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Related: About this forumState no longer allowed to track processing plant data
Thursday, May 7th 2020, 10:31 AM CDT
NEBRASKA - Local health officials will no longer be able to report COVID-19 data from meat processing plants.
Governor Pete Ricketts said Wednesday that the state won't be releasing specific numbers of cases at meatpacking plants, saying it's a matter of privacy.
Some local health departments like the Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department and Public Health Solutions had been providing updates on positive cases at plants in their district as they came in.
Wednesday Elkhorn Logan Valley Health Director Gina Uhing provided a final update at the Tyson plant in Madison, saying 220 cases of the coronavirus were tied to employees there. The Madison plant has stopped production for the time being.
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State no longer allowed to track processing plant data (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
May 2020
OP
I said the other day this would be IQ45's angle ... get the red states to suppress the numbers ...
mr_lebowski
May 2020
#2
Kind of like in Russia, people don't die of Covid they die of double pneumonia
LiberalArkie
May 2020
#3
I doi not think the hospitals are, now the state health departments, that is entirely different
LiberalArkie
May 2020
#7
I'm not saying hospitals are lying, I'm saying that is the new narrative by the GOP nt
Fiendish Thingy
May 2020
#9
PRIVACY??? WHOSE FUCKING PRIVACY??? If my asshole neighbor dumps stuff that will...
TreasonousBastard
May 2020
#6
Corporate privacy matters tor Republicans. Individual privacy, not so much. Nt
lostnfound
May 2020
#8
marble falls
(62,803 posts)1. So "privacy" trumps "public safety".
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. I said the other day this would be IQ45's angle ... get the red states to suppress the numbers ...
Act like the whole problem is the blue states (who I'm sure will continue to report the numbers ... you know, like decent human beings).
LiberalArkie
(17,019 posts)3. Kind of like in Russia, people don't die of Covid they die of double pneumonia
Alacritous Crier
(4,193 posts)4. Absolutely deplorable! -- nt
Fiendish Thingy
(19,023 posts)5. That's the new narrative - hospitals are lying, everything is fine nt
LiberalArkie
(17,019 posts)7. I doi not think the hospitals are, now the state health departments, that is entirely different
Fiendish Thingy
(19,023 posts)9. I'm not saying hospitals are lying, I'm saying that is the new narrative by the GOP nt
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)6. PRIVACY??? WHOSE FUCKING PRIVACY??? If my asshole neighbor dumps stuff that will...
end up in my well, he better not make a claim of privacy.
lostnfound
(16,797 posts)8. Corporate privacy matters tor Republicans. Individual privacy, not so much. Nt