Saturday, April 18, 2020

It's Money That Matters

“I understand business-friendly, but it’s hard to run businesses when you have workers getting sick and dying,” [Dr. Ashish Jha]  began. “What we need to understand is that if you want to be business-friendly, you have to be health-friendly first. If we can protect people’s public health, we can put in the things that keep workers safe and healthy. We can get back to business when it’s appropriate, but to try to just keep going, as though the pandemic doesn’t exist is obviously going to end up causing a lot of business harm and I think more importantly harming more people, particularly folks who don’t have a lot of reserve. It’s simplistic that somehow you can choose business over people’s health.”


“That would be great,” he began when asked about testing. “I would imagine if we had like ramped up our testing infrastructure the way South Korea did, the way that Germany has, we would have so many more options. We could keep plants open, we test people and just make sure that as long as people didn’t have the infection they could come in.”

“In very cramped quarters in plants like this, it’s very hard for even one infected person to not set off a whole chain of infections,” he added. “There are still things you can do: give people sick leave, a lot of things you can do to make this situation better. We just didn’t, and we see the consequences of that and it’s very unfortunate.”

"Sick leave"?  We can't afford "sick leave"!

Open business up ASAP, and watch the virus explode.  How is that good for business?  The discussion is about a pork processing plant that is now a "hotspot" for the virus.  Whether it infects the meat or not, I don't think I want any pork processed in that plant on my plate, thank you very much.

And how is that good for business?

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