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Why are they taking out a FULL PAGE AD in the New York Times, to spread fear porn?
What's in it for them? You can't tell me they're spending that kind of money to scare people, out of the goodness of their heart.

Maybe they hope to set off panic buying, while they rake in the dough for their product -- or something.

They say that 4 employees have died "of COVID-19". I don't believe it. They probably died of something else, and were either asymptomatic carriers, or they had the antibodies because they received a flu vaccine in the past 10 years.

But even if 4 people died, a few points:

These are not small processing plants with 20 employees. This is NATIONWIDE for a huge agri-business conglomerate. How many employees do they have -- hundreds of thousands? How many Tyson employees die on a regular basis from car accidents, heart attacks, cancer, stroke, medical error, ѕυιcιdє? Statistically, they should have a couple of employee deaths every DAY.

Death always sounds terrifying and whatnot, but WELCOME TO EARTH. We're mortal. Men were punished by God with the punishment of having to work to support their families (women received two punishments: submission to their husband, and pain in childbirth) Frankly, many jobs worked by men involve a very real flirt with death every single day. For example, any man who drives to work.

And for the white collar nerds, you are probably shortening your life by about 10 years if you have a sit-down job. Science has proven it. Unless you take regular breaks every hour, keep your legs moving on purpose, use a Standing Desk, etc.

But my bull**** detector went off loud and clear with this Tyson situation. What does Tyson hope to accomplish with this ad? And what do they hope to accomplish by closing additional plants? To avoid "a few deaths"? Boo freaking hoo! What happens when REAL panic buying is set off, which will be 30X worse than anything we've seen so far (remember toilet paper, bread, eggs, milk, yeast?) because people will be genuinely terrified that RESTOCK MIGHT NOT HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON, at least not the next morning.

How many people will die in the ensuing RIOTS and STARVATION that will occur if Tyson shuts their plants? Let's face it, we're dependent on huge mega-corporations for our food at this point. There is almost no redundancy or small companies to step in and fill the void. Just look at what % of people live in mega cities on both coasts. You can't produce any quantity of meat IN those places.

Hiccups in grocery store logistics (like we've seen so far) are an inconvenience. GENUINE SUPPLY ISSUES result in much worse shortages -- and much worse panic buying.



https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/food-supply-chain-breaking-tyson-foods-chairman-claims-plant-coronavirus-closures

My local Costco is extremely low on fresh meat.

The entire section that used to hold the meat, several waist-high refrigerated display cases, have now been filled with produce. The meat had all been consolidated into one small section.

My local grocery store has very little meat also. It was also very low on produce. The frozen food section is nearly empty. Something is going very wrong with the supply chain.

I'd like to say something about the meat supply.  We live in an ag/rural area, where there are a lot of confinement barns for animals.  We know quite a few of these animal "farmers", and even though my husband and I DO NOT agree with confinement, we are friendly with the operators.  Many of them have animals--sized for butchering--just sitting there.  They aren't being picked up for slaughter because of all the meat processing plant closures.  We know one person who hasn't had eggs picked up for several weeks.  They just keep piling up...not to mention the dairy farmers that are dumping milk.  

It's really happening.  This isn't something made up by the media.  

What gets me is that if you were to take 5 gallons of this milk, a beef, a pork, and a couple chickens to every house in town, and gave it to them, most people wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.  Most of it would still go to waste. 

We ordered garden seeds 1 month ago, and still haven't received them, because the company is so far behind on filling the vast amounts of orders.  When we ordered, all the companies we normally ordered from were not accepting any more orders because of the huge amounts of orders they all had to fill.  We ordered chicks to raise for meat--they were about sold out as well.  Usually we get them in July because it works out to be a better time to butcher in the fall, but my husband ordered some now and another set for July, just in case.  

But what are people going to do in the winter?  How many of them are going to can/freeze/dehydrate or in any way preserve their garden's summer bounty?  How many even know how?  How many of you know how?

I strongly encourage each and every one of you to learn how to can and dehydrate your foods.  Those with larger families probably already buy in bulk, but if at all possible, buy bulk amounts of salt and other dry goods.  You can make do without a lot, if you have to, but salt is pretty hard to do without.  If you can, go online and get 50 or 100# of good quality sea salt.  Yes, it's expensive, but it'll keep for a long, long time.

I'm not trying to be an alarmist--just facing the reality of the coming hard times.  Even if it turns out this go-round isn't "it" as far as our world changing completely, it's really only a matter of time.  Your efforts won't be wasted either way.