Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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Just look at the death statistics in New York City.

And the fact of mass burials in Potter’s Field, where unclaimed people are buried. I suspect many homeless people perished.

They don’t do mass burials, except in really desperate circumstances.

i'd hate to be in a mass burial... eye-rolling/obvious but i mean..for when I die I at least want a bit of earth separating me from other people.

i don't want a gravestone or anything fancy just a bit of earth that doesn't have to be shared by lots of other bodies immediately (and not as a result of deterioration & soil compression making it inevitable over centuries)

that's actually quite tragic.

mass burials are done in genocides and other avoidable things.. like recently, Burma what they did to Rohingyas....
to think of it being done out of necessity out of anyone's control is shocking.

From what I am reading about New York's Potter's Field on Heart Island, about 25 caskets are buried there per week. In the drone footage that has been circulating, 40 caskets were being buried. All the extra trench area was dug only in case it is needed. I think a lot of people are seeing this footage and saying mass burials are taking place. But that is not what is happening at this time. This is another example of things looking worse and or being perceived worse than they actually are.

When you look back in history to the Spanish flu pandemic, this is what occurred in Washington D.C. over a hundred years ago.

Washington was engulfed in disease. The Federal Government was becoming crippled. Over half of the employees of Herbert Hoover’s Food Administration were sick.

The little staff that remained in the Departments of State, War, and Navy was frequently marched outside and asked to breathe deeply. This was done hoping that it would cause the germs to leave them, however it never worked. Congress even closed its public galleries. Still, the infection spread. Numerous policemen and trolley drivers fell sick. So many firemen were sick that it was said the whole city would burn down to the ground if a fire ever got started. The Washington Star even began publishing a column of famous people who had died of influenza.

Health Service epidemiologist and specialist in malaria control was selected to be Washington D.C.’s Health Czar. He divided the city into self-contained units. Separate medical, nursing, and volunteer staffs served each district. A new law was made stating that no one could knowingly expose himself or any other persons to infection of the epidemic influenza. It was now a crime in Washington to knowingly transmit influenza. It was also unlawful for the sick to go out in public.

Many people in the nation’s capital began wearing gauze or cheesecloth facemasks. These masks were minimally effective even when used properly. A few loose layers of gauze created no limitations to throngs of microbes. Dr, H.S. Mustard realized this, he called the masks an absurdity. People, however, still wore them.

Every hospital bed in Washington D.C. was full. Soldiers were ordered to dig graves as fast as they could. However, there were no coffins for the graves. Coffins had become a rare and expensive product.

The masks we have now are effective though, hopefully?

Yes that was the one. Thanks!

Www1.nyc.gov is where you find the death statistics for COVID19. Overall death statistics can be found in the NYC Department of Health site.

My wife is a nurse. In the front lines. She says there’s way more deaths than usual.

This is for real. No BS.

They almost certainly have death statistics for previous years.