live like everything else in the market is to stop symbols to fluctuations with what is the cost of food inc human lives above everything else while to discuss that i'm now joined by david handlers and a research fellow with the hoover institution at stanford university professor henderson it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and your show now one of the things that has been possible in the us throughout the call this 19 pandemic is that in many countries it's economists spread merrily liberally minded economists who are very much in favor of the.

lives like everything else in the market is to stop symbols fluctuation with what is the cost of food inc human lives above everything else while to discuss that i'm now joined by david handler said the research fellow with the hoover institution at stanford university professor henderson it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and your show now one of the things that has been possible in these throughout the call this 19 pandemic is that in many countries it's economist spread merrily liberally minded economists who are very much in favor of the strictest low down possible while many epidemiologists and other public health professionals are a form more reserved about such total matters how do you explain die out. what i think it what economists did early on starting in march the reason university of chicago study was they took the most extreme. model which was the imperial college london model which has been shown to be fundamentally flawed and they said ok let's take that as given and then let's look at let's kind of see what policies will save how many lives and they

companies that have various meat processing plants in northwest arkansas, cargill, tyson foods and georgia's inc foods tested employees at all of their facilities in northwest arkansas, ten different facilities. they say out of nearly 4,000 employees, 13% tested positive for covid-19, and 95% of those positive cases were asymptomatic. they're taking steps across the board to prevent the spread of covid-19 from plastic dividers to giving employees face masks and requiring that they wear them, also giving some of them plastic face masks for extra protection. they say they've put people in gathering areas to remind workers to social distance, but workers we have spoken to say thisit is not enough because covid-19 is only here. the only way to truly stop the spread is by closing down the plants temporarily. those workers also tell us it is not just tyson foods. they say all the poultry plants in this area need to do more. we spoke to one woman who asked us not to show her face, she's scared she could lose her job by talking to us. one of her relatives worked at a poultry plant in northwest arkansas.

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