New York City will soon need to face the “gruesome reality” of temporary burials, and they could take place in trenches dug in city parks, NYC Council Health Committee chair Mark Levine said in a tweet this morning, NBC News reports.
Due to the number of dead bodies increasing on a daily basis due to COVID-19, the freezers at OCME facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn will soon be full, Levine said.
This means that the city could have to turn to temporary internment in city parks, Levine said. “Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line. It will be done in a dignified, orderly — and temporary — manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take,” he wrote.
Soon after — as the tweet gained attention — the chair added that trenches in parks were only a contingency the city was preparing for. “But if the death rate drops enough it will not be necessary.” The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told NBC 4 it was a scenario in the OCME disaster plan, but not something currently being considered or planned for. The mayor said Monday that temporary burials were something the city “may well be dealing with,” but would not go into further detail.
In the initial multi-part tweet thread Monday, Levine said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner “city morgue,” hospital morgues, funeral homes and cemeteries were dealing with the equivalent of an ongoing 9/11. Using city parks for temporary burials would avoid scenes like those in Italy, Levine said, where the military was seen collecting bodies from churches and even off the streets.
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Am I the only one that feels the media is purposely writing stories to scare us all for reasons that I am not sure about?
Like when the New York Times article showed a picture of two patients sharing a ventilator but then said, “New York-Presbyterian is using ventilator sharing for only two patients at a time who need settings on the ventilator that are very similar. Dr. Beitler emphasized that each patient is still receiving the same amount of oxygen and level of care as previously. …The hospital has not yet run out of ventilators, but Dr. Beitler said it was better to try the technique now than “when you have absolutely no choice.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/health/coronavirus-ventilator-sharing.html
Like when CBS news made a “mistake.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cbs-news-admits-mistake-after-airing-footage-of-overcrowded-nyc-hospital-that-was-actually-in-italy
Like when hospitals say that they have patients waiting for beds but the Javits Center hospital has plenty of empty beds.
Like when Cuomo screams we need ventilators when he admits that there are 1,000 ventilators in New York storage.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/01/fact-check-does-new-york-have-stockpile-unneeded-ventilators/5097170002/ (April 1)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to the claim that day, saying, “Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where the supposed to be because we don’t need them yet. We need them for the apex.”
I am not denying that people are dying, tragically. Are they getting proper medical care? Are they listed as Covid-19 deaths because they died WITH Covid not necessarily BECAUSE of Covid?
Try to decipher these instructions given to doctors about what to write as cause of death:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-1-Guidance-for-Certifying-COVID-19-Deaths.pdf
Cuomo just said he is not aware of this. He was never told nyc has an issue with space and will start burying in parks.
That sounds extremely unsanitary and unhygienic.