Comments on: Food Supply Chain Collapsing; Trump Halts Plant Closures

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:01:30 +0000

In reply to Wil.

Which brings to mind another aspect of this very troubling story………….

How are WE (American consumers) supposed to trust meat that’s being processed in meat-packing plants teeming with Coronavirus by thousands of sick workers?!

The answer is plain. Trump and his corporate friends don’t give a d*mn. They are willing to risk the lives of millions of Americans all across this country for a dollar. If you get sick and die….oh well..! (shrugs)

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:32:11 +0000

CNN:
Meat-processing plant workers are concerned about President Donald Trump’s executive order that compels plants to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Meat plant employees are among America’s most vulnerable workers, and some say they expect staff will refuse to come to work.

“All I know is, this is crazy to me, because I can’t see all these people going back into work,” said Donald, who works at Tyson’s Waterloo, Iowa, facility. “I don’t think people are going to go back in there.”

Donald asked to be referred to by his first name only. He is currently recovering after testing positive for the virus.

“I’m still trying to figure out: What is he going to do, force them to stay open? Force people to go to work?” he asked.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:52:24 +0000

If our food supply gets interrupted we are all screwed. What will people do for food? This is starting to become a horror movie that has no ending.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 13:06:48 +0000

And now THIS…..the Executive order to keep meat-packing plants Open…..

[The five-page order is two-pronged. A senior administration official said earlier in the day, “from a (Defense Production Act) standpoint, it mandates that critical food supply operations stay open” and second, “from a liability standpoint, we will issue guidance coming from (the Department of Labor) that will provide additional liability protections.”

It was unclear what the liability protections might involve.] – ABC News April, 28, 2020

That right there tells you all you need to know about the so-called “ADDITIONAL liability protections.”

By all accounts NO actual “liability protections” were put in place to protect workers to begin with and that’s how the plants quickly became overrun with the virus in the first place.

So based on everything we’ve seen thus far I’d say whatever “liability protections are”issued” will be minimal at best AND voluntary based on “feasibility.” In other words hundreds of thousands of meat-packing workers are on their own.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:50:17 +0000

Thanks to COVID-19, America’s food supply chain is in disarray and at the risk of total collapse. […]-DJ

Bless you heart DJ. Okay I’ll be the one to bust Trump between the eyes. If I may, I’d like to modify your sentence just a little so that it reads:

Thanks to Trump’s rank incompetence, absolute depravity and total mishandling of COVID-19:

1. America’s food supply chain is in disarray and at the risk of total collapse. AND…..

2. We now have over 1 MILLION -that’s 1,000,000 – Confirmed cases of Coronavirus. AND……

3. More Americans have now DIED from Coronavirus than soldiers who died in over 10 yrs of fighting in the Vietnam War. The same war that the 5X DRAFT-dodging FAKE alpha ran from like a TERRIFIED rodent.