Let's call it what it is.

Forcing the schools open isn't about schools.

It's about Big Ag.

Agribusiness owns this state & has told its elected officials we're not closing. Their profits are literally more important than life and death. 1/5

Big Ag wants everyone & everything to stay open and unmasked, and they're forcing their bought & paid for governor to deny local control, because they don't want any jurisdiction to set any precedent that could close a meat packing plant for a day. 2

Agribusiness doesn't really care what Johnson County does. But if we're allowed to issue closing orders and mask mandates, then Louisa and Muscatine are too, and they care a LOT about that. Our bars and schools have to stay open so their meatpacking plants can.

If we could issue mask mandates & closings, but had to make exemptions for ag & meat packing, that would be bad for those workers. But it would provide more protection for some of us. Instead, we are all lowered to the least common denominator of the slaughterhouse floor.

Iowa is literally the worst place in the world to be right now. America is handling COVID worse than any nation, and Iowa is handling it worse than any state. We've long known Big Ag sees their workers as disposable. Now it's clear they think the rest of us are expendable too.