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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They’re going to need them for ballots in November. Every confirmed kill is a guaranteed Democrat voter for the next 50 years
Ka-booooo-ki
Bodies today, produce tomorrow.
Sort of reminds me of the USS Vincennes (CG-49) ‘shoot down’ of the Iranian Air plane.
Miraculously a lot of bodies were found tethered together and bobbing in the ocean.
One of the theories was they sent an aircraft to be ‘shot down’ then planted all the bodies..
I remember exclaiming that ‘Oscar Lives’.
(Oscar is the name of the USN life saving practice dummy)
That seems to me to be an obvious question.
Ha!
Don’t leave out drug OD’s and murder.
Good grief. What drama.
Is there a hold up on said transfers, and if so who is causing the bottleneck? Other than having no right to bury your dead atm.
On a different tangent, how advantageous for anyone becoming or newly minted morticians. It may prove a good time to open a funeral home too. With a wrecked economy, a nice, big building may be rather cheap very soon.
I imagine tourism in NY City is way down. Can’t they just rent hotel rooms and put them there with the air conditioning on.
A bunch of fear bro’s on this thread. I call bs too.
The back porch / snow drift used to work when we lived there. Thank GOD we aren’t there now.
I haven’t been on Jalopnik for a while now - lately it’s all Coronavirus all the time. It’s almost as bad as when FCA released the Hellcat engine...
And let's be real....they should be cremated.
Did anybody else miss that part on first glance?
Beat me to the punch!
Stacking body bags in the hallway or out back under a tarp is just a tad bit of a health and Public relations crisis by itself.
There is barely enough room in a hospital morgue for the normal flu days. This shouldn’t “shock” anyone. Where else are you going to put them?
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