Every worker has covid at one US farm on eve of harvest

[Chosen Daughter]

Every worker has covid at one US farm on eve of harvest
Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg Published 11:33 am EDT, Friday, May 29, 2020

All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for covid-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell ill in neighboring Salem County. Almost 170 were reported to get the disease at a tomato and strawberry greenhouse complex in Oneida, New York.

The outbreaks underscore the latest coronavirus threat to America's food supply: Farm workers are getting sick and spreading the illness just as the U.S. heads into the peak of the summer produce season. In all likelihood, the cases will keep climbing as more than half a million seasonal employees crowd onto buses to move among farms across the country and get housed together in cramped bunkhouse-style dormitories.

https://www.sheltonherald.com/business/article/Every-worker-has-covid-at-one-US-farm-on-eve-of-15303189.php

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/every-single-worker-has-covid-at-one-u-s-farm-on-eve-of-harvest

[Chosen Daughter]

This wasn't the year for business as usual.   I have said this before.  Trump should have never made exceptions in his immigration EO.  And our local governments also.  Like here in Washington.  Governor Inslee hasn't even addressed the problem of migrant workers.  And its a huge problem.  He's like a Nazi stopping other businesses from opening.  But don't say anything about migrants who came across the southern border.  Got on busses and came to every rural community where they bunk together and share the COVID.  And its on our produce.

[Smokin Joe]

Peak of the summer produce season?

In May?

Sheesh, we can still have frost here for a couple of weeks.