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In reply to the discussion: CDC, FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. Here's what it says. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)70. More than 640 known cases as of tonight, "country's"
biggest coronavirus hot spot." I didn't realize the amazing history of that plant, though.
Before the Smithfield pork factory in Sioux Falls became the radiating core of South Dakotas coronavirus outbreak, with more than 640 cases linked to the plant, it had been a kind of beacon of American prosperity for tens of thousands of employees who landed on the high prairie from Africa, East Asia and Latin America. But the opportunities were not obtained easily.
For more than 100 years, people fleeing war zones and abject poverty have put in long hours at the eight-story plant that churns 24 hours a day alongside the tree-lined Big Sioux River.
For more than 100 years, people fleeing war zones and abject poverty have put in long hours at the eight-story plant that churns 24 hours a day alongside the tree-lined Big Sioux River.
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CDC, FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. Here's what it says. [View all]
underpants
Apr 2020
OP
Please site any source that has claimed we need to stay inside for eternity as you say
TeamPooka
Apr 2020
#25
My original statement was in response to someone saying there may not be immunity.
Ace Rothstein
Apr 2020
#62
The problem is even people out in the middle of nowhere that participate in the overall economy
Blue_true
Apr 2020
#66
The kids will be a super vector and spread it from family to family insanely quickly.
NightWatcher
Apr 2020
#3
Yep, and perhaps this time with the country's food supply chain infected and shut down.
ooky
Apr 2020
#32
Ramping up test kits production? You mean they haven't started that yet? And going to wait May 1?
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#26
The "community assessment" in North Dakota two weeks ago was full speed ahead.
Blue_true
Apr 2020
#41