WELL, THEY’RE NOT WRONG: “Smithfield Foods Is Blaming ‘Living Circumstances In Certain Cultures’ For One Of America’s Largest COVID-19 Clusters.” Some of the dense-packed living is economic, but some of it is cultural. When the Insta-Wife was a grad student in NYC and finally managed to get her own tiny apartment, there was a family of 8 Ecuadorians living in the same size apartment above her. The kids felt sorry for her for having to live alone.