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'We can't stop': Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak
www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | | February 05, 2020 12:13 PM | by Spencer Neale

Posted on 02/05/2020 11:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger

A crematorium worker in Wuhan, China, confirmed that officials are working at an alarming pace to burn the bodies of the deceased in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak.

"We need to pick up bodies when they call us. Every day, we need at least 100 body bags," a crematorium worker named Mr. Yun told the Epoch Times. “We can’t stop because we can’t leave the bodies outside for a long time."

Wuhan officials were accused of cremating the dead in secret last week, and Mr. Yun claimed the rumors are true as China adopts "draconian measures" to treat the outbreak.

Dramatic videos from Wuhan posted to social media apps this week show scenes of sorrow and panic as medical officials and police allegedly chase infected people through the streets and force patients, against their will, into ambulances headed to the hospitals. Other videos show officials spraying what is believed to be disinfectant spray from cement trucks onto deserted streets.

China has turned sports halls and exhibition centers in Wuhan into 11 temporary hospitals to treat the epidemic that has killed almost 500 people — although figures from the Chinese government have been contested by Western outlets.

Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has called for a travel ban to China and noted that the "only biosafety level four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens" is located in Wuhan.

Three airplanes have returned U.S. citizens from China in the past week, and one of the children aboard the first flight is being monitored for coronavirus after developing a fever.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; cremation; cremations; crematoria; crematorium; sulfurdioxide; wuhan
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1 posted on 02/05/2020 11:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

2 posted on 02/05/2020 11:07:36 AM PST by null and void (The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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To: Red Badger

One would think the UN truth-seekers are there to get the facts, and alert other countries of risks. Right?


3 posted on 02/05/2020 11:12:00 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Red Badger

“the epidemic that has killed almost 500 people”

That’s in a city that has something like 11 million people in its metropolitan area. That doesn’t seem all that serious, but they seem to be acting like it’s a lot bigger. Per capita, Chicago has probably had that many gang murders over the past few weeks.

Our policy should probably be to assume a really bad scenario, since the Chinese probably don’t even have the truth.


4 posted on 02/05/2020 11:18:57 AM PST by cdcdawg (Cornpop was a bad dude!)
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To: polymuser

Based on the tencent leak, the current death rate is <13.7% ...


5 posted on 02/05/2020 11:19:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: polymuser

Riiiiight................................


6 posted on 02/05/2020 11:24:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

any numbers comin out of Communist China is pure propaganda, and our corrupt media continues to accept them as gospel.

The number of dead is in the thousands...


7 posted on 02/05/2020 11:27:05 AM PST by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Red Badger

How do they know the output of the crematoriums through the smokestacks isn’t spreading stuff airborne?


8 posted on 02/05/2020 12:03:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Good point......................


9 posted on 02/05/2020 12:04:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Secret Agent Man

It takes a pretty tepid flame to turn a body into ash. Its between 1400 and 1800 degrees (f).

If the virus survives that, then we should just stop trying to prevent it.


10 posted on 02/05/2020 12:11:12 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Red Badger

See my #10.

Crematoriums burn up the body at temps over 1,400 degrees F.

I am 99% confident that ought to do the trick. Ha Ha.; Unless this thing can live on the sun.


11 posted on 02/05/2020 12:12:36 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

WE MUST NUKE IT FROM ORBIT TO BE SURE.......................


12 posted on 02/05/2020 12:14:38 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Vermont Lt
tepid?.......................
13 posted on 02/05/2020 12:18:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

I should have put a smiley face on the post. Lol.


14 posted on 02/05/2020 12:24:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Red Badger

Betting that worker being interviewed is now in a re-education camp if not worse


15 posted on 02/05/2020 12:27:55 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: polymuser

They only want the truth if it makes the US look bad. They won’t dare mess with China


16 posted on 02/05/2020 12:28:50 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Vermont Lt
I am 99% confident that ought to do the trick.

Out of the 500 bodies they claim to have smoked, that means 5 of them are now aersolized! Everyone hold your breathe!

The truth is no virus can survive fire as fire is simply too destructive. Viruses are really just genetic code and anything that destroys tissue as effectively as fire will render the code quite inoperative.

17 posted on 02/05/2020 12:29:25 PM PST by Malsua
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

He probably had a tragic crematory ‘accident’......................


18 posted on 02/05/2020 12:31:10 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: PIF

So if the one nurse who claimed there were 900,000 cases in China, that would be about 100,000 dead. Scarey!


19 posted on 02/05/2020 12:38:38 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

bkmk


20 posted on 02/05/2020 12:48:29 PM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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