[smallmind]

Three possible reasons:

1. Workers only get food if they show up for their shift. If they are sick and don't work, there is no place to get food in the Foxconn campus. Due to the lockdown, the workers can't order food delivered online if sick.

2. When local governments force people to quarantine, they are supposed to provide basic meals. However, it seems most workers who were quarantined recently did not receive any food or water for days because the local government expected Foxconn to provide it instead.

3. Someone made a viral video suggesting everyone who was quarantined in a dormitory room died of a new deadly disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hKBAeie5wY

[bpye]

Well any one of those three sound absolutely horrendous.

[throwaway290]

> 3. Someone made a viral video suggesting everyone who was quarantined in a dormitory room died of a new deadly disease.

This is now just routine, very easy way to get views (courtesy government of some country that chose to hush the beginnings of a pandemic).