The fruit plant that had to close near me attempted to make work conditions safe. The CEO of the company said they took several steps to protect employees before the outbreak, including social distancing, temperature checks, providing masks to employees and offering expanded sick leave. The CEO is now warning others the genie is not back in the bottle. The health department is working with them to improve conditions with things like installing barriers between work stations, installing more hand washing stations, staggering work shifts and lunch/break schedules.
They tried and people still got sick. Imagine when no effort is made.