It's not just the Smithfield plant, of course.
Workers in lots of industries aren't thrilled by their working conditions. Perhaps Custard thinks they all want to be there. Work makes us free, after all.
Smithfield is a Chinese owned company, they probably have all sorts of horrible conditions in their plants, but compared to a Chinese pork factory its probably amazing
Who owns Tyson?
The movie Fast Food Nation is pretty accurate - and it pre-dates that sale. Doesn't matter who owns Smithfield, they have to comply with FDA standards.
The issue here is that you have multiple families living together, one works at Smithfield, one works at another plant, etc...
The vector I'm worried about most here is the vineyard workers, the workers from various vineyards socialize together after work, so the virus hops from workforce to workforce.
I've found it fascinating how low the numbers of cases have been on the west coast compared to the midwest and east coast even though it pretty much started on the west coast
It started in China, as far as we know.
While there are plenty of connections from the Bay Area and LA to China (I have co-workers and my kid has classmates who were in Shanghai or Beijing over Christmas), New York still has more international connect than SF or LA, and into a more diverse set of communities - Italy, Iran, etc.. that were hit in the first post-Wuhan wave. If you compare the flights to SFO/OAK/SJC vs Kennedy/LaGuardia/Newark, it's paltry. So we weren't as badly positioned as NYC.
Then you have the fact that as a whole, Californians are more educated, work harder, and take things more seriously. When we heard about this virus, the people of the Bay Area just stopped going to work, without being ordered - compared to in Michigan where people didn't do anything and when they were ordered to stay home, complained and bitched, then got TOGETHER and protested in Lansing. It's not that we don't question authority - I mean, we as a state recalled our Governor in 2002. It's that we actually are able to take information, synthesize it, and figure out if our Government is messing with us, rather than just deciding anything coming from the Government is a prori a conspiracy to take our guns and precious bodily fluids.
Our leaders ordered the shutdown early, our citizenry was shutting things down even earlier. I made my first big grocery run to prepare for this thing in February, my son was out of school March 4 - the school shut down not because they decided to, but because nobody was showing up to school. Breed shut down SF officially on March 16 but there was a de facto shut down a week earlier.
If this sounds like a bunch of pompous BS - I refer you to the following thing I just read.
"I've found it fascinating how low the numbers of cases have been on the west coast compared to the midwest and east coast even though it pretty much started on the west coast". Stats don't lie. We did the work. Newsom did an awesome job.
To be fair however, one thing is that in a place like the Bay Area, a huge portion of the workforce can work at home, we have high levels of connectivity and infrastructure in place to deal with this. Even people unwilling to cook at home, Doordash was already ubiquitous, so restaurant closures didn't really throw people for as huge a loop.
Stay safe man - I see that Washoe County has 572 cases compared to Sonoma County's 172, despite us having 2x the population and being 60 miles from SF. Higher per capita in Washoe than any Bay Area County.
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