Thread. The news of a Kildare lockdown is extremely disappointing news for citizens and to all the small businesses who have followed the health regulations and restrictions in #Kildare.

The high #Covid19 numbers in Kildare are exposing the fault lines in society.../ Clearly, some of the meat factory workers involved in these high-infection rates live in difficult physical circumstances. Workers are people. They are not statistics. We cannot go on exploiting people like this in the name of profit... /