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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said "This horrible situation that occurred with the funeral home in Brooklyn is absolutely unacceptable — let's be clear about that," he told reporters during a conference call.The reason for this is that funeral parlors and morgues have been told not to handle 'Covid-19 bodies' because 'they literally contain The Plague'...
"Funeral homes are private organizations. They have an obligation to the people they serve to treat them with dignity," the mayor said, adding, "I have no idea how they would let that happen." [He] questioned why the funeral home did not contact the state or the NYPD for help with the body situation.
"It is unconscionable to me," de Blasio said. "You're talking about the deceased loved ones of family. I'm sorry, it's not hard to figure out if nothing else is working, call the NYPD," said the mayor. "It was an emergency situation."
De Blasio added, "I'm very disappointed they didn't do that ... They do bear responsibility, they should have figured it out."
The corpses were stacked on top of each other in the trucks. Fluid leaking from inside created a terrible smell and caused neighboring store owners to call the police, according to sources.You expect me to work that scene, you'd better give me some better than N95 or whatever. More like separate air supply. (And, say $10K per hour, I guess.)
and Tom Hanks."Saving Private Ryan".
Corpses began being stored in the trucks after the company's freezer stopped working correctly, an anonymous official told the New York Times.
The owner of Pemco supplies, a kitchen appliance parts supplier near the funeral home, called the situation a "disaster." "They were storing them in U-Haul trucks; we knew what was going on but not the extent," the owner said. "One thing to be [killed] by the coronavirus, another to be treated inhumanly."
John DiPietro, who owns a neighboring property, said he had observed cadavers being stored in the trucks for at least several weeks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was on the scene, but could not confirm any details of the storage. Adams said the city needed to ramp up staff for a "bereavement committee" to deal with the surging deaths due to the coronavirus. "We need to bring in funeral directors, morgues, [medical examiners], clergies ... when you find bodies in trucks like this throughout our city, treating them in an undignified manner, that's unacceptable."
Crematorium all over are working flat out. Seems it takes between one and three hours to process one body. Some also remove implants, like hip and knee and so on for recycling. The metal is very valuable and IMO the right thing to do. Some give the proceeds to charities, most don't.What, no organs?
It is not generally spoken about by the people involved. After all, who's going to be impressed when someone asks what you do? E.g., Cute girl at bar: "What do you do for a living?" Reply:
"Oh, I pick up the bodies from the hospitals and homes and crime scenes."
Girl:
But those jobs have ALWAYS been getting done. Now, as a part of the economy lockdown these jobs ain't getting done. It DOESN'T mean that Covid1984 is doing the killing.