https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaN6NREprmw
Here’s a video to go with your numbers. Mass burial (temporary from where I have read on FR) of deceased on Hart Island, NY.
With them laying large sheets of plywood over the stacked coffins, I would presume that is true - temporary burials.
Hmm. Looking at google earth, it appears since 2007 the island has been used for mass burials with long trenches. Images from 2018 shows a trench with plywood sheets.
So now I’m not so sure this will be a temporary burial. On the youtube folks were saying this area is used for unclaimed dead - it is in/near The Bronx. I’m guessing it is cheaper for the city to bury them than the family.
In the video it shows lots of vertical white pipes. I’m guessing those are to vent the gases (methane?) from the decaying bodies.
They use the plywood to “cut off” the end of the daily burials. They did a really long ditch, and fill it in as they go.
They were doing between 25-35 burials a week prior to the flu.
They are doing that much a day for the past week.
Hart Island has been used for a long time as the City’s Potters Field.