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https://www.supermarketnews.com/issues-trends/ufcw-over-11500-grocery-workers-affected-first-100-days-pandemic
June 26, 2020

"United Food and Commercial Workers International (UFCW) said at least 82 grocery
store workers have died from COVID-19 and 11,507 have been infected or exposed to
the virus in the first 100 days of the outbreak."

Of 900,000 Grocery Store workers total.

"The nation’s largest private sector union, UFCW represents 1.3 million employees
in grocery, meatpacking, food processing, retail, health care and other industries
in the United States and Canada. The Washington, D.C.-based union said in a press
conference yesterday that, among its membership, 238 workers have died from coronavirus in the 100 days since the pandemic started, while almost 29,000 have
been infected or exposed."

What does "exposed" mean?

11,507/900,000 Grocery Store Workers = 1.28% infected [or exposed(??]

To compare this to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
That's 1,000,000/900,000 = 1.11 x 11,507 = 12,785

12,785 Total Cases per 1 Million Population.

For the date of June 26th (link below), that would currently put Grocery Workers
7th on the list of States & D.C., sorted by Tot Cases/1M pop, after Connecticut.

29,000/1,300,000 Members including Meat Packers = 2.23% infected [or exposed(??]
1,000,000/1,300,000 = .76 x 29,000 = 22,307

22,307 Total Cases Per 1 Million,

which would put the Union first ahead of New York State. This includes the meat
packing plants.

82/11,507 = .007 = .7% of infected Grocery Workers dead. But what does merely exposed mean? For this is a relatively low percentage.

And,
238/29,000 = .0082 = .82% total Members infected dead. Again, what does merely "exposed" mean? For this is a relatively low percentage.

If the "exposed" is not infected, and the percent of infected dead is higher; then
the total cases per 1 million population is happily lower.


For 900,000 figure (took me 12-15 minutes to find it): http://www.ufcw.org/2020/04/22/americas-largest-food-retail-union-launches-national-coronavirus-safety-advertising-campaign-targeting-all-grocery-shoppers/


June 26 Archive: of worldometer.info/coronavirus/country/us/ ,click "Yesterday."
https://web.archive.org/web/20200627083212/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

The National Average for the date of June 26th, is 7,713 cases per 1 Million people. Number 15 below Mississippi. So the grocery workers at 12,785/7,713 = 1.657, or 66% more infected, or perhaps more risky, as you would expect them to be
about the same, as they must be spread out over the United States. So for every 2
in the general population infected, 3.3 Grocery Store workers may be infected. This is no professional analysis. Keeping the general number of infected down, obviously helps keep the number of grocery store workers infected down, that they
all don't quit, if this thing grows out of control, unless everyone's plan was to
get it. Too many people would certainly die. It's so stupid.

On the other hand if only 1.66 Grocery Workers who stand in the store all day, get
Coronavirus, it would seem the Grocery Store is probably not more dangerous for the average shopper, who moves around, while they spend an hour or so every week
or month or more in it. Employee protections is what the focus thus needs to be
on, perhaps, as compared to restaurants and commercial indoor parties, and bars,
where consumer protections are as great of a concern; and as is the commercially
motivated spread. Telling people to come to a Bar or a Restaurant, when it isn't
a safe nor a good thing. Of course, as to this analysis, who are the people who
are getting Coronavirus anyway? The Grocery Store workers are included in the general population numbers, as are other essential workers, but who else is getting it? Not you who never go out huh?


We demand Walmart and all Grocery stores, not members of this Union, reveal data
on their workers, infected with COVID, to "We The People."

We need similar advice about the Restaurant industry and its workers.

Why shouldn't everyone wear plastic gloves into the Grocery Stores as well as masks?


Also the Grocery Store workers should all perhaps have available, provided by the
Government, or the store:
N95 or higher masks, and
gloves, and
possibly facial shields,

and be encouraged to wear them. Such masks protect the wearer, while a surgical
mask is more effective in protecting others *from* you. This might drop those numbers from 1.66 down.

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