Well it’s started

[nelly55]

Just sat having my coffee,and put news on for weather,and heard newsreader asking why meat plants getting infected.You just know what’s coming.

 

[Lazy Sod]

It's because they're handling meat, the filthy dirty stuff that couldn't possibly have been eaten by our ancestors for hundreds of thousands years.

 

[76masseyman]

Close proximity of the workers I guess, bit the same if you play tennis !!

 

[Happy]

I would guess that the cooler temperatures in much of an abattoir could also have something to do with it. Virus will survive longer which combined with close working proximity will lead to workers being exposed to a higher viral load.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Interesting analysis of the meat plant issue. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53137613.

 

[tepapa]

Because some poor buggers have had to keep working through the lock down to feed others. I'm sure the abattoir workers would have preferred to be on furlough.

 

[Grassman]

I thi k it's a actually a good thing in that it may make some aware what is round the corner later in the year.
This virus hasn't gone away and it seems to like cooler temperatures.
The vast majority haven't yet had the virus so be prepared for more lockdowns later

 

[Grassman]

There is an abattoir near us that has shut down with similar issues this week

 

[farmerm]

It is because abattoirs replicate a winter environment, an environment where cold and flu viruses can remain viable much longer outside a host... its a sign of what we can expect once we move back into flu season Still on the positive side it will be a legitimate excuse to avoid the in-laws at Christmas whilst under the next lockdown....

 

[Still Farming]

The unions need to jump on this quick or Vegan activists will possibly.

 

[caveman]

Shame they weren't splashing the chlorine about.

 

[primmiemoo]

BBC fact checking is a section of the BBC that is consistently doing good work.

 

[JP1]

It is indeed a worry

The giant meatpacking company at the heart of Germany's new coronavirus hotspot

A fresh coronavirus outbreak in Germany has placed the country's massive meat processing industry under intense scrutiny, after more than 1,500 workers were infected at a family-owned slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia.

edition.cnn.com

 

[nelly55]

It’s time everyone understood that lots of people carried on working in all situations,especially those in food production but get little thanks.

 

[Bongodog]

Abbatoirs/meat packing plants are a perfect storm for transmission of covid and suchlike, cool moisture laden environment, just think of how much water is sprayed about for washing down and cleaning, plants designed with staff stations close together which cannot be moved apart, lots of language difficulties and staff who are reluctant to declare they are ill as its "no work no pay"
It appears that many of the German plants rely on immigrant workers who live in cramped hostel accommodation attached to their workplace.

 

[pgk]

The virus passes into body through moist membranes, think nose, mouth and in cooler temperatures our body naturally produces more bodily fluids which assist the transmission. Medical scientists predict second peak in October as the weather cools, we become more mucousy and hunker down indoors with poorer fresh air circulation.

 

[jondear]

Most of the workers locally that work at 2sisters can be found not socially distancing all the way through the lockdown in local high street!

 

[Macsky]

Is it a possible side effect of these plants just being too big!? Split the volume processed down between many more local plants and I bet there wouldn’t be the same risk, or the market monopoly!

 

[Plantpotfarmer]

I’ve heard that in the Netherlands farmers are getting the blame for covid spread. Apparently the hot spots there are also the areas where there’s more intensive farming/farming air pollution. Apparently it’s being investigated seriously. sounds like bull to me

 

[Dave6170]

On good morning britain now.
Veggie susanna reid trying blame meat consumption. Scientist explaining its purely down to the ideal conditions for covid