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Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:26 am From the sounds of it Per Sweden is not all that different from Canada in its approach. While we have strong social distancing guides were are not in lockdown either. We are free to go out when we want just that we have to follow social distancing guidelines. One difference is restaurants are all closed for in house dinning. Only take out or delivery. Sounds like our grocery stores look at like like yours. Perhaps the difference is in terminology and not practice. Well ok all non essential shops are closed.

New York City will bury unclaimed bodies on a remote island after 14 days because coronavirus deaths are overwhelming morgues


The coronavirus pandemic is killing hundreds of people in New York City each day.

To accommodate the dead before families claim them, the city's medical examiner expanded temporary refrigerated storage to hold 3,600 decedents, up from the usual 900. Families have 30 days to claim their loved one.

However, a policy change posted to the medical examiner's website suggests that room is running out: Bodies that families don't claim within 14 days of death will be catalogued and interred in a mass grave site on a Bronx island.

Today, OCME's website said decedents who are not claimed by a funeral home within two weeks, would be sent to the Bronx's Hart Island, where a graveyard called "City Cemetery" contains more than 1 million unclaimed bodies — the largest such site in the US.

Strangelove wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:44 pm https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-cor ... als-2020-4

New York City will bury unclaimed bodies on a remote island after 14 days because coronavirus deaths are overwhelming morgues


The coronavirus pandemic is killing hundreds of people in New York City each day.

To accommodate the dead before families claim them, the city's medical examiner expanded temporary refrigerated storage to hold 3,600 decedents, up from the usual 900. Families have 30 days to claim their loved one.

However, a policy change posted to the medical examiner's website suggests that room is running out: Bodies that families don't claim within 14 days of death will be catalogued and interred in a mass grave site on a Bronx island.

Today, OCME's website said decedents who are not claimed by a funeral home within two weeks, would be sent to the Bronx's Hart Island, where a graveyard called "City Cemetery" contains more than 1 million unclaimed bodies — the largest such site in the US.

Yikes...

Topper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 8:46 pm Is there a voter registration booth there?

Per wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:42 am Boris is feeling better. Still hospitalized, but out of intensive care.

Harvey Weinstein is fully recovered.

Per wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:43 am Think this may actually have an impact on the view of health care in the USA moving forward.... ?

Per wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:43 am Think this may actually have an impact on the view of health care in the USA moving forward.... ?

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Over the past few days, I’ve been reading the major plans for what comes after social distancing. You can read them, too. There’s one from the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, the left-leaning Center for American Progress, Harvard University’s Safra Center for Ethics, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer.

I thought, perhaps naively, that reading them would be a comfort — at least then I’d be able to imagine the path back to normal. But it wasn’t. In different ways, all these plans say the same thing: Even if you can imagine the herculean political, social, and economic changes necessary to manage our way through this crisis effectively, there is no normal for the foreseeable future. Until there’s a vaccine, the US either needs economically ruinous levels of social distancing, a digital surveillance state of shocking size and scope, or a mass testing apparatus of even more shocking size and intrusiveness.