Report: Wuhan Province Cremating Hundreds per Day While China Reports Dozens of Virus Deaths

Breitbart ^ | 7 Feb 2020 | Francis Martel

[SoConPubbie]

A shocking report published Saturday local time by the Epoch Times revealed that crematoriums in China are struggling to keep up with the hundreds of bodies they are receiving, suggesting Beijing is undercounting the number of coronavirus deaths in the country.

The Epoch Times, a Chinese-American anti-communist newspaper, sent journalists to speak with the heads of several funeral homes and crematoriums in Hubei province – whose capital, Wuhan, is the epicenter of the current novel coronavirus outbreak. The newspaper found that adding up the total number of people cremated per day in several funeral homes yielded a significantly larger number than the official number of deaths tallied since the outbreak began in December.

The Chinese Communist Party alerted the world to the discovery of a new type of coronavirus on January 20, over a month after locals became aware of a disease spreading and 20 days after local officials shut down a wild meat market in Wuhan where the virus is believed to have originated.

According to the Epoch Times, the crematoria were handling “4-5 times the usual cremation volume” per day. Few of those cremated were officially confirmed as coronavirus cases.

“I received 127 corpses yesterday [February 3], and burned 116. Among them, 8 were confirmed [coronavirus cases] on the death certificate and 48 were suspected,” a funeral home director in Hubei using the pseudonym “You Hu” told the newspaper. “I am about to collapse, we are under great pressure now.”

The newspaper offered insight into a larger funeral home in Hankou, a Wuhan neighborhood, which it estimated had the capacity to burn 576 people per day. “. . .

[SoConPubbie]

They sort of have an ax to grind with the PRC government.

So do I, since they are Communist.

[firebrand]

He’s in New York.

[TigerClaws]

Just saw a video that the ‘next level’ globalism will involve the killing off most of humanity because humanity=evil and it’s the green thing to do.

Massive government control, complete economic chaos, suspension of civil liberties, killing off of the old and weak. Sounds like a liberal wet dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4TQO0JB7N0

[bunkerhill7]

Confucius say man in quarantine have time to burn.

[kidd]

What percent normally get cremated?

100% in urban areas

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...a funeral home director in Hubei using the pseudonym “You Hu” told the newspaper.

LOL. Somebody has a sense of humor and knows English very well.

[donozark]

The Chinese government has very long arms. They could still “Shanghai” him in NY or anywhere.

[blueplum]

crematoriums:
Hankou Funeral Home #1
Hankou Funeral Home#2
Wuhan Wuchang Funeral Home #1
Wuhan Wuchang Funeral Home#2
Hankou Funeral House (#3)
Qingshan Funeral Home
Wuhan Changyuan Mausoleum Funeral Home
Echeng Funeral House
Huangxuan Funeral Home in Hankou, Wuhan
Hankou Funeral Home 4, Wuhan Civil Affairs Bureau

From Epoch Times:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/funeral-home-worker-in-wuhan-epicenter-of-coronavirus-we-are-working-24-7-to-cremate-bodies_3227432.html
Because of the coronavirus outbreak, Wuhan’s Civil Affairs Bureau designated the Hankou Funeral Home to deal with the bodies of those who were diagnosed and died of the virus, according to state-run media. In addition, the Wuchang Funeral Home and Qingshan Funeral Home were designated to attend to those who died from severe pneumonia, or who were suspected coronavirus cases and died.
A worker at a Wuhan crematorium said in a Feb. 4 interview that he and his colleagues have worked 24 hours, seven days a week since Jan. 28. He said they are exhausted, and are working without proper equipment such as body bags, protective suits, and face masks.
“Since Jan. 28, 90 percent of our employees are working 24/7 … we couldn’t go back home,” a man identified as Mr. Yun told the Chinese-language Epoch Times in a phone call. He works at the Caidian Funeral Home, one of four facilities in a suburban area of Wuhan.

[firebrand]

Just donating a bit of information. I’m sure he is well protected.

[oldasrocks]

On a video we saw from Wuhan, smuggled out. The one guy said the were cremating 280 a day. About an hour and a 1/2 each and there were 9 other crematoriums doing the same amount.
Doctors are being force to list other things besides the flu as death certificates.

[firebrand]

These people have blood on their hands. Some fool listened to them spout this nonsense.

[HamiltonJay]

And what is the normal volume cremates a day prior to the virus?? Wuhan city is 11 million people

China’s average death rate per year is 8/1000 meaning when city alone has 88,000 deatha per year, which is 241 per day.

Wuhan province has about 58.5 Milllio, meaning there are 468,000 deaths per year in that province, or 1282 deaths per day.

I have no idea what percentage are typically cremated but one would assume that rate probably is higher due to precaution over the virus than in normal days.

But reports of hundreds of cremations a day, doesn’t really sound like it would be out of the ordinary in and of itself. Context matters.

[LucyT]

Calcified compounds within cremains can contain metals such as lead, boron, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, tin, lithium, magnesium, manganese, nicket and strontium. Metals such as aresenic and selenium, though present in a live human body, are volatile and decompose quickly upon burning.

Levels of toxic metals in cremains are not regulated although all non-combustible materials must be removed from the corpse. Pacemakers must be removed as they explode and will damage the furnace. Dental metal fragments must be removed. The body is burned within the coffin or a cardboard box.

Any bone fragments left after they cool are ground in a separate process and added to the ash. Fumes produced are computer controlled. The flue gases are vented to the atmosphere through a refractory-lined flue. The gases are at a very high temperature and are cooled.
However, gaseous emissions are by far the greatest source of cremation pollution.

In addition to harmless compounds such as water vapor, emissions include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen chloride gas, hydrogen fluoride, mercury vapour.

Organic compounds such as benzenes, furans, acetone are also emitted and these react with the hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride under combustion conditions to form polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) both of which are carcinogens.

A study by the Cremation Association of North America has found that filtering crematorium fumes has little effect on the toxins released.

However, when compared to yearly toxin release world wide, crematoriums contribute only a very small fraction of harmful compounds or greenhouse gases.
https://www.calgarymemorial.com/effect-of-cremation-on-environment.html

[RummyChick]

something from 4chan..for what it is worth

[donozark]

And it is appreciated. Just not sure what to make of all this.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

China has a normal average mortality rate of 8 people per year per 1,000 population. For a city of 11 million people, that is 88,000 people per year or 241 per day.

Sulfur is a trace element in the human body (0.4% per table below). Suppose the average weight of a Chinese person is 140 pounds. Then each body contains 0.42 pounds of sulfur. That's 101 pounds of sulfur per day from the normal mortality rate of 241 dead bodies per day.

If they are burning an extra 100 bodies per day in Wuhan because of the virus, then they are emitting a total of 143 pounds of sulfur per day.

I really doubt that is enough to change the atmospheric sulfur pollution in the area.

Element	Symbol	% in body
Oxygen	O	65
Carbon	C	18.5
Hydrogen	H	9.5
Nitrogen	N	3.2
Calcium	Ca	1.5
Phosphorus	P	1
Potassium	K	0.4
Sulfur	S	0.3
Sodium	Na	0.2
Chlorine	Cl	0.2
Magnesium	Mg	0.2
Others		< 1.0

[ASA Vet]

I do not see a reason to think the world is ending.

Of course the world is ending. Everything "ends."

In 7.5 billion the "world" will end by absorption into the sun.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Army and party officials recover at a much higher rate.

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I am beginning to wonder how much of the problem is due to malfeasance?

[Carriage Hill]

Barry Boy 0bummer’s friend, Billy Bob Ayers, wants to kill 25,000,00 Americans:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/2455-obamas-friend-ayers-kill-25-million-americans

[caww]

You’re not going to get a Caronavirus count from crematoria volume....although understandable their volume would increase since China requires bodies with the virus be cremated there’s no doubt bodies are taken there with a host of other illnesses especially anything respiratory. Further if China is paying for these cremations it’s highly likely many would take advantage of this to bury their dead and say they had Caronavirus symptoms.