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Americans don’t want to work on a farm which involves long hours of hard physical labor. I know quite a few retired from the medical field that aren’t going back to work. They said their skills are too rusty plus they are worried about themselves and their spouses getting infected.
I suspect it also involves a great deal of chemical exposure being it's industrial agriculture and involves massive pesticide spraying etc..
Even with "essential" businesses, employees that CAN work from home should be working from home. In many cases they may not be, but that is because the owners of such businesses care very little for the well being of their employees, and as long as they can fall on the gray or white side of the law little else matters to them. I think I work kind of in a grey area but with a company that is determined almost everyone (well everyone except those who keep the computer network and remote computers that allow us to do so running) should work from home.
Yes, this is true. Was not always like that. Farm labor is tough work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Here is how it was in the dustbowl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAVQaYdF6nQ
Lotsa respect for the dairy farmers. Milk twice a day, 365 days a year...no rest!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gardnr
Too bad all that trashed milk could not be evaporated into powdered milk. Or into cheese. Cheese was invented as a way to preserve excess milk.
It's a matter of contracts. Milk processors didn't renew some contracts (I do not know why). They have capacity.Quote:
Originally Posted by invisibleflash
Yes, it's hard work that never ends. In high school, I was the relief milker in the summer for vacation and the 1d/week off.:|( I'll take 20 hours standing in the operating room over dairy life!
The Oregonian this morning says that Oregon is testing 1,500 people a day. They could test more but the parameters are too restrictive. I don't get it. This fits what people in our hospital are saying. We just aren't testing enough people.
Andrew Cuomo explained it pretty well the other day. Seems there are lots of different manufacturers with proprietary reagents, etc. and none of them work together and no one's in charge, of course, and you can't get the supplies and reagents you need, etc. etc. Ah. the glories of capitalism. If we had a functioning federal government, they could have taken charge (Defense Production Act, anyone?) a couple of months ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonora Shepherd
I have family in PDX. Available testing materials are gone by 0815! Then they all wait for the next shipment. Don't listen to he who says there is adequate testing. It is blatantly untrue!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonora Shepherd
not many saying that.Quote:
I have family in PDX. Available testing materials are gone by 0815! Then they all wait for the next shipment. Don't listen to he who says there is adequate testing. It is blatantly untrue!
Testing either flat or declining from beginning of April I hear. That might be why the curve is flattening, test have flattened out. Now I could go a bit conspiratorial and say they don't WANT comprehensive testing as they want to keep the numbers artificially low. But could just be shortages. It's getting hard to keep attributing what looks like malice to incompetence but ...
There is more testing than there was, so if you want a test I'd try to get it since some testing centers have opened locally here for instance (I would try to get one with any sickness symptoms). And if you are high risk you are eligible for priority testing. But no comprehensive testing of the population is not going on at this point.
Add in reports of inordinate amounts of false negatives...
Apparently, there has never been a vaccine for a corona virus. Also, if the common cold is any indicator, natural immunities don't develop. Or am I way off here?