Feds send coronavirus strike force to Amarillo in response to outbreaks in meatpacking plants

[TexasTowelie]

by Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune


A federal strike force is headed to Amarillo in response to a surge of coronavirus cases tied to meatpacking plants in the area.

Amarillo Mayor Ginger Nelson announced on Saturday that a team of federal officials would arrive in the Texas Panhandle as soon as Sunday to help "attack" outbreaks in the plants and take over testing and investigations of people contracting the new coronavirus.

“They will bring resources and most importantly they will bring strategies that they’ve been using in other beef packing plants to slow the spread, to get control of it,” Nelson said in a video posted to her Facebook page.

The latest figures reported by the state put the number of people who have been infected in Potter County at 684, giving it an infection rate of 5.66 per 1,000 residents. That’s roughly four times higher than the infection rates in Harris and Dallas counties.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/02/amarillo-coronavirus-meatpacking/

[vercetti2021]

1. Yep she isn't helping jack and shit

The state let mayors control what opens and what stays shut. She allowed restaurants to open at 25% capacity Friday. And behold at the height of the package plants getting hit bad. We are gonna spike very badly here and these morons in our city now believe the virus never existed now.

[LeftInTX]

3. Abbott required all jurisdictions to open at 25% capacity and 50% if less than 5 cases in the county

All local control was superseded

[sfstaxprep]

2. Ginger Nelson Is Not My Mayor

Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/gingernelsonbadmayor/

[vercetti2021]

4. Vomit

And people are praising her for her quick response. Yeah if it was so quick why the hell do we need the national guard here? Yeah quick response my ass.