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State Confirms Nine Coronavirus Cases at Demkota Beef, Mum on Shutdown

We’re up to nine confirmed cases of coronavirus at the Demkota Ranch Beef plant in Aberdeen, and the company has yet to announce any shutdown to prevent the spread to more workers and their Brown County neighbors:

Kim Malsam-Rysdon, South Dakota secretary of health, also confirmed the nine cases involving beef plant employees during a news conference with Gov. Kristi Noem.

“We did have a team at the facility again this morning. We are also working with the community of Aberdeen” on what needs to be done from a safety standpoint, Malsam-Rysdon said.

Testing continues to be made available to anyone with symptoms. The state uses “symptomatic” as a guideline for when a person should be tested for an active case. Close contacts are also being investigated at the plant, Malsam-Rysdon said [“Nine of Brown County’s Confirmed Cases from Demkota Ranch Beef Plant,” Hub City Radio, 2020.04.23].

From a safety standpoint, what needs to be done is shut the plant down and send all of the workers home for two weeks of quarantine to make sure they don’t catch covid-19 or spread it to anyone else. From a safety standpoint, what needs to be done is the Governor needs to order the plant to close, then walk across the street to the Department of Labor and authorize immediate unemployment checks for every Demkota employee, with the exception of maybe the managers who keep picking profits over public health.

17 Comments

  1. Debbo

    That last paragraph, beginning with “From.” Kruel Kristi, give it a read.

  2. grudznick

    Stay away from there, Mr. H, during your arboretum strolls to escape the masses. The covid bugs can carry on the stench from the Dem plant alone.

  3. I did consider air pollution when we bought a house in Aberdeen. I haven’t smelled the beef plant yet this far north. We just smell the ethanol plant… and alcohol kills viruses, right?

  4. grudznick

    If you drink enough of it they say even the tiniest covids can’t get you. But sometimes they say wrong stuff, so don’t believe everything they say.

  5. jerry

    trump says injecting alcohol would do the trick, GNOem probably will be sending IV’s to Aberdeen after talking with Jared. red state leadership…it’s a bust man.

    “Donald Trump suggested that light and disinfectant could be injected into people’s bodies as a cure for coronavirus. His public health advisors immediately played down the idea. Medics warn that attempting such at thing at home is very dangerous and could be fatal.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/23/coronavirus-us-live-house-484bn-crisis-aid-package-trump-cuomo-latest-news-updates

  6. mike from iowa

    After a Homeland Security official mentioned the ability of disinfectants like bleach to kill the coronavirus on surfaces, Trump remarked on the effectiveness.

    “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?” Trump said during his daily press briefing at the White House. “Because you see it gets on the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that. So that you’re going to have to use medical doctors, but it sounds — it sounds interesting to me.”

  7. Debbo

    “Donald Trump suggested that light and disinfectant could be injected into people’s bodies as a cure for coronavirus.”

    😲O😟M😳G😲

    I want him to try injecting a mixture of green glow-in-the-dark fluid and Lysol, see how that works.

  8. jerry

    Tomorrow, you will see a run on insulin syringes and red state dingle berries with air bumps all over their bodies looking like they have leprosy. Look for those air bumps on GNOem to go with those hoops she flashes under the cap, she’ll be first in line to try it.. if Jared says so.

  9. Debbo

    No. She’ll sacrifice some poor, dumb MAGAts to build her Orange Cred.

  10. mike from iowa

    We have crossed a Rubicon in drumpf’s body count…

    Last updated: April 24, 2020, 11:58 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    886,709
    Deaths:
    50,243

  11. Debbo

    50,000 in 2-3 months. And that’s really only a partial count.

    No, this is not the flu.

  12. kj trailer trash

    In mid-March, we were at less than 100 recognized Covid-19 U.S, deaths. At the current rate, the Trump Virus will have gone from the entire Vietnam War in a month and a half. Good job, Donnie. I guess he’s always been jealous that he couldn’t serve there, you know (if only he hadn’t had those pesky incurable bone spurs).

  13. mike from iowa

    Nearly a million cases in the US….

    Last updated: April 24, 2020, 18:19 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    903,775
    Deaths:
    50,988

    drumpf body count goes higher and higher.

  14. mike from iowa

    Headlines from WAPO…

    Trump claims controversial comment about injecting disinfectants was ‘sarcastic’

    Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

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