They always incinerate bodies. With a population of 1.5 billion people, there is no room for graveyards. There are 27,000 deaths per day in China.
I was being sarcastic.
In the city of Wuhan they have 49 crematoriums. They generally run, it is reported, 4 hours per day, 5 days per week. They are now running 24/7. Each one is processing over 100 bodies per day according to multiple reports directly from the workers that are complaining about lack of manpower. That’s 4900 bodies per day at least instead of the usual 900 or so. With 2 extra days. In addition to the 49 incinerators they brought in another 40 industrial incinerators to dispose of “medical waste” (bodies qualify per CCP doctrine).
All of the above has been reported from multiple sources, so if’n you wanna fact check it, go for it.
Now, if those reports are true, there are a significant number more dead than the Chinese have reported. That is because the medical infrastructure has collapsed and they aren’t even trying any more. They simply throw the afflicted in their newly constructed hospitals (which don’t even have bathrooms) AKA Death Camps.
Would that happen here? No. We value human life, and our medical infrastructure has depth unlike the Chinese, which is a thin veneer of modern medicine over a witch’s brew of mysticism, herbal remedies and superstition. But to preserve the ability of our medical system to cope with a significant outbreak we need to stamp out any outbreaks as they occur. It is easier to put out the brushfires than to deal with a conflagration. Part of that is a degree of prepping. We won’t likely lose power or public services like water treatment for extended periods, but it won’t hurt you to stash some basics in case you find yourself inside a quarantine zone (like the ones already established in some first world countries). Then you can seal up the house and help the quarantine end earlier for everyone instead of being the guy that extends it for everyone ‘cuz you went out for food and got sick.
Beats letting them float down the Ganges River like they do in India.
Here in the good, ol' USA; CHOICE manages to kill over 3,000 a day.