[vkou]

You're missing some key facts.

1. Meatpacking, and its supporting supply chains is an essential business. No state in the US has lifted a finger to shut it down.

2. These plant shutdowns are caused by people working in meatpacking plants getting sick, and being unable to work.

I don't understand how you can blame this on an economic shutdown. If anything, without the shutdown, the meatpackers would have gotten sick sooner, and in greater numbers.

[mlyle]

Nit on #2 --- usually these shutdowns are caused by too many people getting sick at the plant, and local authorities pressuring it to shut down, or the plant shutting down out of fear of liability to employees.

There has been slowed production due to inadequate workforce, but I don't think many plants have -closed- for this reason.