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

Truth Detector said:
God you are a complete and utter moron; that's hazardous waste they are burying you idiot. Retard. No wonder you vote with the Party of the Jackass; you really are one. :rolleyes:
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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/
 
Cinnabar said:

Good goin' Sweet Potato Hitler!
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I was wondering which leftardiot would fall for this bullshit. This place has been in use for 150 years and is for people who die and are unclaimed.

There is ZERO evidence these are COVID deaths

How does it feel to be played by the media?
 
Truth Detector said:
God you are a complete and utter moron; that's hazardous waste they are burying you idiot. Retard. No wonder you vote with the Party of the Jackass; you really are one. :rolleyes:
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"anything but the truth" offers another classic, "that's hazardous waste they are burying," as I said, always entertaining
 
Teflon Don said:
I was wondering which leftardiot would fall for this bullshit. This place has been in use for 150 years and is for people who die and are unclaimed.

There is ZERO evidence these are COVID deaths

How does it feel to be played by the media?
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We know it is "medical waste," "medical waste" that just happens to be buried in boxes resembling pine coffins
 
PostmodernProphet said:
probably not a surprise that homeless people would be more susceptible to something like the coronavirus.....
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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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