Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[liv2ski]

I read this morning that running at full steam that Sioux Falls plant produces 130 million servings of pork products a week. That place is like a portal to another gruesome dimension. Has to be completely horrifying in there on a good day.

Yup, me and the little piggies are happy about the reprieve for now.

[Buster Highmen]

All I got out of that was 'polybasic cleavage site '.

w0000t!

Maybe Greg should upgrade from 'hot Jersey babes".

[bobz]

See post 12582

Yeah, I guess I'm not reading the firehose of postings as thoroughly as some. Still, and this hadn't been mentioned specifically, it's pretty remarkable what one irresponsible business (a large percentage of the state's entire case total) can do for a whole state's case ranking. #46 to #18 in a half month (bypassing a bunch of states, most states, all of which increased their case rates) is quite an accomplishment.

[Mofro261]

All I got out of that was 'polybasic cleavage site '.

w0000t!

That was the important bit.

[iceman]

And, just to close the circle, Smithfield Foods is a Chinese-owned company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WH_Group

[Buster Highmen]

And, just to close the circle, Smithfield Foods is a Chinese-owned company.

That was one of the sources for pork products on Chelsea Clintons pizza.

[Rideski]

JBS in Greeley shut down, hundreds of the 6,000 that work there infected, two dead so far.
One of the dead is the uncle of a good friend.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/h...f-3a16fdccc077

[KQ]

From The Poke:


This guy couldn’t take any more of his relative’s Covid-19 conspiracies and his furious (NSFW) rant is quite something
Chances are over the last few weeks you’ve had the misfortune of coming across a family member or friend’s Covid-19 conspiracy theory.

Lots of people might choose to mute them, unfollow them, or maybe have a quiet word in their ear. Not this person though. He went next level and he did it in public and it’s a fabulous read.

Not always the sort of language we’d ordinarily approve of, but extraordinary times sometimes requires extraordinary measures.

[XXX-er]

I just want to know where is 5G in all this ?

[KQ]

Yeah, I guess I'm not reading the firehose of postings as thoroughly as some. Still, and this hadn't been mentioned specifically, it's pretty remarkable what one irresponsible business (a large percentage of the state's entire case total) can do for a whole state's case ranking. #46 to #18 in a half month (bypassing a bunch of states, most states, all of which increased their case rates) is quite an accomplishment.

Tyson Foods in Burbank WA has been the source of over half the cases in W2 and a great many in Tri-Cities.

Tri-Cities area Tyson plant sees cases continue to rise; will remain open

[goldenboy]

I read this morning that running at full steam that Sioux Falls plant produces 130 million servings of pork products a week. That place is like a portal to another gruesome dimension. Has to be completely horrifying in there on a good day.

One of the greatest moments in The Simpsons history:

[Mazderati]

Crunch crunch.

[MontuckyFried]

Let's hear it for South Dakota!! One of the two final holdouts (along with Oklahoma) on putting meaningful restrictions on the spread of the disease. And a tea-baggin' governor who (like the governor of Mississippi; who cooks up these talking points?) made sure to get a dig in on my fair state, something along the lines of "we aren't California!"

So, anyway, as of March 30 (NYT data saved to spreadsheet on that day), SD was ranked 46 out of 51 in case rate per population. A half-month later, they're ranked #18, with almost double California's case rate.

Apparently, a big source of the problem was a huge pork plant. Working conditions are generally unhealthy and bad there because, you know, FUCK YOU WORKERS!!! is the rockin' bootstrapin' ethic that supposedly Creates Jobs. Who could have guessed that unhealthy working conditions would lead to a disease outbreak, coinciding with a global pandemic?!?

Anyway, good luck guys. Maybe what needs to happen is a tax cut for the meat plant owners.

A whopping 6 deaths so far. Oh save us!

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[Ottime]

Let's hear it for South Dakota!! One of the two final holdouts (along with Oklahoma) on putting meaningful restrictions on the spread of the disease. And a tea-baggin' governor who (like the governor of Mississippi; who cooks up these talking points?) made sure to get a dig in on my fair state, something along the lines of "we aren't California!"

So, anyway, as of March 30 (NYT data saved to spreadsheet on that day), SD was ranked 46 out of 51 in case rate per population. A half-month later, they're ranked #18, with almost double California's case rate.

Apparently, a big source of the problem was a huge pork plant. Working conditions are generally unhealthy and bad there because, you know, FUCK YOU WORKERS!!! is the rockin' bootstrapin' ethic that supposedly Creates Jobs. Who could have guessed that unhealthy working conditions would lead to a disease outbreak, coinciding with a global pandemic?!?

Anyway, good luck guys. Maybe what needs to happen is a tax cut for the meat plant owners.

But I was just reading somewhere about American animal slaughtering services are tip top. Fuck. I think I read that here. Fake News.

[The AD]

Seems a little strange that we're seeing all these outbreaks associated with meat packing plants. Why is that?

[altasnob]

Sioux Falls Mayor says the virus spread at Smithfield is not necessarily happening at the plant itself, it’s happening when people leave the plant. He added that Smithfield workers speak more than 80 languages, with Hispanic and Nepali being the largest ethnic communities at the plant and in the city.

[iceman]

From The Poke:


This guy couldn’t take any more of his relative’s Covid-19 conspiracies and his furious (NSFW) rant is quite something
Chances are over the last few weeks you’ve had the misfortune of coming across a family member or friend’s Covid-19 conspiracy theory.

Lots of people might choose to mute them, unfollow them, or maybe have a quiet word in their ear. Not this person though. He went next level and he did it in public and it’s a fabulous read.

Not always the sort of language we’d ordinarily approve of, but extraordinary times sometimes requires extraordinary measures.

Sounds like the lady is in England. She should go out and burn a 5G tower if she's this worried.

[bobz]

A whopping 6 deaths so far. Oh save us!

That's perfect. And I didn't even need to make you up! They should put a sign in the lobby: "Employee death-free for the past 1 days".

[iceman]

"so far" is cute. At one point some guy in Wuhan said the same exact thing.

[MontuckyFried]

"so far" is cute. At one point some guy in Wuhan said the same exact thing.

Wuhan with its tightly packed population of over 11 million is a helluva lot different than BFE South Dakota.

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[iceman]

hey that's the largest city in sodak you're disparaging there

obviously different. also obviously the number's not gonna stay at six.

[KQ]

Wuhan with its tightly packed population of over 11 million is a helluva lot different than BFE South Dakota.

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I'm not so sure the loved ones of those who died because the virus was allowed to run rampant feel 6 is no big deal. Same goes for those who are sick and hoping they aren't numbers 7, 8, 9 ....

[Core Shot]

Sioux Falls Mayor says the virus spread at Smithfield is not necessarily happening at the plant itself, it’s happening when people leave the plant. He added that Smithfield workers speak more than 80 languages, with Hispanic and Nepali being the largest ethnic communities at the plant and in the city.

Nepalese in Sioux Falls?

I learned two things today. Winning!

[bobz]

Sioux Falls Mayor says the virus spread at Smithfield is not necessarily happening at the plant itself, it’s happening when people leave the plant. He added that Smithfield workers speak more than 80 languages, with Hispanic and Nepali being the largest ethnic communities at the plant and in the city.

Indeed, it's possible that some or even most of the spreading occurred outside the plant. The state's nearly-worst-in-the-nation non-efforts at suppressing COVID spread would have been in non-effect both inside and outside the plant. Unhealthy conditions inside the plant, as reported by numerous employees, probably didn't help, though.

Also, nice try there with the they're mostly ethnics excuse that the mayor seems to be aiming for. California has lots of ethnic groups; I think it's majority non-white.

[old goat]

This discussion is starting to sound a little like Idiocracy. "What if we try to freeze it out?" "Yeah, my buddy's buddy froze once and he came back to life. It could work!" "I know they freeze people for heart surgery" "Yeah, lets Wim Hoff this Covid into submission".

JFC! Y'all realize how dumb that sounds? I mean, obviously heat is the answer! Lets throw infected people into a volcano! If they die, they would have died anyway, but if they live......

Nobody has said cold will treat the Covid. One person raised the idea as a question. The rest of us are saying it won't work and sharing stories and information about hypothermia because, like you, we have nothing better to do, but unlike you, aren't being a douche about it.

My story--one my first patients as a 3rd year med student was a 2 year old girl who drowned in a Detroit pool in November. It was believed that she was submerged for 20 minutes. She was pulseless in the ER and underwent CPR for an hour before they called off the CPR and pronounced her dead. All lines and tubes were removed and the resident went to talk to her family. He couldn't bring himself to do it and went back to the ER bay where she lay alone, breathing and with a pulse. She went home 2 weeks later, a normal 2 year old. The attending on the case was Dr. Marty Nemiroff, who reported her case and others in the first publication on the subject of survival after cold water drowning and the origin of the idea that you're not dead until you're warm and dead.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/07/a...flex-plus.html