New York City plans to temporarily bury coronavirus victims in a park

[Recursion]

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https://theweek.com/speedreads/907102/new-york-city-plans-temporarily-bury-coronavirus-victims-park

New York City is looking more and more apocalyptic every day.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives in the U.S's coronavirus epicenter, every aspect of city's resources for managing the dead have been overloaded. So to deal with the influx of dead bodies that have overtaken morgues, funeral homes, and cemeteries, the city will soon begin using a park for temporary burials, New York City Councilmember Mark Levine announced Monday.

Levine, the chair of the council's health committee, explained in a Monday tweet thread how the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is "now dealing with the equivalent of an ongoing 9/11." Deaths in hospitals are dramatically rising, but so are the numbers of deaths in homes; 20–25 people are usually reported dead in their homes every day in New York City, but that's risen to 200–215. Overall daily death counts have also doubled.

So to avoid "scenes like those in Italy" where bodies have been found on the streets, New York City will likely soon use a park for "temporary interment" where "trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line," Levine wrote.

Jesus. Christ.

EDIT: Levine wants to clarify that this is not currently happening, but the city is preparing for if the death rate doesn't slow down.

[Bayard]

1. Holy Crap!

Is this what we've come to?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. A Paupers' Field with living corona virus in each corpse.

CV in the soil in a concentrated area.

What could possibly go wrong?

[riversedge]

3. I am wondering why cremations are not taking place??--if family, person wants it??...

maybe they are??

A urn can be set aside for a proper ceremony--with family friends later.

[Throck]

4. Why not cremation?

[SledDriver]

16. I'll bet Trump and Miller would love that

Their own Holocaust...

[Throck]

21. From an environmental standpoint it's always been a best option.

[Alex4Martinez]

5. This doesn't seem credible. Will wait and see.

There are 555 other ways to handle this.

[tavernier]

7. This

[malaise]

6. Cuomo just said this is not true n/t

[Recursion]

8. Here's councilmember Levine's tweet

Link to tweet

[cwydro]

10. Thank you.

[Zoonart]

12. Beat me to it.... see #9

[malaise]

13. Hi there

[Recursion]

18. So, Levine is saying NYC is not currently doing this, but making plans to

Which AFAICT is all the article claimed: NYC is making plans to do this if the death count doesn't slow down.

[defacto7]

20. I think he said he hadn't heard about it and was against it.

I suppose he could override it.

[Zoonart]

9. Cuomo just said this is a rumor.

[Recursion]

11. Then he needs to tell his councilmember who's tweeting it that

Link to tweet

[malaise]

14. Hope it's not this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213241714

[tblue37]

15. "Coronavirus burial pits in Iran so vast they're visible from space"

?itok=T7xFgB2v

[obamanut2012]

17. 1. my car is literally visible from space, and 2. that is not the US

[tblue37]

19. No, it's Iran. I thought everyone had already heard about that story. nt