[Peace-discuss] More COVID-19 than is widely covered @Amazon: 19k+ workers testing positive; News of general strike on Election Day

[J.B. Nicholson]

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/519241-amazon-says-19000-of-its-workers-tested-positive-for-covid-19
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/nearly-20-000-amazon-workers-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19-1.4370286
Today's Jimmy Dore show with Christian Smalls also reports on this. I'm
sure they'll upload this as a separate segment soon.

The Hill's article starts:
> More than 19,000 Amazon workers contracted COVID-19 during the
> pandemic, the company revealed in an update on testing released
> Thursday.
> 
> It is the first time Amazon has publicly shared case numbers among
> its more than 1.3 million Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line
> employees across the U.S.
> 
> The company said in a press release that the 19,816 positive tests
> means the rate of infection among employees was 42 percent lower than
> expected, compared to the “general population rate” in the U.S.

I'm guessing that someone at Amazon was looking for some late-in-the-
week non-coverage. If what Amazon did in the past holds true now (see 
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/26/21194739/amazon-warehouse-workers-coronavirus-covid-19-outraged-informed
 which includes "Ten Amazon warehouses in the US have had COVID-19
cases. Workers often hear of them through rumors.") you might have to
rely on friend-of-a-friend info to get anything on whether workers in
local facilities are infected.

Smalls is looking to lead a general strike for Election Day, which he
just announced on Jimmy Dore's show.

See https://tcoew.org (The Congress of Essential Workers) for
information on Smalls' action against one of Bezos' houses this weekend
(2020-10-03 and/or 2020-10-04).

-J