Posted on 04/13/2020 7:59:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Mortuary suppliers have told BBC News they have no stocks of standard body bags left for sale, blaming the shortage on stockpiling due to the coronavirus pandemic.
New stocks from overseas cannot be sourced for many weeks, they say.
The NHS says it currently has adequate stocks but health workers report having to wrap bodies in sheets.
Public Health England said the virus that caused Covid-19 degraded quickly after a patient had died.
And there was no specific need for body bags to be used to transport these corpses, although "there may be other practical reasons for their use".
Barber Medical, which has the NHS contract for mortuary supplies, said availability of zipped mortuary bags was a real problem and they could not be sourced anywhere.
The company has, however, increased the availability of polythene bags, known as body pouch bags, and urged any hospital or trust struggling with supplies to contact it.
A major supplier to undertakers also told BBC News it could not get hold of body bags, because of stockpiling.
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UK’s problem
While I can’t say about the UK, I would venture that in the US, the national mortality rate this year is virtually the same as 2019, 2018, 2017. Perhaps the mortality rate in the UK has truly spiked but I would be surprised.
Yeah - like TP I can never find them in stock on Amazon... let alone get a delivery time!
So solar powered/wind powered incinerators aren’t working out?
I’m sure there are plenty around.
TP stock should be returning to normal fairly soon. A few weeks ago, I put a bunch of 1990s era magazines out for collection because I am working from home and had both time and a need to reduce what was stored in my basement in order to accommodate my work computer and two screens.
More fear-mongering by the corrupt media.
blaming the shortage on stockpiling not the number of dead. Another inflammatory sensational headline
Interesting. Fewer people are dying from all causes than before this virus broke out. I’m missing something here.
Never mind. This explains it: “A major supplier to undertakers also told BBC News it could not get hold of body bags, because of stockpiling.”
Body bags are the new TP.
Wrap them in plastic and put them in a cardboard box in a referigerated area. Or ask President Trump. He’ll help GB out.
50 gallon contractor trash bags, fetal positions zip ties.
Your welcome.
American solution.
Well, they need to give that mouthpiece dude from WHO a call, he’s got plenty of body bags to generously pass out. At least that’s what he said.
Among today’s problems this is a small one. There are alternatives to body bags just as there are alternatives to toilet paper.
“We are in danger of having a Mine Shaft Gap!”
There’s no shortage of plastic drop cloths.
BS!
Just contract body removal out to the Mob. They will get things done.
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