Posted on 03/26/2020 3:05:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As of this morning, New York reported over 33,000 cases of coronavirus, and 325 dead. The state, however, estimates that it is still two to three weeks away from suffering under the deluge of peak infection. Accordingly, the New York Times reports that the state has requested 85 refrigerated trailers from FEMA to house the anticipated number of bodies as a result of COVID-19.
New York City has additionally purchased 45 refrigerated truck trailers on its own, Bloomberg says, with each one being able to hold 44 bodies, respectively:
Michael Lanotte, executive director of the New York State Funeral Directors Association, said: “These units are essential to ensure that decedents are treated humanely while they await transfer to a funeral home.”
“It’s a whole new temporary world that we are all trying to navigate,” he said.
The city is sending a “Mass Fatality Management” plan to medical facilities, laying out technical specifications for the trailers, known as Body Collection Points. The trailers must be cooled to a temperature of 37 degrees, documents for their purchase show.
“The city’s five morgues have a capacity of 800 to 900,” the Bloomberg report added. At the upper bound, that would provide the city with a capacity of 1,980 additional bodies to be stored until burial.
The additional 85 trailers requested for the state would provide an additional capacity of 3,740 bodies.
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Ping.
Bring out your Dead.
For a ride in a nice cool air conditioned truck.
well, they might just be able to fill up 85 trucks, people dying of heart attacks, suicide and panic disorders, and shock.
I wonder if I should volunteer to haul the trailers.
Sensationalism at its finest,
Make one large Vietnam Wall style tombstone.
They had to purchase them? They couldn’t’ve just rented them or leased them?
Total BS!
Will they still vote?
Are they only doing clinical trials on a few people in NYC what gives
The reason the morgues are filling up is because all burials have been suspended - from deaths NO MATTER THE CAUSE.
But PEOPLE ARE STUPID.
Once on the live side and once on the dead side
BS!! Show me the bodies!!
“To House The Coming Dead”
I bet it’s unionized only.
GET IN THE TRUCK.
“But I’m not dead yet”
GET IN THE TRUCK I SAID!
Agree....In an epidemic and in reality, the bodies should be cremated.
Absolutely, and for Cuomo to the last one.
Sounds improbable.
325 dead....They should be gone in two days.
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