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I recall going to Waffle House in college around 2 AM pretty often when studying.  A semi-GF worked there night shift.  You'd see some people in coats and ties and drunk students and studying students and just plain drunks.  Their HQ is near where I grew up.  There is a Waffle House Index.

The Waffle House Index is an informal metric named after the Waffle House restaurant chain and is used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.<sup>[1]

The index has three levels, based on the extent of operations and service at the restaurant following a storm:[2][3]</sup>

• GREEN: full menu – restaurant has power and damage is limited or no damage at all.
• YELLOW: limited menu – no power or only power from a generator, or food supplies may be low.
• RED: the restaurant is closed – indicating severe damage or severe flooding.

Overall, in 2020, Waffle Houses closed at this rate:

• April 3: 38.9% closed^[12]
• April 6: 56.1% closed^[13]
• April 8: 70.6% closed^[14]
• April 13: 72.4% closed^[15]
• April 16: 78.6% closed^[16]
• April 17: 99.0% closed^[17]

I'm just confused...

These are the businesses that are remaining open because they're [rightly] considered "essential infrastructure".

And they're closing because of outbreaks and deaths amongst their workers.

And this is an argument to re-open the rest of the economy?

I didn't read anything about deaths.  It didn't even really say anything about people feeling sick.  We already know that 50% or more of people that test positive have no symptoms at all.  

I point this out, because a neighbor who works as the business manager for a machine shop, was forced to close down his entire shop, when one of the workers tested positive.  That worker had mild symptoms, got tested, and tested positive.  So the corporate office shut down the entire shop, and had several other employees tested, and those results are still pending.  IF they come back negative, they might be allowed to reopen.  If they come back positive, then the shop will remain closed for several more weeks, even though only one person ever felt any symptoms at all, and is now recovering and feeling fine.

Point being, this is something we're doing to ourselves, by choice.  At the micro level, we're shutting down entire shops of people that feel fine, because one person felt sick. Thousands of man-hours of lost productivity, because this one guy had a fairly mild case, and is already feeling better. 

At the macro level, we're shutting down entire industries, with billions of man-hours of lost productivity.  And we're doing this by our own choices.

So youre not in favor of reopening where possible?

I'm in favor of reopening where/when possible, in a smart and controlled way. The big concern, that we would completely overwhelm the health care system, appears to suggest that controlled reopening and watching the numbers might be possible as we're not overwhelming the health care system.

I'm just saying that a lot of the meat processing plants aren't closed because of government "stay at home" orders--they closed because remaining open resulted in outbreaks and had to shut down because of outbreaks. Clearly being open was the problem, not the solution.

My tip of the day:

Buy your fishing pole before the hoarders show up.

I'm in favor of reopening where/when possible, in a smart and controlled way. The big concern, that we would completely overwhelm the health care system, appears to suggest that controlled reopening and watching the numbers might be possible as we're not overwhelming the health care system.

I'm just saying that a lot of the meat processing plants aren't closed because of government "stay at home" orders--they closed because remaining open resulted in outbreaks and had to shut down because of outbreaks. Clearly being open was the problem, not the solution.

I dont know if your are right or wrong it doesnt matter cause these places cant close down if we expect to survive 

They need to remain open no matter what

theres a solution somewhere and we need to find it

theres a beef plant in Amarillo?

big one, it's been there since at least 1985

I worked on a few projects there
got to eat at the Big Texan!  

huge coyotes there - I asked the driver that picked me up at the airport about the coyotes - he said, you should see the size of the rats around the plant!

the engineer I was on the first trip there told me the great thing about Amarillo was that there was a pretty girl behind every tree
no trees

I've never been inside a plant like that, but I'm assuming they don't have much distance between workers?  And that it would be difficult to space them out more?