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Damn. I have been seeing more white folk walking around or jogging w/ no mask on at all. And even black folk having mini kickbacks and having air bnb functions. nikkas acting like it’s over when it’s not smh
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people took the less restrictions as no more corona and those who are saying #s are down in places like Florida are being duped. Check their pneumonia #s :skip:
 
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The union representing workers at a meatpacking plant near Los Angeles where at least 153 employees have come down with COVID-19 called on Thursday for the plant’s immediate closure, saying measures to control the outbreak were not working.

The outbreak has hit over 10% of the workforce at the Smithfield-owned Farmer John plant, said John Grant, president of the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.

“It’s dangerous and the problem with this is that it’s invisible, insidious and deadly,” Grant said. “And so what you do is when a shark is in the water, you pull everyone out of the water and you make an assessment of what is going on. That’s what has to happen right now, a sharp honest assessment of what is going on.”


The animal rights group PETA joined the protest, bringing its “Pandemic Pig” in a convertible for a drive-by protest.

Smithfield, owned by China’s WH Group Ltd, said in a statement it has “implemented aggressive measures” to protect workers’ health and safety, including temperature scanning, free voluntary COVID-19 tests, more personal protective equipment and plexiglass barriers on the production floor.

Meatpacking plants have proved devastatingly effective vectors of the coronavirus across the United States. About 30 plants temporarily closed in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and several other Midwestern states last month, according to the UFCW.


Pork and beef slaughter capacity have dropped by 30% to 40%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To avoid a further decline in a major food supply, President Donald Trump at the end of April ordered meat plants stay open during the pandemic.

Los Angeles County Commissioner Hilda Solis said in a statement the county has asked the Smithfield plant to provide a report by next week detailing its COVID-19 mitigation plans and what it is doing to provide support for the plant’s “workers, their families, and the surrounding Southeast Los Angeles communities.”

Smithfield is the world’s biggest pork processor.
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what a pos this dr is

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-campbellton-doctor-suspended-icu-1.5589855

The doctor linked to five other cases of COVID-19 in northern New Brunswick and who may have exposed at least 150 other people to the coronavirus has been suspended, the president and CEO of the Vitalité Health Network has confirmed.

The doctor, who is in his 50s, caught the virus when he recently travelled to Quebec. He then returned to work at the Campbellton Regional Hospital without self-isolating for the mandatory 14 days.

Two of the six people in the Campbellton region who have tested positive for COVID-19 are now in intensive care, Gilles Lanteigne said Friday morning.
 
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