Coronavirus: New York using mass graves amid outbreak

[SheltieLover]

[link:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52241221|

Images have emerged of coffins being buried in a mass grave in New York City, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak continues to rise.

Workers in hazmat outfits were seen using a ladder to descend into a huge pit where the coffins were stacked.

The location is Hart Island, used for New Yorkers with no next of kin or who could not afford a funeral.

The state's confirmed caseload of Covid-19 jumped by 10,000 on Thursday to 159,937, of whom 7,000 have died.

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[madaboutharry]

1. That place looks like somewhere out of a horror movie.

How awful for those souls to end up in a place like that. It breaks my heart.

[SheltieLover]

3. Me too!

[Dennis Donovan]

2. More here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213260468

[pansypoo53219]

4. plague pit has history. like disasters of old. found a plague pit of sort while going around a

cemetery. catholic too.

[Squinch]

5. Hart Island is our "potters field." There are always burials there.

I think the news is only that there are many, many more these days.

I don't have any information about this, but I would imagine they always wear hazmat suits, given the nature of the work. Though I DO know the work is usually done by inmates so who knows if they are protected?

[malaise]

6. There are mass graves for cholera victims right across the Caribbean

from a huge epidemic in the 18th century.
Recently new buildings have been rising and nones have been taken away int he middle of the night.

[Igel]

7. I don't understand why people are surprised or shocked

Every city, every county, has a place to bury or dispose of the unclaimed dead.

You get 6000 dead, most of which are elderly, and you're going to get corpses unclaimed by the deadline. Perhaps the mate is on a ventilator. Perhaps the kids have moved away. Perhaps they have no close relatives, at least in NY. Perhaps they have nobody to claim them that knows they need to be claimed, or they're undocumented and afraid.

Mass graves are big news when there's a coverup. "Twenty people have died"--but then why the mass grave of 500 coffins?

It's like throwing an egg against a brick wall and being surprised when it breaks. There's a cause, the effect follows but is completely unexpected.