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

While it is not known how many those people died from coronavirus, but it makes sense that the number of deaths have doubled since the pandemic. Not the first time either.

Since the mid-1800s, New York City’s potter’s field on Hart Island, off the coast of the Bronx, has figured in numerous epidemics affecting New York City — as a burial ground during the Spanish Flu and AIDS crisis, and a quarantine spot for yellow fever and tuberculosis victims.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-hart-island-burial.html
 
Originally Posted by countryboy
How the fuck would this be the President's fault? You stupid sick bastard.


Your emotional "shout" posting style amplifies how stupid that rhetorical Q is. So thanks.

You may as well assert a Potus is impotent by definition. Look at what a person does and what he fails to do in comparison to reasonable care,
that is the measure for even reguslar civilian conduct. A potus has the highest fiduciary duty for all of his citizen's safety.

To say Trump can not be examined to this standard is to give a physical reality (this virus) a superstitious power, which is in itself
unsurprising for a rightward.

To answer your dumbas attempt to shut down the opposition question, that answer includes:

slow to respond
downplaying the realty
30 other issues
 
Hello Dutch Uncle,

Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed. The better sourced a post, the more likely it is to be accepted as truth.

As it is, a city of 8 million people is going to certainly see a lot of dead paupers every day and not just from COVID-19. Let's not forget that the chronically homeless are unlikely to get flu shots and most have underlying health issues, often coupled with mental illness.

In the end, I accept the COVID-19 death totals from reputable sources...and those numbers may not be known for a few months.
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And in reality we know there will be more deaths than are actually recorded in those official counts.

The one thing we can say from the confirmed deaths is that it is at LEAST that many.
 
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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True. Most people have always known the place as Potter's Field.
 
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