Yes! I do know!
That’s my point....the obits, in EP, have always contained at least some personal tribute/story, to the deceased, written by their loved ones.
I have friends and family in EP, so I’ve been familiar with their usual number and style of obits, for decades.
So, you’re saying that suddenly, in the past couple of weeks, people have just become unable to pay for stories, to go with their obits? This, after decades of ALWAYS having a tribute/story?
Also, the number of obits did NOT go up, significantly, or commensurably....considering this ‘rise’ in China Flu deaths....until the past week, with these ‘empty’ obits.
I find it quite odd.
I imagine these are Mexican nationals aka illegals, who are being counted in these China Flu numbers.
You may be right. It could be something more sinister.
i read in Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Diary”,(published in Autumn, 1930) that he noticed the obits from rural areas were getting significantly higher in number and shorter in length.
“Beloved grandmother, passed away suddenly”.
This was at the time the Nazis were cleaning out the old age homes and mental wards of “Lives devoid of value”, as they called them.