Funeral Home Worker in Wuhan: We Are Working 24/7 to Cremate Bodies

The Epoch Times ^ | February 4, 2020 | NICOLE HAO

[Pocketdoor]

At least its only 100 per day.

[laplata]

The Epoch Times is first rate. I am a subscriber.

[laplata]

Lol

[familyop]

Thanks for the word on the Epoch Times.

[familyop]

Some might want to read the details a little more closely.

"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."

That's one place for diagnosed cases and two for non-diagnosed cases (not counted in statistics). Now...

"He works at the Caidian Funeral Home, one of four facilities in a suburban area of Wuhan..."...Every day, we need at least 100 body bags,” he said."

That's four funeral homes with "at least 100 body bags" needed in only one of those funeral homes in a *suburban* area. The other three funeral homes are downtown. And how many more funeral homes are there around all of Wuhan? We don't know.

Do you see now? We don't know.

[ETCM]

It would have to be several orders of magnitude worse than reported to strain the crematoriums in Wuhan, a city of 11M people. Absent of any abnormal conditions, like an outbreak of disease, Wuhan likely sees about 250 deaths every day.

Epoch Times is a pretty good news source, particularly in Asia, but I hope they are wrong here.

[Rebelbase]

How many are dying not from CoronaV but from lack of medical care for other illness/conditions due to the hospitals being besieged by flu victims?

[laplata]

You’re welcome. I mentioned to someone that they’re first rate.

[laplata]

I see it was you that I’d mentioned to that they’re first rate. I’m up way past bed time.

[familyop]

Correction of something that I wrote earlier, because I didn't read carefully enough.

The first three funeral homes mentioned are "three main funeral homes in the downtown area." The fourth funeral home mentioned is "one of four facilities in a suburban area."

That's seven funeral homes. If each were to get 100 bodies per day, that would be a total for Wuhan of 700 per day. But we don't know the average daily for each of them, either.

[blueplum]

For Wuhan, I think you need to consider, a) 5M left Wuhan between the announcement of lockdown and lockdown (1 wk to go home); b) The night before the lockdown, count another half a mill. These are the wealthy/middleclass getting out of Dodge; c) workers returning to Guanggang from Wuhan was 3/4MM. Basically the middle/wealthy classes fled to airports or other provinces and the rest went home for the holidays. We don’t know how many of 1MM students got out but they’re not included in the pop probably and none are sick so leave them out. Which brings the number to around 6.3MM actual left in the city. Then calculate any increase in the rate of cremations from Wuhan on a ‘normal day’, it might be a clearer pix?

[Does so]

Viruses are tough. Is the PROCESS of cremation killing the virus or spreading it?

[Uncle Miltie]

Every day, we need at least 100 body bags,” he said.

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That is for one of three funeral homes. Multiply by three and you get 300 per day, 2,100 per week.

The Commies are reporting only around 500 dead TOTAL. So their lie is at least an order of magnitude. There must be many thousands dead.

[Abathar]

100 body bags the article said.

If Uncle Lee died of a heart attack, does that warrant a body bag though? I can’t believe that a body bag is used for every death in the city during a average day, they put them on a gurney, wrap them in a sheet, and drive them to the funeral home to be processed.

Body bags are expensive and a one-use item, why would they put someone in one for transportation. No one does that anywhere in the world I’m aware of except in situations where the processing time and it’s deemed necessary, like a body containing a viral pathogen that is highly contagious that may leak fluids.

[Vermont Lt]

It happens every day in the US. How do you think funeral homes transport bodies. Do you want the leaking mess coming out of dead bodies all over the back of your hearse. Sheets don’t cut it.

This isn’t Somalia..

[ncalburt]

thanks

[marktwain]

At least its only 100 per day.

100 per day *per funeral home*!

That sounds like 400+ per day to me!

[Black Agnes]

Quarantining tens of millions of people, and digging up the roads convinced me 2 weeks ago this wasn’t ‘just the flu’.

[Reno89519]

If this reflects a higher count, it will eventually catch up to the Chinese government. Maybe the quick closer by the US was in recognition of the reality of much higher mortality.

[Widget Jr]

My numbers are admittedly rough.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/five-million-residents-left-wuhan-before-coronavirus-lockdown-mayor-reports/

"Mayor Zhou Xianwang said about 9 million people remained in the city after the lockdown was imposed Thursday" [Jan 23]

"Ma Xiaowei, who heads the National Health Commission, told a press conference that battling the outbreak was complicated, particularly after it was discovered that the coronavirus could be transmitted even during its incubation period of one to 14 days."

So there are still around 9 million left in Wuhan. The five million that left was likely from the total metropolitan area around Wuhan. Plus the average is not constant, there are times of year when people are more likely to pass away. The bodies are being cremated, not buried, so other forms of burial are not being used, making the crematoriums really busy.

For now, I think the numbers coming out of China are accurate. The long term problem is while the Coronavirus is less lethal than SARs, it is much more infectious. This makes containing it much harder, means it will be around longer before it is contained, and a lot more people are going to die before this is over.