Mass Graves NYC Covid 19

This footage, I must say, shocked me. Mass graves on Hart Island NY 2020. They are burying them in cheap wooden caskets, two or three deep by the looks of it. What a year this is turning out to be

a reply to: harold223
Can you provide a link to the page you got this from please?

Oh.... its on yt.

Thanks.

originally posted by: harold223
This footage, I must say, shocked me. Mass graves on Hart Island NY 2020. They are burying them in cheap wooden caskets, two or three deep by the looks of it. What a year this is turning out to be

So people are just being buried willy nilly?

No families, friends, funerals?

Seems a bit odd to me.

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

And they're using prisoners for the labor.

Stoke those flames.

Never give up.

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: harold223
Can you provide a link to the page you got this from please?

Oh.... its on yt.

Thanks.

The source is the Washington Post.

Almost as credible as the average youtuber.

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: harold223
Can you provide a link to the page you got this from please?

Oh.... its on yt.

Thanks.

The source is the Washington Post.

Almost as credible as the average youtuber.

Original source was Associated Press. It makes me sick to the stomach to see this

a reply to: harold223

The Intercept did a piece on Rikers Island inmates being paid to dig said Graves.

The caveat a lot of these stories will miss is that this has been a practice going back some time in NYC. Obviously this new situation is going to add to it.

are families not allowed to recover the body?

I first saw this on the evening news tonight in Australia. I was eating my dinner when I saw it. Really sad.

originally posted by: harold223

originally posted by: Wide-Eyes

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: harold223
Can you provide a link to the page you got this from please?

Oh.... its on yt.

Thanks.

The source is the Washington Post.

Almost as credible as the average youtuber.

Original source was Associated Press. It makes me sick to the stomach to see this

Well I'm yet to believe it. There could be anything in those containers.

I don't think we're at the point of just dumping bodies in the ground. At least not yet.

Why not just cremate them?

Maybe it's for the homeless, poor people with no family or money etc, for proper funeral?
Probably happens all the time regardless of pandemics.
Like previous poster said if this is true surely cremation would be much more effective and efficient.
Great footage for keeping the populace in fear mode though.

originally posted by: wheresthebody
are families not allowed to recover the body?

Your username is very apt for that question!

a reply to: Osirisvset
The remains of more than a million people are on Hart Island.
Hart Island (Bronx) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org...(Bronx)

originally posted by: Osirisvset
Maybe it's for the homeless, poor people with no family or money etc, for proper funeral?
Probably happens all the time regardless of pandemics.
Like previous poster said if this is true surely cremation would be much more effective and efficient.
Great footage for keeping the populace in fear mode though.

Correct you are, I read earlier today it's where they bury people in NYC with no next of kin and I believe also the unidentified.

If I can remember where I read it I'll retrieve the link.

a reply to: harold223



As Virus Kills, NYC shortens deadline for claiming bodies google search

Last responder: A day in NYC with a funeral director google search

originally posted by: CriticalStinker
a reply to: harold223

The Intercept did a piece on Rikers Island inmates being paid to dig said Graves.

The caveat a lot of these stories will miss is that this has been a practice going back some time in NYC. Obviously this new situation is going to add to it.

Okay, that explains things a little better.

Business as usual then.

a reply to: harold223

the city put out a press notice and the mayor said it was a possibility. there is a thread already somewhere on ATS.
so i'm guessing they decided to do this and as one member said he said it would be on hart island and other parks.

i can't find the article used in the other thread, so here is another one.

Apr 06 2020

NEW YORK — New York City may soon have to conduct temporary burials of coronavirus victims as the death toll overwhelms morgues and crematoriums, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday. People killed by the disease could be temporarily interred at Hart Island, the city’s sprawling potter’s field.

“If we need to do temporary burials to be able to tide us over to pass the crisis, and then work with each family on their appropriate arrangements, we have the ability to do that,” de Blasio told reporters Monday.

N ew York City prepares for temporary burials of coronavirus victims

originally posted by: wheresthebody
are families not allowed to recover the body?

I have read elsewhere that the bodies are held for a period of 14 days. If the bodies are not claimed by then, they are buried on Hart Island. They are catalogued so that the bodies location is known for later disinterment if necessary.

It has been a practice for some time. Here is a NY Times about the potters field on Hart Island from 2016... over a million people buried there.

Here is an info page on the island from NYC Department of Corrections. Families can visit and reclaim bodies after they have been interred there.

a reply to: blend57

And Julie Sidoni has a fairly giant head for TV.