#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& #39;t get adequate testing for themselves or their families. Some have been denied testing by local governments.

According to @leahjdouglas& #39;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/">https://thefern.org/2020/04/m...

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& #39;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& #39;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.