The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

With the move to reopen the country, the problem with meat processing plants has expanded to other places of business which have high worker density and thus a high R0.  Again, it is not the density of the state that would be relevant, but the density of the company.  Rachel Maddow covers it here.  Among the many locations having to be closed is a USPS sorting facility that handles all of Colorado and Wyoming.  Amazon and UPS were mentioned as well.  There is a wide variety of other types of plants that have been hit, as well as some agricultural workers.

Rachel goes as far as to say this is the next wave.

The thinking solution would be more lines. moving slower, fewer workers spread further apart.  This would require larger  and more buildings.  This would imply less profits.  Doing this for essential functions seems to make sense, but thus far the companies and the administration have resisted it.  Dollars over lives again.

Thus far the National Guard has been turning convention spaces into hospital overflow, among other things.  Somebody might think of making essential services safe.

Cuomo as part of one of his daily talks suggested the rule of one.  In a dense working environment, all it takes is one contaminated worker and you have a community in outbreak.  I'm waiting for Trump to try to veto the rule of one.  He has done everything but.