Aerial video appears to show burials of unclaimed covid-19 victims and others

Legion said:
And there's no evidence whatever that any of the unclaimed bodies succumbed to the Chinese disease.

Hart Island has been used as a burial ground filled with mass graves for a century and a half.
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So has the Hudson. How does that change anything?
 
Legion said:
No, it's not.

The city cemetery on Hart Island is indeed tragic. It has been for the past 151 years.

"Since 1869, prison labor has been used to bury unclaimed and unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves of 150 adults or 1000 infants," states the Hart Island Project website. Families of those buried there were only allowed to start visiting in 2014.

"Since 1980, 68,955 people have been buried in mass graves on Hart Island," notes the Project, which is dedicated to telling stories of those laid to rest there.

That's around 1,724 people per year, 33 per week, or a little under five per day for the past 40 years. New York City Department of Corrections spokesman Jason Kersten puts the average a little lower, telling Reuters that prison laborers bury around 25 bodies on Hart Island each week.

Kersten now estimates that there are upwards of a hundred coffins per week being buried there. So, yes, there appears to be a recent spike in burials in these mass graves.

But that's not because there are so many dead that the city has run out of burial space elsewhere. It's because more people are dying right now, and that includes people who don't have anyone to claim their bodies.

That is very sad, and it says something about what happens when the new problem of COVID-19 collides with old problems like isolation and homelessness. It doesn't mean New Yorkers have resorted to just dumping bodies into unprecedented mass graves, and journalists should not imply that it does. (Cue The Guardian: "Aerial video shows mass grave on New York City's Hart Island amid coronavirus surge.")

Kersten said the city hired contractors to add "two new trenches in case we need them."

https://reason.com/2020/04/10/no-nyc-is-not-running-out-of-burial-space-due-to-covid-19/
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TY; he's still a fucking moron blaming Trump and claiming it is from Covid. ;)
 
archives said:
"anything but the truth" offers another classic, "that's hazardous waste they are burying," as I said, always entertaining
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Unlike a thread trolling moron like you, I have been corrected by Legion. It is hard to believe they bury people like this in a former industrial area. I was under the belief that we cremate these people.

It's still moronic to suggest this has anything to do with Trump or the Corvid 19 virus shit-for-brains.
 
Truth Detector said:
TY; he's still a fucking moron blaming Trump and claiming it is from Covid.
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Indeed. Anyone unfamiliar with NYC history could have made the same error.

Attempting to insinuate that the coffins are full of dead Chinese disease victims (as this OP and Loon already did today) is reprehensible.
 
Truth Detector said:
Unlike a thread trolling moron like you, I have been corrected by Legion. It is hard to believe they bury people like this in a former industrial area. I was under the belief that we cremate these people.

It's still moronic to suggest this has anything to do with Trump or the Corvid 19 virus shit-for-brains.
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It was never an industrial area.

The island's first public use was as a training ground for the United States Colored Troops in 1864. Since then, Hart Island has been the location of a Union Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field with mass burials, a homeless shelter, a boys' reformatory, a jail, and a drug rehabilitation center. Several other structures, such as an amusement park, were planned for Hart Island but not built. During the Cold War, Nike defense missiles were stationed on Hart Island. The island was intermittently used as a prison and a homeless shelter until 1967, and the last inhabited structures were abandoned in 1977. The island now serves as the city's potter's field, run by the New York City Department of Correction until 2019, when the New York City Council voted to transfer jurisdiction to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island_(Bronx)
 
Legion said:
It was never an industrial area.

The island's first public use was as a training ground for the United States Colored Troops in 1864. Since then, Hart Island has been the location of a Union Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field with mass burials, a homeless shelter, a boys' reformatory, a jail, and a drug rehabilitation center. Several other structures, such as an amusement park, were planned for Hart Island but not built. During the Cold War, Nike defense missiles were stationed on Hart Island. The island was intermittently used as a prison and a homeless shelter until 1967, and the last inhabited structures were abandoned in 1977. The island now serves as the city's potter's field, run by the New York City Department of Correction until 2019, when the New York City Council voted to transfer jurisdiction to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Looked like an industrial area from the pictures. ;) All that aside, why not cremate?
 
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