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Sunday 21 June 2020

Schools Factories Food - are they SAFE from Covid 19


Schools Factories Food - are they SAFE from Covid 19

Reckless Governance of a 'Make It Up' as you go along Prime Minister will continue to see Love Ones Die. Aided and Abetted by Governmental Incompetence. 
 
Boris Johnson 'sends millions back to work' as coronavirus lockdown is lifted. The reopening of shops, school, pubs and the wider hospitality industry puts peoples lives at RISK. 

This reckless Tory regime plans to scrap the two-metre social distancing rule. The rate of transmission, or R number, is between 0.9 and above. Meaning the virus is spreading. 

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “Boris Johnson’s statement will cause working people a lot of confusion and anxiety. “The Government still hasn’t published guidance on how workers will be kept safe. So how can the Prime Minister –  tell people they should be going back to sites and factories? It’s a recipe for chaos.”

Hard work of isolation ‘could be lost if we rush out of lock-down’ – Sir David King, the former government chief scientific adviser, who set up the Independent SAGE group of scientific experts WARNS.



Our factories are NOT safe for a return to work. Our fast food restaurants are NOT safe to reopen. Our schools are NOT safe for our children. Scientific Test need to be done regarding the safety of our MEAT and the food we eat. Covid 19 can be transmitted via meat and packaging. Could the slaughterhouses of the WORLD be spreading the coronavirus?

Just Days ago a Welsh chicken factory closed over Covid-19 safety contamination issues. 
 
Fifty-eight coronavirus cases confirmed among workers at 2 Sisters Chicken Factory facility on Anglesey. The firm supplied all of the main supermarkets, fast-food chains such as KFC and provided meat for Supermarket Ready Meals, Hospitals, Care Homes and School Dinners. Public Health Wales said 58 Covid-19 cases had been confirmed at 2 Sisters Food Group’s facility in Llangefni, Anglesey, which employs about 560 people. In 2017, after a undercover investigation raised questions about food standards, the company suspended production at its West Bromwich chicken plant for five weeks in order to deal with the problems.

In the same week - three other 'Food Meat Factories' in England have closed after 250 workers tested positive for coronavirus. The Unite Union said it was aware of suspected outbreaks at five other sites across the UK. A meat processing site owned by Asda in West Yorkshire became the third food plant in 48 hours to confirm an outbreak after about 150 workers fell ill with the virus. The Kober plant, which supplies bacon to Asda supermarkets and employs more than 500 people, has closed. The company also provides meats for Greggs and Subway. 

In Wrexham, 38 staff have tested positive at Rowan Foods. The company makes food for supermarkets across the UK. The cluster of new cases in food processing plants will raise serious concerns about a potential outbreak similar to those seen in France and the US. In the latter, as many as 25,000 meat and poultry workers are reported to have contracted Covid-19 and spreading it within the community with at least 91 deaths so far.

Three workers died from coronavirus after a small outbreak at a meat processing plant in South Yorkshire last month. The family member of one of those who died accused Cranswick, the company that owns the plant, of failing to adequately protect workers, citing a lack of face masks, a lack of physical distancing, and the provision of only the statutory sick pay of £95.85 a week for those too ill to work.
 
A Guardian analysis last month found that almost half of the Covid-19 hotspots in the US were linked to plants where poultry, pigs and cattle were slaughtered and packaged. The outbreaks led to calls for urgent reforms to an industry beset by health and safety issues. The United Food and Commercial Workers union said recently that at least 44 slaughterhouse workers in the US had died from the virus and another 3,000 had tested positive.

KFC worker ‘collapsed’ during her shift before testing positive for Covid-19. Later revealed, served unlimited - 'untraceable customers'.

Anonymous reports from colleagues at the restaurant allege the woman tested positive for Covid-19. She collapsed while on shift on June 13 and paramedics were called to the scene of the Fast Food Restaurant in full view of panicking customers who then refused to buy food. 

 
The restaurant where the infected staff member worked is still open. Employees who wish to remain anonymous say they are still concerned about their own health and safety. They allege NO self isolation measures have been implemented since the diagnosis.

Public health officials in Germany are grappling with an outbreak among hundreds of workers at a meatpacking plant in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. At least 730 workers have tested positive at the Tönnies Group plant.

Bev Clarkson, Unite’s national officer for food, drink and agriculture, said: “The relaxation of social distancing has been brought in too soon; we predicted a spike in the meat industry. You only have to look at what has happened in America and Germany to know that it would happen here. Measures need to be taken now by the government to stop further spikes within the sector.”

In Texas, the fastest growing Covid-19 outbreak isn’t in Dallas or Houston or San Antonio, the state’s most densely packed metro areas. It’s hundreds of miles to the north, in the dusty, windswept flatlands of Moore County, population 20,000. According to data reported Monday by the state health department, 19 out of 1,000 residents in Moore County have so far tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19—10 times higher than the infection rates in the state’s largest cities.

So what’s in Moore County that’s making people so sick? One of the nation’s largest beef processing facilities, where huge armies of employees slice, shave, and clean up to 5,000 cattle carcasses a day. Last month, Texas health officials launched an investigation into a cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to the massive meatpacking plant, which is operated by JBS USA, a subsidiary of the largest meat processing company in the world, based in São Paulo, Brazil.

In recent weeks, beef, pork, and poultry processing plants across the US have emerged as dangerous new hot spots for the deadly respiratory disease, which can also cause damage to the heart, kidneys, and brain. Dozens of plants have been forced to temporarily halt operations amid skyrocketing numbers of cases and fatalities. According to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 5,000 plant workers in 19 states had tested positive for the virus as of April 27. In Iowa and South Dakota, close to a fifth of the workforce in the states’ largest slaughterhouses have fallen ill.

Witnessing a modern day version of the British Mad Cow Disease phenomenon - could the virus have started in our slaughterhouses?
 
It’s not just the US. Large Covid-19 clusters have also appeared in meatpacking plants around the world, including Canada, Spain, Ireland, Brazil, and Australia. “One, two, or three meatpacking plants—fine, you might expect that. But these outbreaks are clearly a worldwide phenomenon,” says Nicholas Christakis, head of the Human Nature Lab at Yale where he studies how contagions travel through social networks. “To me, that’s evidence that there’s something distinctive about meatpacking that’s adding to people’s risks of catching Covid-19.”

There’s been much talk over whether or not SARS-CoV-2 is actually “airborne”—meaning that it can remain aloft on respiratory particles smaller than 5 microns, as the measles virus does. A growing number of researchers who suspect the coronavirus can in fact be in these very fine particles, termed “aerosols,” as they wrote in a recent editorial in Aerosol Science and Technology. This would mean the coronavirus could be spread not just by an uncovered cough or sneeze but also just by regular breathing and talking. It would also complicate the current standard 6-foot rule for social distancing in the USA that the CDC and OSHA have recommended for their workers.

Meanwhile England's two-metre social distancing rule set to be scrapped following a hint from Chancellor Rishi Sunak. The measure is thought to be planned to come into place from July 4. 


A third of the workers at a factory in Tipperary tested positive, while the McDonald’s supplier was forced to temporarily halt production. 120 workers at the Rosderra Meats plant in Roscrea had tested positive for the virus. Also 350 workers at the plant, up to 140 were off sick. Rosderra is the largest pork-processing company in Ireland. One of Ireland’s biggest beef companies announced a Covid-related shutdown. Dawn Meats had temporarily closed its plant in Westmeath after workers tested positive for coronavirus. Dawn Meats produces more than 400 million burgers a year for McDonald’s outlets in the UK and Europe. In a statement, the company said that the plant had been closed.

 

We're not out of danger - We must send a warning not to end lockdown until safe to do so....

 

Frustration and desperation to return to normal life are not good enough reasons to lift the coronavirus lockdown and the UK is not out of danger yet, the public has been warned. The sun is out around the country, the days are getting longer, and I'm sure it's tempting for people to feel that they should go out. We can't emphasis enough that we are far from there yet...it won't take much for this virus to start increasing its transmission again and spread more widely.


 



The American President Donald Trump and Boris Johnson's criminal negligence allowed over 200,000 people to die. This is societal negligence of governance. Both leaders are enemies of the people and need to be removed from office. If a leader struggles to carry out tasks in government effectively.

This is their level of incompetence - Peter Principle



Pause For Thought....

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