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safety inspections down to the bone, as well as other steps that reduce the safety of our meat supply (and probably other foodstuffs too). If the CV is currently bringing down employees associated w/ the meat packing industry now (30 dead, over 10,000 infected or exposed), then how bad was it before the CV hit, e.g., just how contaminated was/is our meat products in a 'normal' world vs. the CV world of today?

Seems like to me that if I were a cautious person, I would at least avoid getting as much meat / meat products as I did before (I don't really eat that much anyways) or perhaps concentrating in seafood (I am strictly guessing here, I haven't heard of any issues w/ sea food yet, I may be wrong). Or, if you going to continue to get meat / meat products, at least of course cook thoroughly etc., throw away the packaging w/o touching or contaminating other surfaces in the kitchen, make sure you wash your hands afterwards, etc.

That concerns me that he had to throw up an executive order keeping the plants open, when science is dictating that the contaminated plants be closed and/or decontaminated/etc. What's next (and I've heard of this tactic too recently), because the economy is so slow, rump, in a desperate bid to spur up the economy, will declare some major category of products obsolete or something like this (e.g., all cars before 1990 are obsolete, illegal to drive in the US), to spice up auto sales. Beware.

Be wary, be safe and careful all!

May 14.2020 6 pm approximately CST, In Bloomberg just now...

Trump Mulls Made-in-U.S. Order (4:15 p.m. NY)

The Trump administration is preparing an executive order that would require certain essential drugs and medical treatments for a variety of conditions be made in the U.S. The order comes in light of drug and device shortages during the pandemic. A draft of the order is circulating inside the government and was obtained by Bloomberg News.

“It is critical that we reduce our dependence on foreign manufacturers for essential medicines, medical countermeasures” to “ensure sufficient and reliable long-term domestic manufacturing” that prevents shortages and supplies to “mobilize our nation’s public health industrial base” when needed, says the nine-page draft.

because so much of it is kept whole and frozen and sold that way to markets that will filet at the market location. But the question might be along the line of some shellfish like shrimp and lobster where there is more "processing" going on with them for frozen consumer packaging (vs the whole/live ones that might be held in a market).

Here in PA, we have been targeted as having the most infections among workers in meat/poultry plants (and having the most plants as it is - although they are not the gigantic plants in terms of number of employees, like those that make the news).

Now if they can just get inspectors general to start dying they will be happy campers.

As of Tuesday, 123 USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service employees were under self-quarantine due to coronavirus exposure and another 171 field employees were absent from work due to a Covid-19 diagnosis, according to a USDA statement earlier in the day.

and they have continued to go to work as they need the money.

The virus is allowed to spread and having the perfect conditions to replicate, well off it goes!

Lots of death.

How incredibly sad!

The USDA now works for the meat packers and loggers, not the people of the USA. A few of Sonny's "soldiers" dying on the front lines won't bother him a bit.