My wife currently works for a large meat company, and there were absolutely huge staffing issues the entire time the larger unemployment checks were being sent out.

They had gigantic banners outside the plants with very large sign-on bonuses being advertised for a reason.

Almost everyone working in the plants are immigrants that live in large households. There’s a certain group of immigrants local to the area who all very much adopted wearing masks, but over the course of the pandemic I saw very few of them wearing them correctly.

At least in this producer’s case, I think a large number of the infections probably happened outside of work.