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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Trump puts bodies in refrigerated trucks!!
The Clintons are planning a vigorous outreach I see.
Won’t all those refrigeration units contribute to
>GULP<
Global Warming???
When the sea floods NYC, won’t we need even MORE reefers?
Stop the madness NOW — Mass Graves
Well played...
Get pictures of the trucks. Probably near hospitals and morgues.
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I can remember ‘unnamed’ government agencies needing 4 wheel drive vehicles for inclement weather so you could drive into town and all these four wheel drive vehicles were ‘parked on the hill’ when the agencies were shut down for a snow emergency.
AND Hospitals and Govt agencies were ‘requesting/begging’ private owners to ‘donate’ their vehicles to transport personnel.
I guess all the vehicles had to be swapped every couple of years.
NOTE the title says requests 85 trucks and the article says they bought 85 trucks, and yes, with all restaurants etc being shut down there are a lot of trucks sitting idle... If nothing the trucks could be ‘comandeered’ and then more than likely demolished but use the old ones and replace them with new ones.
SO, lets buy BRAND NEW ONES for a one time usage..
No wonder they are ‘broke’. If one ran a business like most cities are run the owners wouldn’t only be in jail they would be bankrupt.
FUNNY what one can do with OPM.
All of a sudden, AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” started playing in my head. No idea why.
Wanna bet?
They have the Grateful Dead on ice?
Maybe Good Humor could loan Cuomo some trucks?
Why hasn’t NYC been quarantined yet?
So who pays for holding the bodies over time? Will the families be compensated?
I swear, cuomo is doing everything so that everyone goes bankrupt.
Upstate they're just doing cremations right now. Cheaper anyway.
Problem here is funerals.
They’re restricting any gatherings so ironically, funeral homes are taking a hit.
This happened the first serious weekend with a co-worker whose dad died. There will be no funeral.
I suspect the thought of putting them back in service hauling produce to supermarkets was a factor.
That brings up the question of who is privileged to be stored here?
Is it once again just COVID, like the ERs and hospitals? What about others with other problems?
Geesh this is a nightmare, mostly from the reaction by everyone.
Let's see... they put the bodies in the trucks for a few days...I hope they're embalmed first.
Who will want to go in there to retrieve them? Will the deceased be on gurneys? won't there be a shortage of gurneys then?
I think cuomo plans to incinerate each truck.
NYC probably wants people to leave so that they will be someone else’s problem if they get sick.
They could buy some well used crematoriums from china cheap. china says they don’t need them anymore.
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