When they run out of immigrants and refugees to toss into the abattoir, who's going to pick up the slack? The assholes complaining that they can't get their nails done? The pool supply shop owners? AR-15 George Washington guy?

Meat prices are about to get insane, folks. https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1253033898734497793
When I worked in Tennessee, 80% of the immigrant and refugee families I saw in our clinic worked for meat packing. They worked long, miserable shifts in cold, wet factories, shoulder to shoulder with other workers, and then went home to their crowded, multigenerational apartments
There's a reason that meat packing is such a huge industry in states run by the absolute dumbest and most venal sociopaths. Any amount of sensible regulation would see a revolution in standards across the board, but that has been deemed impossible by any national politician.
The only solution they're going to come up for with this current outbreak is relaxing the already frightfully low standards for safety. This means even more worker exploitation and increasingly unsafe meat.

Anyway: good luck, everybody!
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