Posted on 05/13/2020 2:38:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The number of people dying from the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico is five times higher than official government figures, according to health department insiders.
A Sky News investigations team working in the country's capital Mexico City has documented cremations and funerals and gained access to morgues and storage rooms full of bodies - all indicate the official data is wrong.
In much of Mexico City, the second largest city in Latin America, there is virtually no social distancing, with open air markets and some businesses operating normally, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The government claims that the virus curve has been flattened and that there will be a dramatic drop off in virus related deaths in the coming days.
Sky News has accessed multiple hospital morgues and filmed rooms filled with bodies in bodybags, lying on gurneys or even stacked on wooden pallets because the morgue fridges are already full.
There is currently a three-day backlog for cremation at every public crematorium in the city and crematorium workers in recent days have indicated that more burials will have to take place because burning capacity is overwhelmed.
Black smoke billows out over cemeteries as the ovens are cremating on an industrial level in the city but the bodies don't stop coming.
In fact, the ovens simply cannot cope and there are regular reports of breakdowns only adding to the backlog.
In full hazmat suits, crematorium staff are working around the clock bringing bodies to huge ovens for disposal.
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I didn't realize that Mexico City was the 2nd largest city in Central America. I always thought it was the largest.
Sao Paulo #1?
Different estimates. The UN has Sao Paulo as larger now:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-largest-cities-in-the-world.html
I would like a confirmation. Will ping for later.
When news came out about Wuhan at 11 million people (and shut down) I had to look up our populations. Pretty amazing.
NYC is something like 9 million people.
Then L.A. at about 4.5 million.
Chicago at 2.7, Houston at 2.3, and only 6 more over a million.
In the Seattle area they are (were?) building LOTS of 5-story high density housing condos. All crammed together as per Agenda 21 plans. And yes - there are documents on the net where the zoning makes proud not of that. A friend made the observation that most of these folks are coming from Asian areas where they are used to cramming an extended family into 600 sq. feet in a 40-story building and taking mass transit everywhere.
So coming to a place with 1,100 sq. feet and taking (and forcing) mass transit on everyone is a huge improvement for them. Many/most of these new housing units do not have parking facilities!
Neither Mexico City nor Sao Paulo are in Central America.
“There is currently a three-day backlog for cremation at every public crematorium...”
Every? They can know that how?
Or is the operative term “public”?
And for those who were wondering... The largest city in Central America is Guatemala City!
I flew over Mexico City many years ago, and it’s just surprising how big it is. It’s huge.
We needed (still DESPERTELY NEED) total moratorium on immigration.
It's indefensible that the can was kicked down the road for so long on that one.
‘Immigration’ is and will remain a national security, economic, social, health issue for decades because of the unrealistic PC and otherwise casual approach that was taken up to the point that Trump took office.
We cannot afford to backslide on that.
1100 square feet would be a luxury to most in NYC!
But yeah, people at this point would choose massive against Agenda 21 mass transit—too bad we don’t realize how little choice we will have!
Latin America, as referenced in the article, of course includes both South and Central America.
Has air pollution that are 10 Beijings!
Heavy reliance on “leaky” LP in homes.
I didn’t realize that Mexico City was the 2nd largest city in Central America. I always thought it was the largest.
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Mexico City sits firmly in North America.
Are headless bodies counted as corona deaths? Seems like a prime opportunity for the cartels to ramp up activities.
Mexico City is not in Central America. It is in North America. It’s the biggest city in North America. It’s population is slightly larger than New York City. However it’s the second largest city in Latin America or in the Americas in general, a few million behind Sao Paolo.
Mexico City is in North American, not Central America. And Sao Paulo is in South America.
The article uses the term "Latin America," however stupid that may be.
Backslide? We have never clamped down on immigration. Immigration just went down during the financial crisis, and now in the time of Coronavirus.
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