Coping with covid
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For those in agriculture, nothing has stopped during the
pandemic. Food is life and for most,
this means that Agriculture continues to operate daily to feed the masses. In normal operations on poultry farms large and
small, biosecurity has been and will be a normal practice. What the pandemic has taught everyone else is
what we need to do in order to protect ourselves from disease. Operational biosecurity now needs to be
practiced by everyone if everyone is to be protected. Isolation (distancing), physical barriers
(PPE), and sanitation routines (hand washing, surface cleaning) that were just germane
to farms is now being practiced by all. Until
we have a working vaccine in place, all of us should strongly consider using
sound biosecurity to keep themselves and those they love safe. How well we practice these steps will show in
the number of positive cases seen.
