From Buzzfeed News:
WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar blamed a rash of COVID-19 cases in meatpacking plants on workers' personal living habits, suggesting they were contracting the disease in their communities and bringing the disease to the plant.
During a call with congressional lawmakers, the top health official
expressed the need to keep plants open amid the coronavirus. His
comments were first reported by Politico.
The call was about rural hospitals but veered into the Trump administration's oversight of workplaces deemed essential. "Azar attempted to make the case that meat processing plants should be kept open and that workers are at greater risk of COVID-19 infection in their 'home and social' environments rather than on the job," said Democratic Rep. Ann Kuster.
Yes, it is not the fault of the cheek-by-jowl conditions on the disassembly lines, it is the fault of the filthy foreigners who work in the meatpacking plants. If only they would wash their hands and not live ten to a room!
God, these people are evil. Bill Barr says that history is written by the winners. I hope that this repugnant crew goes down in history as the worst of the worst. They make the Bushes and the Rumsfelds and the Nixons and the Kissingers look supremely competent, full of integrity, and saintly by comparison.