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'We can't stop': Funeral worker says Wuhan cremating ‘at least 100’ bodies a day amid coronavirus outbreak
www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | | February 05, 2020 12:13 PM | by Spencer Neale

Posted on 02/05/2020 11:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger

A crematorium worker in Wuhan, China, confirmed that officials are working at an alarming pace to burn the bodies of the deceased in the city amid the coronavirus outbreak.

"We need to pick up bodies when they call us. Every day, we need at least 100 body bags," a crematorium worker named Mr. Yun told the Epoch Times. “We can’t stop because we can’t leave the bodies outside for a long time."

Wuhan officials were accused of cremating the dead in secret last week, and Mr. Yun claimed the rumors are true as China adopts "draconian measures" to treat the outbreak.

Dramatic videos from Wuhan posted to social media apps this week show scenes of sorrow and panic as medical officials and police allegedly chase infected people through the streets and force patients, against their will, into ambulances headed to the hospitals. Other videos show officials spraying what is believed to be disinfectant spray from cement trucks onto deserted streets.

China has turned sports halls and exhibition centers in Wuhan into 11 temporary hospitals to treat the epidemic that has killed almost 500 people — although figures from the Chinese government have been contested by Western outlets.

Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton has called for a travel ban to China and noted that the "only biosafety level four super laboratory that works with the world's most deadly pathogens" is located in Wuhan.

Three airplanes have returned U.S. citizens from China in the past week, and one of the children aboard the first flight is being monitored for coronavirus after developing a fever.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; cremation; cremations; crematoria; crematorium; sulfurdioxide; wuhan
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To: Red Badger

And this is just ONE crematorium...


21 posted on 02/05/2020 12:49:06 PM PST by bayliving (Democrats, the Midas of feces...)
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To: null and void

I have zero doubt the Chinese are under-reporting this virus. but I would like to know what would a normal death rate be for a population of 11 million??


22 posted on 02/05/2020 12:49:12 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: DAC21
I have zero doubt the Chinese are under-reporting this virus.

Me too.

but I would like to know what would a normal death rate be for a population of 11 million??

Me too. Given the US population and death rate, about 83,000 of us die for every 11 million population each year.

No idea what the normal numbers are for China.

23 posted on 02/05/2020 1:04:57 PM PST by null and void (The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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To: Red Badger
I talked to a friend yesterday who had worked as an EMT for fifteen years. He said in all the pictures and videos he's seen of people being treated in China he hasn't seen anyone who has a connection to oxygen either with a tube and nostril piece or a mask. It struck him as unusual.

He said he had seen bad cases of flu routinely put on oxygen as part of standard treatment if they were ill enough to be hospitalized.

Anyone know if oxygen for hospitalized flu patients is unusual or fairly common?

24 posted on 02/05/2020 1:32:05 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: cdcdawg

We should quarantine Chicago too.


25 posted on 02/05/2020 2:04:50 PM PST by sphinx
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To: antidemoncrat

So if the one nurse who claimed there were 900,000 cases in China, that would be about 100,000 dead. Scarey!


Actually she is a doctor who speaks with a strong west Chinese accent so only native speakers can understand her correctly according to resident FR Chinese speakers - she did not use the word for infected when she was speaking - she did NOT say 90,000 infected cases, but rather 90,000 DEAD.

So it may be even worse than the Tencent leaked number


26 posted on 02/05/2020 2:10:20 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Red Badger

That really doesn’t agree with the official Chinese government death toll numbers. 100 bodies a day in one city should really be pumping up the number of death numbers.

Oh, that would be bad for business and panic the Chinese people into thinking their government was not protecting them.

Never mind.


27 posted on 02/05/2020 2:10:50 PM PST by Robert357
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To: Robert357

The people know the truth.

The government controls the Internet, cell phones and transportation.

The truth will get out eventually, after perhaps thousands of deaths and ghost town cities are torn down................


28 posted on 02/05/2020 2:13:20 PM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger
"We need to pick up bodies when they call us. Every day, we need at least 100 body bags," a crematorium worker named Mr. Yun told the Epoch Times. “We can’t stop because we can’t leave the bodies outside for a long time."

The death rate in china is about 7.7 people per 1.000 people per year.
(Look it up ,I did.)

Wuhan has 11,000,000 people, millions more than New York

11,000,000 divide by 1,000 times 7.7 dethe peer 1,ooo people equals 84,700 deaths a year to be expected in Wuhan.
Divide that by 365 days in a year equals 232 deaths a day normal in Wuhan.

So cremating 100 bodies a day may not be that unusual. -Tom

29 posted on 02/05/2020 2:30:12 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: Rashputin

I’ve been hospitalized for pneumonia before and was on oxygen the whole time.
Not sure about flu.


30 posted on 02/05/2020 2:43:43 PM PST by oldvirginian (I know not what course others may take but as for me Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: cdcdawg

If the article is correct and they are cremating 100 or so a day, its more than 500 people. The rather frenzied response of the government indicates something bigger than the annual flu is happening.


31 posted on 02/05/2020 3:11:15 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: cdcdawg

If the article is correct and they are cremating 100 or so a day, its more than 500 people. The rather frenzied response of the government indicates something bigger than the annual flu is happening.


32 posted on 02/05/2020 3:12:00 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

“They (UN) only want the truth if it makes the US look bad. They won’t dare mess with China.”

They’ll use lies about the US as well.

They like China — Chinese grunts in blue helmets confiscating Americans’ guns is their biggest wet dream.


33 posted on 02/05/2020 3:18:48 PM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: PIF

If true, very very very scary. Best be prepared to shut yourself in for 3 to 4 weeks if it becomes a pandemic.


34 posted on 02/05/2020 3:46:02 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: cdcdawg
the Chinese probably don’t even have the truth.

That explains the Iowa caucus returns.

35 posted on 02/05/2020 5:00:09 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Betting that worker being interviewed is now in a re-education camp if not worse

All the camps in China is likely a death trap.

36 posted on 02/05/2020 5:03:35 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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Under reporting staged (leftist lie)

Boxcars filled with corpses being hauled out of sight for mass burning is more likely.

Looking incompetent from top to bottom is fatal in CHiCom land

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37 posted on 02/05/2020 6:08:58 PM PST by elbook
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