Deaths of Pork Slaughter Plant Employees. Deaths of Fetuses.



Our public officials, mostly Governors, are forced with decisions about what to allow and what not to allow open.  Mostly these consequences are about economics, peoples jobs and the money they lose. A few involve actual lives lost or lives saved by a Governor's decision. Governors have to decide which is more important, lives saved by not opening or money lost by remaining closed.

One of the most interesting is animal slaughtering plants. Apparently they have many people working close to one another, breathing hard, splashing water and blood on each other and spreading the virus. If the plants are closed people who work there suffer, farmers have to destroy their pigs, bank loans are not repaid and consumers have to eat nuts and beans for protein instead of feeding their faces with bacon. Maybe 100 million voters eat bacon. Farmers are a voting block as well as the bankers. The deaths occur among low income packing plant workers with little political influence.

The economic impact of shutting the plants is not huge, probably less than shutting bars and restaurants. But, the political calculation make it predictable, Governors (and the President) will open these plants.

I'm not really complaining about Governors' decisions because they are in the hot seat and have to make these calculations. I can't predict what decision I would make if I were a Governor. The consequences of the deaths are just part of what they see.

Abortions are decisions about the life of a fetus verses whatever problems a pregnant woman is faced with. So called "right-to-life" people should let these women do their own calculation just as Governors must make theirs. Holier than thou zealots who shout prayers at women going into clinics can say they would make a different choice if they were that pregnant woman.

Reality is, most of the protesters have not been faced with the abortion decision and don't know what decision they would make if they were in the pregnant woman's shoes.


Comments

  1. tsmApril 30, 2020 at 6:04 PM

    let them eat beans. and keep the theaters closed. and gee, I think that we should check out the role of abortion at the battle of Gettysburg.

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  2. Jon LindgrenApril 30, 2020 at 7:38 PM

    Unknown--"Let them eat beans."

    You and I are so young we did not experience the Great Depression as adults. I have heard the Ag. Extension Service circulated recipes for beans main dish, bean salad and bean deserts. The unemployment rate today is reportedly about equal to the great depression.

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