#Big10 football players will be tested daily for #COVID19. Many meatpacking plant employees—declared essential workers by the federal government—in the Big 10 region can't get adequate testing for themselves or their families. Some have been denied testing by local governments.

According to @leahjdouglas's daily tally: 52,018 meatpacking and food processing workers have contracted #COVID19 and 237 of those workers have died. Their "hero pay" has expired, and even at-risk workers are being called back to work—or will face firing. https://thefern.org/2020/04/mapping-covid-19-in-meat-and-food-processing-plants/

At a hearing before the Nebraska Legislature last month, workers at major packing plants reported that they receive one surgical mask per day—and it is soaked with blood within the first 2 hours of their shifts. That has not changed.

So it's daily testing and medical monitoring for college football players, inadequate PPE and threats of unemployment for our essential workers safeguarding the food supply.

Got it.

I understand the love of football. (My dad played at Hastings alongside Tom Osborne's younger brother, Jack.)

But if we can afford daily medical screening for players, we can afford adequate PPE and mandatory social distancing for essential workers.