COVID-19 Superclusters Found In U.S. Meat Plants, Prisons and Nursing Homes | The Last Word | MSNBC

Oxford Sociologist Gina Neff says in order for the country to reopen, we have to do more to protect marginalized and low-wage workers while they're on the job. "Workers have to choose between feeding their families or making their coworkers sick. We're asking our essential workers to be, in effect, sacrificial workers." Aired on 05/07/2020.
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COVID-19 Superclusters Found In U.S. Meat Plants, Prisons and Nursing Homes | The Last Word | MSNBC

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  1. Like Jim Jones, Trump is trying to brainwash his followers into believing that it’s okay to die for him. And anyone who has a problem with that is clearly a “never Trumper.” Jim Jones demanded loyalty and dogmatic obedience from his followers at Jonestown, and Trump expects nothing less from his cultists..

    1. Trump also has Jim Jones’ “woe is me, everyone is out to get me” cult leader schtick.

    2. David J
      *YOU’RE THAT GUY WHO CAN’T ACCEPT THAT YOU GOT FOOLED BY MAINSTREAM PROPAGANDA COMMENTATORS…*
      *”SUPER SPREADER CLUSTERS”???…*
      *NOW I’VE HEARD EVERYTHING…*
      *NEXT WEEK FAKE NEWS WILL TRY ANOTHER WAY TO JUSTIFY THE SOCIAL MONITORING AND DATABASES OF CITIZENS AND THEIR “CONTACTS”…*
      *SORRY GUYS, NO THANKS, NOT INTERESTED…*
      *SUPPORT CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR FAKE NEWS OUTLETS WHICH ATTEMPT TO DECEIVE THE MASSES…*

    3. Yep, -forget the Kool Aid , Dump has been handing out the LIESOL and pretty soon his deranged cultists will be drinking it down.

    4. I agree but Hitler also knew how to do this. Not all wanted to die for Jim Jones but couldn’t get away, because he wanted them dead too, which reminds me of Trump forcing people to work at the meat plants. I have heard that most of the workers at the meat plant are immigrants and looking at the footage, it looks that way. A lot of Trump voters voted for him to get immigrants out of the country and build a wall, that is still not built, to keep them out, but now they want them to die for them, so they can fill their fat bellies and the same with Trump. They want to keep just enough immigrants to do the hard work, that as one man needing fruit pickers put it – American bodies wasn’t built to do this work, after a couple of hours they quit. What nonsense, no ones body is built for hard work, it becomes that way from having no choice and doing the hard work for spoiled Americans. Why are Americans not boycotting this meat to help the workers? What you hear from them is – can I get infected by eating it, no solidarity. Had this happened in my country, no one would buy that meat, there are lots of vegetarian products made to taste like meat that people can eat instead and get healthier. By the way why is it Trumpers always write with all capital letters::) Stay safe David!!

  2. Trump must understand that consumer confidence is integral to a strong economy. And consumers won’t feel confident until they feel safe. Consumers drive 70% of GDP. If trump wants to “open” the economy he needs to initiate and implement a national COVID 19 strategy while utilizing the national supply chain.

    1. He won’t do it because apparently, he doesn’t have critical thinking skills and he doesn’t like to read tell me how’s that working for you?

    2. if you do not have a job, you do not pay taxes,you do not buy stuff, your economy goes backward,

    3. @Gary Galt wow, so original, so you gonna sit there and w8 for the Democrats to tell its ok?

  3. I could see a responsibility bonus if it was just a common cold.But this is killing and maiming at a real high percentage.

    1. Gary Moore yet people are killing them selves and getting arrested for taking care of there family

    2. @Gary Moore You didn’t even *read* the comment to react this way. That isn’t what was said at *all.* Clearly anyone can comment here.

    3. Really high percentage? Within that high percentage, tell me how many of serving politicians or celebrities have died as result of this outbreak? 10? 1,000? 10,000? Or is it close to zero? A deadly virus does not discriminate…apparently.

  4. Not like anyone will listen to me, but hey…. POTUS basically told the American people “go eat cake.” So… yeah. Sideways kinda things incoming.

    1. Joseph Matuszak
      Donnie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake. It pairs nicely with a Lysol cocktail and a bowl full of hydroxychloroquine tablets.” Chump.

  5. Keep the plants closed. You can eat fruits and vegetables, pasta, rice and beans to get all the proteins you need 💚🍉🍇🥒🍌🍏🍓💚

    1. G – That may be true but it just ain’t the same. Keep the plants open but not with sick workers. Granted the production will be reduced but there will be production.

    2. That’s right. How do we think this virus got started to begin with? Why is it the *meat plants* are so infected? No matter the risk some people want to stuff their faces with animals. 🤢🤮

    3. Until these so called ‘super clusters’ start happening at fruit and vege farms then theyll be shut down as well. No meat, no fruit, no vege’s. Sounds like full spectrum dominance over the food supply industry. But im sure the gov will have camps that will be available for us all.

    4. @jon dogg Much more unlikely, simply because people work outdoors. Anyway, we can always eat raw bats, oh well.

  6. Is meat from these plants safe? If the people who pack my meat are all dying of this thing, what keeps ME from getting it when I buy the product?

    1. It’s a choice, a gamble, eating the meat that could be infected or starve to death, those are your options. Personally starving to death is far worse then any virus

    1. @CH ‘What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening’ – Donald Trump

    2. @molson12oz let’s see what you say or do when you’re family is threatened. You are moron

    3. Fox News is where I first learned the researcher in France expanded his study from 40 patients to 1060, I think. MSNBC is where I learned that democrats are willing to deprive people of medication in order to add to the death count.

  7. Doc ‘Babbling’ Brix: “I’m very scrupulous about washing hands, social distancing, protecting the most vulnerable amongst us. That’s why we don’t wear masks or social distance amongst ourselves or the President! Which is why so MANY Americans, states, counties, and municipalities are following my excellent example! Which is why we have EXPLODING coronavirus cases and deaths!”

    1. @Wendell Ellis Edwards Democrat controlled states make up around a 10th of infections from Coronavirus.

      Try again.

    2. Deaths don’t explode. The only thing exploding around here is your effeminate imagination.

  8. Democrats: Put the least among us first to make us all strong.
    Republicans: Put themselves first, prey upon the weak, pretending to be Christian and patriotic, while they weaken and destroy us with their ignorance and avarice.

    1. @Danny Burke shelter in place in this context, to my understanding, means just that. In place. You can go into the sunlight. Just wear a mask.

    2. @Ebony Filly well, I was hoping God would do something about this president as well.

    3. @Elizabeth Ayres a mask is more hazardous to you than helpful, you think they want you heathly, they get money for you getting sick. Bye

    4. @Danny Burke I make my own and wash them. Don’t be rediculous. I know Trump wants us all dead….more for him. More what, I’m not sure.

  9. if the dead are warriors, then the USA owes the families COMPENSATION! just like they were on active duty in a war zone.

    1. From what I heard most are immigrants and the footage I have seen looks like this is true. That is sickening, people who voted for Trump did it because they wanted these people out and a wall built (which still hasn’t happened) so no more would come in, but it’s okay to have them risk their lives and even die for you (meaning Trump and his voters), so you can get meat on the table? Republicans are disgusting people! Now Trump calls the immigrants warriors? Drag him into one of these plants and have him working along side with them:) Hoards of people should be dragging him out of the White house, why are they not?

    2. All of us are warriors, not just the dead. Also, active duty in a war zone get hazard pay. …as for those who die and can claim their LIFE INSURANCE, that is where compensation comes from. …….did any of the dead from COVID have life insurance? No? Okay so no compensation.

    3. @MissWitchiepoo health workers are more likely to be H1B (whatever it is called) visa eligible. So seeing immigrants here is not problematic. Plus, our education system makes our kids stupid so they are not likely to make it into healthcare.

      The wall is being built right now. A month ago it was up to 160 miles. Now 300 I think he said.

      If the immigrants don’t want to work and risk their lives, then they can stay at home and twittle their thumbs. …actually, immigrants are more likely to be in the hotspot of NYC because no self-respecting American would touch that place with the paychecks they receive.

      Hopefully this resolves your misunderstanding of the issue, Mademoiselle.

      🙂

      Have a wonderful day!

    4. @Brian Hack You ever been active duty in a war zone? I’m a 3rd-generation veteran and members of my family have been. You really don’t have a clue.

    1. Uncle? Mother, father, child, grandparents, neighbors, friends and so on, and so on
      BUT too bad, GET TO WORK! Unfathomable

  10. Trump doesn’t care about lower income working people getting the virus. He also wants to take away their Healthcare.

    1. Fred Feldman if you work in a meat packing plant you have to prepare to die at this point. Don’t deny the truth

    2. 75000 plus dead Americans agree. Remember he wasn’t left with test, good tests for a virus that didn’t exist 3 years ago. And who didn’t fix the “empty cub-boards” in the three years it’s been his responsibility to do it. Those that do see it are willfully ignorant. Amazing how it’s always a hoax when not good but the word of god when it’s good. America 2020 a country in decline rotting away from the inside. A media report that is bad for trump is fake news. That same media with a good report of trump is the truth. Which one is it? Is the media fake news or are they not. Can’t have both ways. Can’t pick and choose.

  11. The rich believe the poorest in society are just cannon fodder. In the past they were true cannon fodder. Now they are being used as fodder to the virus. In their minds there are always more poor people ready to work for little pay.

    1. This is the remark of someone who is not an American. In America we do not begrudge the wealthy. It is a person’s *character* that determines their behavior, not the amount of money they may have.

    2. I wonder what tenderloin price will rise to when you factor in the death benefits of the poor soul that brought it to the grocery store shelf.

  12. Why go to the trouble of calling it a “Responsibility Bonus” if not to obscure the danger to which these workers are deliberately being subjected? Are the Directors planning to work side by side with them in order to show their OWN level of responsibility?

  13. The Tandoori Turd snorts Adderall and has access to the nuke button demand he be drug tested.

  14. THEY NEED TO REMEMBER THEY ARE EATING THAT MEAT AND HANDLEING IT…!!! PEOPLE DEAD CAN’T CUT YOU’RE MEAT…!!!!

  15. God forbid that someone in the WH should wear a mask. Gosh, it might indicate there’s a virus loose and we wouldn’t want to publicly admit that, would we?

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