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What's happening in some countries with what appears to be rebound is concerning enough. The U.S. hasn't even gotten through the first wave and things are coming unglued. The rhetoric and absolute B.S. from "the Podium" would....like most of the diarrhea that's had to be swallowed for the past 4 years, would be laughable ....if it weren't so SAD ! Absolutely NO LEADERSHIP. I can't comprehend it ! State senators claim they don't have the support they need and from the Podium: Blame, finger pointing. outright lies (if you believe the true experts), and daily "blowing of smoke" up the countries ass ! If "You Know Who" were a ranking officer on a battleground - He'd be the 1st "casualty" !
The U.S. especially, at this cross-roads, needs country wide comprehensive testing at all three levels. The individual states are crying for help, support and particularity now, test kits. The White House; like everything else it "touches" is continuing to do what they do best - turning this too, into a pissing contest. Well: if it smells like .........you know the rest !
The big worry for the Trumpers - as interviewed last week at their gun-totin' demonstrations - the guy that was bitchin' about not being able to buy paint, lawn-seed and fertilizer. And my favorite. The woman who stuck her head out of the vehicle window, for the TV camera, parted her hair and was whining about not being able to get her roots dyed. Are you F'n serious ? The minds of gnats........and I apologise to that species of the insect world which, ironically, will probably inherit the earth !
T!he cork is about to pop, my friends......and it is NOT going to be Champagne !

100's of thousands of Migrant farm workers come to Canada and the U.S. each year to work our fields, ensuring our food supply is mainatained. Approx. 350,000 to Canada alone.
The latest from "the Throne" : A further restriction to Mexican migrant workers....... "His" favorite topic,recently lost amidst the current news. More like a "typical" deflection from the real crisis.
Conversely; Canada recognises the critical part that these foreign workers play in putting food on our tables. Canada is allowing these workers to come to Canada conditional on a closely monitored quarantine period and - Canada's health care system applying to these essential workers., as it should.
Seems like a simple solution as far as the U.S. is concerned.
1) Step down from the Band-Wagon and let these workers into the States to provide for the continuity of the food supply,
2) Do not let them in and watch food prices go through the roof due to severe shortages, or
3) "Swords to ploughshares" The unemployed "Gun totters" that are complaining about their "civil rights" can be conscripted to "work the fields" ! Then they can start earning an income (which could for the interm be tax free) while additionally allowing them to return to their disenfranchised normalsey so they can get their (as reported), hair-cuts, petacures, paint, lawn-seed and enjoy their gun-ranges and bowling alleys".
Ironic: Migrant workers have historicaly been a vital labor necessity (Canada & the U.S.) because "nobody else" wants these jobs.
It's horrifying to wach U.S. news video of thousands of acres of fresh produce being left to literally rot in the fields due to no man-power to harvest it, a current lack of infrastructure to get it to market and more specifically the reduction of retail and wholesale purchasing due to the economiic crisis. In my small agricultural town, thousands of liters of raw milk being dumped for similar reasons.........while millions around the world are starving....to death! Sadly, the logistics to redirect this "waste", is impractical/impossable to implement and is simply being plowed under or sprayed on fields, as fertilzer. As if we don't already get enough of that, on a daily basis !
This is a particulariy good example of why centralization of food processing - massive plants for beef, poultry and pork (as the most obvious), is the preverbial Pitbull biting us in the ass and is potentially going to see us as the dogs breakfast, if there's not a revision to the food industrialization.

"...according to three industry representatives familiar with the decision, the upcoming ban will exempt seasonal foreign farmworker visas..."

www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/trump-s...n-coronavirus-197755

Bill

I see that an outbreak of Covid has occurred at the Cargill meat processing plant in Alberta Canada. They will be shutting the plant down shortly for a deep clean. "Shortly", so that the cattle and meat currently at the plant can be processed first? Cargill meat processing is the third largest slaughter house in Canada. This ones going to hurt.

Last Friday the company I work for found a production worker with the Wuhan Flu. They're shutting down for two weeks as well. That puts several hundred folks out of work.
Bill

Sorry to hear that ! Does that mean you're locked in for 2 weeks or do you believe they caught this early? With some time on your hands now, we expect to see some of your artistic talents prevail. Perhaps a mini Easter Island in a corner of your yard !

A week ago the Cargill meat processing plant in High River, Alberta, discovered 38 cases Back in March, one worker at Harmony Beef in Balzac tested positive.
Who's up for a nice veggie platter?