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A year into COVID, Smithfield workers still have questions

A year into COVID, Smithfield workers still have questions
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A year into COVID, Smithfield workers still have questions

A year into COVID, Smithfield workers still have questions Follow Us Question of the Day SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Sandra Silbert wasn’t taking any chances. She asked for a mask in March 2020 at the Smithfield Foods meatpacking plant in Sioux Falls. When she didn’t get one, she made them herself out of an extra set of curtains at home. She asked her manager how the plant would enforce social distancing before the deadly coronavirus made its way to her department. Her concerns fell on deaf ears, she said. TOP STORIES She wrote letters to Gov. Kristi Noem and Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, asking for them to help keep Smithfield Foods workers safe. By the time she got a response, it was too late.

They don t care : Meatpacking workers feel left out of vaccine prioritization

‘They don’t care’: Meatpacking workers feel left out of vaccine prioritization TODAY 3/12/2021 © Provided by TODAY SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A year after meatpacking worker Sandra Silbert found herself praying in the locker room before her shifts and making her own masks to protect against COVID-19 on the assembly line, the timeline for vaccines to protect essential workers is still hazy. They don’t care [about] us. They don’t care in the beginning of the pandemic, and they don t care now,” said Silbert, who has worked in the hambone department at the Sioux Falls Smithfield plant for 15 years. If we were a priority, they would give us the vaccine. But when people treat us like that, we feel alone.”

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