I Have Something To Say About Coronavirus / Covid19

I getting confused here. Another meat processing plant shut down to a large number of positive cases of Covid19.
Soooo... this plant had 373 employees testing positive, all were "asymptomatic!"
All those people have the virus and did not know they did?
The same occurred with other plants.
Most never knew they were.. suppose-to-be-sick!
I am lost now in my thinking. What is really going on? If they don't feel sick, not running a fever and the plant is operating well... WHY..would they not continue to work?

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4meAndyou · F

Cherokeepatti mentioned something very interesting in a post a couple of days ago. She said that Smithfield meat packing, (ham, bacon, lots of other brand names like Margherita and Carando), is owned by China. 32% of our farmland is owned by China.

President Trump said in a town hall on television last night that he wants all of our meat packing plants to re-open...after cleaning and implementing safety procedures...but Smithfield has refused a Presidential order.

It should be noted that you can test and receive a false positive quite frequently with the newer and faster antibody tests. The CDC recommends testing a second time to eliminate the possibility of a false positive.

Echoing · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I don't remember exactly where now but this was the third meat plant...first were like 400 cases, a few days ago, another plant of 900 tested positive. And most never knew they had it.
Yup, I remember a few years ago, Tyson sent 30,000 chickens a day to China to process and send back to us. How dumb I thought back then. That is a lot of dead birds.
Anyways, proper cooking kills all bad in any meat. 🤷‍♀️ I don't know... just really strange to me.
Like I said, .. stories change daily, first do this, then that... They have no idea, guessing as they go, so, Is the cure worse then the virus?

4meAndyou · F

@Echoing It's not the meat...it's the workers who are infected...so they need to halt work, clean the plant, and if the workers are not positive they can return to work...because we have no idea if their co-workers might die when infected.

Echoing · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I understand quite well.
I guess it is according to how long they have had the virus.
I am not so dumb that I do not understand.
Just trying to say, one minute you feel good, at work, and so does the rest of your co-workers..then to find out...you are sick..all 300 some odd , go home..stay there till …
And for cleaning the plant, they should of been doing that all along.
If I was a worker there and I had the choice of protecting others with a mask, and I have NO fever or signs of illness .. I would continue to work to pay my bills and feed my family. If the choice was mine. If I am not coughing... how will they catch it from me.