Word spreads quickly in Salisbury — sometimes in English, other times in the Spanish or Creole of its immigrant communities. It’s how people learned about the young man who was hospitalized with COVID-19, or the father who developed an unrelenting fever and breathing difficulties and died.
The young man’s mother and the man who died were both chicken plant workers, a dominant employer in Salisbury, where Perdue Farms is headquartered, and throughout the Delmarva Peninsula.
“This is an intimate community,” said Amy Liebman, an occupational and environmental health specialist for a nonprofit. “We’re all connected here.”
The connective fiber has always threaded through the poultry industry, but perhaps no more clearly than now when its massive processing plants have emerged as hot spots of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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HOGAN won't release the info ? ARREST HIS FAT ASS.
ReplyDeleteWhile it was known much earlier than reported about the poultry industry cases, it was noticed at the hospital by tbe employees working at the hospital. Mums the word. Maybe Hogan should make others aware of the disaster at Salisbury Genesis nursing home and Anchorage nursing home. Employees are nei g lied to and tbe ni.bets are devastating on the amount of residents sick. You cant get in because of tbe quarenti e but it looks like a war zone! I k owns, I go there. If we had flowed Florida and Texas on how they handled nursing homes and. It flowed in Cuomo's of New York and Jersey our cases would have. Even different. Wake up Maryland - you need to think for yourself and stop being manipulated by FEAR
ReplyDeleteSince the beginning almost all coronavirus cases at local hospitals have some connection with the chicken plants.
ReplyDeleteIn mid April Allen Harim admitted that the coronavirus outbreak has hit its staffing levels so hard that it cannot keep up with production, slowing production by 50 percent.
Mountaire and Perdue have acknowledged cases in their plants but will not share the numbers of sick workers associated with their plants.
1:35 MD coronavirus website lists all cases in nursing homes residents and employees. Deaths and cases.
ReplyDeleteillegals from delaware's poultry plants! so you fools in wicomico just have to suck it up and have your constitutional rights infringed upon while the illegals run f'n wild! total bs!
ReplyDeleteHow many are minorities living 20 per house with poor hygiene habits?
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