Meat Blinder

“It was an unmitigated disaster for food processors, and it didn’t have to be … There are things that could have happened in a pandemic that would have been novel, but this has unfolded pretty much as the pandemic plan has suggested it would.” ProPublica: Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19. (More troubling than the lack of preparation has been the response since the pandemic hit.)