Posted on 04/01/2020 3:51:24 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Pentagon is looking into providing an additional 100,000 military-style body bags for civilian use, as the expected death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has requested 100,000 body bags, officially called human remains pouches, and the Pentagon is looking to buy more body bags, as it dips into its stockpile of 50,000, Bloomberg reports. The request went through the Defense Logistics Agency, which oversees the distribution of the Pentagon's body bag stockpile.
The Defense Department has already sent to two Navy hospital ships to New York and Los Angeles to help relieve pressure on hospitals inundated with coronavirus patients.
On Tuesday, the White House coronavirus task force warned the country that as many as 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19, even with the country continuing to enforce social distancing until the end of April.
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Is there something we aren’t being told about what really happened in Red China?
Save some for the media.
If we get it down to 100,000 then it’s a victory
Jim Acosta will probably have a mirror installed inside the lid of his coffin when he croaks
They can go to NOLA and pick up the 10,000 body bags they said they would need after Katrina.
....just curious...what kind of “digger” are you?... :)
After the President’s last couple of pressers, Mr. Occam would think so ...
Yes, we need to keep our neighborhoods nice and clean. :)
Oh? Please elaborate. Thx
i live in NY- i remember hearing on radio news about 30,000 bags being sent to Ground Zero after the attacks...
EXACT same headline during KATRINA!!!! Great call by our fellow Freepers.
Right now we may go up to 200,00 dead.
Or we may not.
That’s the conclusion me and my buddies have come to. This thing, if allowed to get out of control, must really be lethal.
Great America. Shove folks in air conditioned meat wagons and into body bags.
According to one website, we are supposed to get around 80,000 dead. Keep in mind, that is similar to 2017-18 which was a bad flu season.
This might shed some light on the topic.
or the 40,000 (?) we supposedly needed for George H.W. Bush’s Gulf War.
Does this mean I've been buying cheap Chinese body bags instead of the good old Made In The USA body bags?
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