Posted on 03/30/2020 9:21:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video.
The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue outside Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, according to a man shooting the clip who does not identify himself.
“This is for real. This is Brooklyn,” a man filming the terrifying event can be heard saying in the video.
“They putting the bodies in the 18-wheeler … this is no joke … this is Brooklyn Hospital,” the man says as he begs for people to “stay inside” as the deadly virus continues to pummel the city.
The trembling man continues, “This may make you want to take this serious.”
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148 people per day die in NYC average, of all causes.
About 90 died of covid related yesterday?
Can’t see how that would overwhelm a system of transporting the bodies. A thousand, yes.
Take it seriously, but the over the top hysteria on both sides on this site is ridiculous.
Maybe maybe not but if these were bodies there is absolutely no way a guy with a phone taking vids would be allowed so close that he can touch the truck and go eye to eye with one of the workers. No way in hell he’s able to do that.
And we need to keep in mind that most hospitals do not have an endless supply of morgue spaces...people die at hospitals from other things besides COVID-19...
“I don’t know ANYONE who has CV or even anyone who has been exposed to it. “
I know a pilot I trained (American) died from it. His wife is in the ICU. Two of the passengers (he was a private pilot) int he private plane he flew are in the ICU.
This is Texas and Mississippi.
The passengers are elderly. The pilot was in good health, late 50s. No idea about his wife. I assume about the same.
I am going to take a guess and say this is real.
1. The hospital morgue probably doesn’t want the body/bodies in their morgue, so they are using the truck as a temporary staging area.
Why does it take 6 or 7 people to load a dead body onto a truck?
This may have been a very large/obese patient, already in poor health that didn’t make it.
And I’m guessing that normal funeral home and burial operations have been disrupted due to social distancing. So everyone goes on ice, not just the Corona victims.
It may...most hospitals have limited morgue space, so even a slight increase may require moving fatalities to other locations...and if funeral homes are on “lock down” and not processing fatalities, or if the death is suspicious or from criminal act, forensic investigations may be slowed by COVID 19 restrictions, so it can cause a backup. However, that does not mean the fatalities are COVID 19...
The fork lift is a nice touch.
Just more gaslighting.
Don’t know what they are doing with the bidirs in Brooklyn, but the scanner has been crazy with calls today.
We are an odd culture. On one hand blood, gore and death are celebrated at the movies while the real thing is met with horror, shock and disbelief.
Ditto that
Is the truck going to the Soylent Green factory?
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