Quote (RedFromWinter @ 25 Jun 2020 20:41)
Wonder how well the Teamsters union and employees are working with office folk on COVID procedures. I've worked on the tail end of ice cream production, and can't imagine the factory/warehouse I was in being able to meet guidelines without huge impact to output volume. And, kind of curious how temperature checking would work in a refrigerated warehouse environment. Skunk got in there once upon a time and sprayed, took ages to rid the smell.
Best masks, like the gazmasks ones, if you work in such specific closed spaces seems to be the only way IMO.
I means it's artificially optimized to keep the virus alive, it's totally insane.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 25 Jun 2020 20:51)
Yeah, the situation in our German meatpacking plants is a disaster. We have the covid situation mostly under control in the rest of the country, with 200-500 daily cases over the past month, but in recent days, there have been huge local outbreaks in several meatpacking facilities. These local outbreaks have added something like 2500 additional cases over the past 7 days and forced the two worst affected counties to go into lockdown again. Let's just say that the affected residents of these counties, particularly the owners of small businesses, are extremely PISSED...
The issue is not only caused by the conditions inside these plants btw, it's also that their workforce is made up almost exclusively by subcontraced workers from Eastern Europe who are living in extremely crowded, substandard appartments. The disastrous working conditions and exploitation of Eastern European workers is finally biting us in the ass. :rolleyes:
The fact they are living in same 'basements' is not helping at all, but i think the problem is mostly from the specific climatic conditions in the working area. Would be great to compare virus propagation in-between meatpacking plants of different countries.
This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Jun 25 2020 12:57pm