why there's no meat at Costco? nt SunSeeker May 2020 #5
Omission of the truth is just another way of lying. Haggis for Breakfast May 2020 #3
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker May 2020 #4
Keeping the infection rates secret so workers and their families don't know exactly how dangerous highplainsdem May 2020 #6
those people live in a community that will have widespread infeciton now LymphocyteLover May 2020 #7
K&R demmiblue May 2020 #8
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. I hope people are paying close attention to
Tue May 12, 2020, 10:04 PM
May 2020

a story that popped over the week end. First,Smithfield Foods is owned by a Billionaire Chinese Fellow via a holding company known as WH Group. Second,the Chinese Government announce the purchase of several billion pounds of Pork from US sources because of the China Government destruction of millions of Butcher Hogs that were infected with a Hog Virus similiar to a virus that caused the destruction of millions of Piglets State Side a few years ago.

Notice the Talking heads crying about Pork Price increases. Golly,no one bitched when the Chinese bought Smithfield in 2014,Crickets. Everyone who I know from years in the Food Industry knew this day was coming.

So we kill Americans in order to feed China,think about it.

highplainsdem

(48,975 posts)
6. Keeping the infection rates secret so workers and their families don't know exactly how dangerous
Wed May 13, 2020, 06:41 AM
May 2020

each plant is, or whether their safety measures are helping at all.

Disgusting.

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