{"id":42710,"date":"2020-05-14T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42710"},"modified":"2020-05-14T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T16:27:34","slug":"are-we-moving-too-quickly-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42710","title":{"rendered":"Are we moving too quickly to reopen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Social distancing is the weapon of necessity in this fight we are waging against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Get a load of this bit of news out of Amarillo: Hundreds of meatpacking plant employees aren’t showing any symptoms of the COVID-19 virus — but are testing positive anyway for the viral infection.<\/p>\n

Which makes social distancing and the wearing of masks so very imperative, according to Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are encountering people who are asymptomatic,\u201d said Mayor Nelson in remarks to KAMR\/KCIT-TV in Amarillo. \u201cThey don\u2019t know they\u2019re sick, but they have the virus and they\u2019re at the grocery store, you\u2019re encountering them, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s so important to wear a mask. You could be that person.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet we keep hearing from fools such as, oh, the president of the United States who tell us how vital it is to reopen the country, to get the economy jump started. Donald Trump cares less about the health of Americans than he does about the state of the economy and whether its current crisis bodes ill for his re-election chances.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he is enlisting many of his gubernatorial allies — such as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — in pushing forward possibly too quickly.<\/p>\n

The Tyson Foods plant in Amarillo is a huge employer. More than 3,500 employees got tested for the virus, many of whom tested positive. I am forced to ask: Is it worth exposing those employees to serious illness or even death? I would say with emphasis: Hell no!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Social distancing is the weapon of necessity in this fight we are waging against the coronavirus pandemic. Get a load of this bit of news out of Amarillo: Hundreds of meatpacking plant employees aren’t showing any symptoms of the COVID-19 virus — but are testing positive anyway for the viral infection. Which makes social distancing … Continue reading Are we moving too quickly to reopen?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9236,9257,6754,9261,9357],"class_list":["post-42710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-ginger-nelson","tag-pandemic","tag-tyson-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42713,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42710\/revisions\/42713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}