FYI just saw (6am ET) on a Fox ticker that Tysons and 4 other meat packing plants were shutting down in the US, workers are infected with Covid so if you need chicken or Beef this morning would be the time to do it, I didn't see anything about Pork but it's just a matter of time.
Quoting: M R E (Via mercurynews, MediaNews Group)
"Tyson, one of the world’s largest meat processors, suspended operations at its Columbus Junction, Iowa, pork plant this week after more than two dozen workers contracted Covid-19 there."
Three Meat Plants Shut in Iowa and Pennsylvania as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads [
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"Reduced meat output from the shutdowns threatens to tighten supplies of certain products at a time when demand is rising at grocery stores as the country battles COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus."
Some JBS Meat Packing Employees In Greeley Afraid To Go To Work [
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"Hundreds of workers are staying home each day from their jobs at the JBS meat packing plant in Greeley, after reports of positive tests for coronavirus on some employees."
More Than 800 Greeley Meat Packing Plant Workers Call Off as Coronavirus is Confirmed Among Employees [
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"About 500 people called off in the morning and another 400 did not go to work in the evening, said Kim Cordova, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7."
Sioux Falls meat-packing plant named COVID-19 'cluster' [
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"Eighty workers in the Smithfield plant have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus."
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