Workers at the General Motors Wentzville Assembly plant in Missouri will once again have to wear their masks while on the job due to a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in the area.
In a memo sent to workers this week, the UAW Local 2250 union that represents workers at the plant said workers will have to don masks starting Monday night, although temperature screening at the facility will remain suspended for now.
“We have been informed by the company and UAW International that based on the severe upward trend of COVID cases in the surrounding areas all GM Wentzville Assembly Center employees will be once again required to wear masks upon entering the plant starting tonight with third shift employees,” the memo said.
GM spokesman David Barnas told that “the health and safety of our team members will continue to dictate our COVID 19 protocols,” suggesting GM’s COVID-19 protocols could change often as cases rise and fall in certain areas.
According to The Detroit Free Press, southwestern Missouri has had the nation’s largest outbreak of COVID-19 recently. As of July 13th, the seven-day average of new cases in Missouri was near 1,400 positive cases per day – up more than 150 percent from one month ago.
The Wentzville Assembly plant, located about 40 miles west of St. Louis, builds the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickups, as well as the Chevy Express and GMC Savana utility vans. Approximately 3,399 employees work there across three shifts.
Other GM plans in the U.S. continue to operate without mask requirements for employees, although this could change if cases continue to rise nationwide. The UAW dropped its mask requirements for Ford, GM and Stellantis workers on July 12th.
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You have to wonder. They say no masks then masks.
Then it was get your shots and no mask but now they are saying masks even if the shorts prevent Delta.
Then the virus did not come from the lab and not it may have?
I can see why some refused the shots as so many different stories have been told. Either they have no clue or they are lying.
I have my shots and I am wondering am I protected from the Delta or not?
You are safe from experiencing the worst of what catching Covid would do to you. You’ve greatly reduced your chances of having it so bad that you will need to go to the hospital.
So it is possible to get the Delta with shots but it will reduce the severity?
Why are so few saying this?
The vaccine is not 100% effective. I know more about the Pfizer because that is what I received. It is 95% effective, so 5 out of 100 exposed persons would become contagious. However, the Pfizer vaccine is only like 64% effective against the delta variant. This is why Pfizer has requested a third booster to be administered. Nearly all the hospitalizations and deaths from covid and its variants are from non vaccinated. People who have been vaccinated but catch the virus have less severe symptons and typically do not need to be hospitalized.
The virus most certainly was developed by the Chinese to be used as a biological weapons. There are key signature signs that can be looked at to determine if a virus was created in a lap or occurred naturally. The covid-19 virus indicators show that it was created in a lab.
When you get outside of the St. Louis and Kansas City metro; vaccination rates in rural Missouri are only about 25%. That is why Missouri is leading the way with infection and death rates currently .
I get it and know nothing is 100%. But my point is there is so much conflicting info from the officials and they want us to trust them.
I still don’t believe we have been given the full truth and may never will.
The fact is many in the government have been miss leading and been to the point they have lost the trust of many people and just want to blame face book for their errors.
What is funny the folks that were telling the truth got chastised for it.
Everything, everywhere says it definitely came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology Lab ( that Fauci controls sending funds to) . He is so closely tied to China as is Biden ( proven with facts, not political rhetoric ) that getting them to openly admit the Lab is where the Virus originated, with all the trademarks of being manipulated by humans, that we will never get an admission from Fauci or the current Administration. Proof is there, as many other courageous Medical Science Professionals have stated, but since Fauci solely controls the research dollars it’s tough if not impossible to get everyone to agree. The real question is: did the Virus “escape” or was it deliberately released ? We know for a fact the PRC Government did everything to cover it up and even cornered the World Market on PPP equipment while they strove to keep it hidden.
They think that masks will help hahahahahaha!
They do. They also helped contribute to the least amount of Flu deaths over the winter that this country has ever seen. The data backs this up.
Since Dr. Fauci controls all the funding dollars, it’s been very difficult for any other Medical Professional to express their opinion or even publish their statistics and research if it doesn’t jive, at the moment, with Fauci’s constantly contradicting himself. At 80 years of age, Fauci is just too old to be expected to keep-up with the advances in Virology as well as perform his bureaucratic duties for which he is the highest-paid Federal employee. The rampant spread of the Virus in MO is the “Delta” variety and it is notorious for being far more easily transmitted. it began in SW MO down in the Springfield/Branson area and has spread up along I-44 leading to E. Central MO where Wentzville is located. Many deaths have already occurred even among several who WERE vaccinated and the hospitals in Springfield are at the breaking point and even ran out of ventilators at Mercy at one point. This crap is nothing to fool around with and debate about ! Take all necessary precautions….
Thank God. Masks if not changed every few hours due to the high rate of germ accumulation on mask material from mucus and saliva become dangerous pathogen carriers in themselves. The masks then become detrimental to the wearer. The human mouth is a tremendous germ orifice. That’s why we brush our teeth 2X’s a day and floss.
Masks in this pandemic were completely mismanaged.
Almost as laughable as the initial feverous run on toilet paper.