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It's offline because someone at those plants got sick and the companies can't operate the plants safely or effectively without additional PPE or modifications.
by vonmoltke 6y ago
It's offline because someone at those plants got sick and the companies can't operate the plants safely or effectively without additional PPE or modifications. The vast majority of the workforce itself is fine, and people are not what is needed to restart the plants.
- ashtonkem 6y agoYeah, that’s kind of the problem. Sick people can’t make an economy go. Of course we can eventually re-open, we have to re-open eventually; we’ll starve if we don’t. But we have to actually make decisions and come up with strategies that’ll make it possible for us to re-open first. If we pretend that we can just reopen the economy without doing that first, people will get sicker and the economy won’t get better.
- HarryHirsch 6y agoThe plant is shut down because it's a safety hazard to operate in its current form. It's a transmission hotspot, 200 people have tested positive, according to the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/south-dakota-pork-plant-closes-after-200-workers-contract-covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/south-dakota...
- ashtonkem 6y ago6.5% of the plant is already sick, and that’s half of the states positive cases. That’s ... less than great.