Citation: USA today, covid-19 ravaged meat plants.

Published Oct 1, 2020, at 5:00 a.m.

Summary: covid-19 is the disease caused by the new coronavirus that emerged in China in December 2019. Covid-19 symptoms include cough, fever or chills, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, muscle or body aches, sore throat, the new loss of taste or smell, diarrhea, headache, new fatigue, nausea, or vomiting, and congestion or runny nose. Covid19 can be severe, and some cases have caused death. The new coronavirus can be spread from person to person. It is diagnosed with a laboratory test. There is no corona vaccine yet. Prevention involved frequent hand washing, coughing into the bend of your elbow, staying home when you are sick, and wearing a cloth face covering if you can’t practice physical distance.

The actual total death toll from Covid -19 is likely to be higher than the number of confirmed deaths, this is due to limited testing and problem in the attribution of the cause of death; the difference between reported death varies by country. Not only this disease killed many people but also this disease ravaged meat plants which are an industry that creates many jobs. Meatpacking company is one of the companies that did not protect its employees during the covid19. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited JBS last month for failing to protect its employees in Greeley, Colorado, from being exposed to COVID-19. The company’s negligence cost one corporate employee and six workers at the plant their lives, JBS denies that it did nothing wrong.

Reflection: The coronavirus has transformed all of our lives included meat plants company which is a company that hires people. However, this company did not care for its employee’s life during the pandemic. This pandemic is unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetimes. We’ve seen the world shrink as we watch the spread, and even more, as we begin to feel the isolation and limitations on the freedom we have always known.

Quotation: “Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can cause unreasonable fear, or unjustified acceptance that the fight is over, leading to unnecessary suffering and death.” Dr. Tedros Adhanom

Citation: NBC NEWS

What happened to the middle-class American family?

Published March 18, 2015

Summary: More than 40 percent of American children are now born unmarried parents, down from just five percent in 1960, according to Pew Research Center. Fifty years ago, the vast majority of adults (72 percent) were married. The same is true for only about half of adults today. The declines in marriage are especially pronounced in families with lower earnings. Tying the knot is increasingly a marker of class status in America.

Pew defines the middle class as those whose annual household income is two-third to double the national median, which was $57,617 as of 2016. As seen the chart above, though, earning an annual income above $ 135000 puts a three- person family among 19 percent of American households that are upper-class.

Nearly 70% of Americans consider themselves middle class. The definition of “middle class” can vary wildly depending on who you ask. For some, it is defined by certain attributes: if you are hardworking, thrifty, and humble, for others, it means earning a substantial salary but not so much that you’d considered rich.

Reflection: The middle-class American family is stable in size, but losing ground financially to upper-income families. About half (52%) of American adults lived in middle-class households in 2016. This is virtually unchanged from the 51% who were middle class in 2011. However while the size of the nation’s middle class remained relatively stable, financial gains for middle-income Americans during this period were modest compared with those of higher-income households, causing the income disparity between the groups to grow.

Quotation: “The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance”. Ellen Cushing