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COVID-19 has killed thousands in Idaho. Funeral homes are struggling to store bodies
Idaho Statesman ^ | SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 4:37 PM | KYLE LAND AND RACHEL SPACEK

Posted on 09/26/2021 12:35:05 AM PDT by Armscor38

Stephanie Garcia was scared to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

But after the Post Falls funeral director lost her father to COVID-19, and a stream of new victims began pouring into the building, she became even more scared of the disease. In one weekend, Bell Tower Funeral Homes, where she works, received six bodies. Five had died of COVID-19.

She got her first shot soon after.

“That was a real eye-opening moment for me,” Garcia said. “That drove it home.”

The number of Idahoans dying of COVID-19 is on the rise as the state goes through its worst surge of the pandemic in terms of severe disease. Hospitals, funeral homes and coroners now find themselves tasked with figuring out how to manage the bodies filling their morgues to capacity.

(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; deaths; idaho; kyleland; rachelspacek
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1 posted on 09/26/2021 12:35:05 AM PDT by Armscor38
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Sounds as if Idaho is stacking the bodies up like cord wood out along the fence line.

“...the coroner’s only has seven spaces for bodies. As of Monday, three of those spaces were full...”

Oh. Wait.

However, it does sound like Idaho is seeing a large spike in deaths, and lots of families being affected.


2 posted on 09/26/2021 12:44:54 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

Wonder how many illegal immigrants were dumped in Idaho would be interesting to find out!!!


3 posted on 09/26/2021 12:50:08 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: 21twelve

On Sept. 16th, The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) has activated Crisis Standards of Care.

https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/idaho-expands-crisis-standards-care-statewide-due-surge-covid-19-patients-requiring-0


4 posted on 09/26/2021 12:51:30 AM PDT by Armscor38
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To: Armscor38

Just went to the CDC’s tracking website. There have been 2,753 COVID-19 deaths in Idaho since January 21, 2020. So the story’s “thousands” is in the low thousands. But it does show 140 deaths for the past 7 days in Idaho so Idaho clearly is experiencing a COVID-19 “spike”. Hopefully they’re at the top of their wave and it will soon begin a rapid descent in cases and deaths.


5 posted on 09/26/2021 12:56:26 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: 21twelve
Close friend lives in Hailey. Yes Idaho is bad. It's mostly in the areas that have a lot of illegals. Also places which see alot of transients from KKKalifornia, Seattle and beyond, (i.e. Ketchum). Those big egos come in "vaccinated" but still carrying a big viral load, acting as superspreaders to the servants. That's the way she figures it.

Friend won't go shopping except at off hours, won't go to her gym, won't go out to eat, und-und-und. Driving her a bit stir-crazy, despite being vaccinated herself back in March 2020.

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How a liberal rag like the Statesman survives in bright red Idaho still boggles the mind.

6 posted on 09/26/2021 1:03:28 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Armscor38

Folks, take a look at the obits from the local funeral homes.


7 posted on 09/26/2021 1:09:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Post Falls in right on I-90, direct route from Seattle to Coeur d’Alene. More of those vaccinated superspreaders, I’ll warrant. Coughing on the gas pumps.


8 posted on 09/26/2021 1:10:06 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I’m waiting for some self-righteous mortician to get on the news and say “I refuse to bury any COVID19 fatality who didn’t get a shot.”


9 posted on 09/26/2021 1:11:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

There is also a large Muslim population near the Chobani plant.


10 posted on 09/26/2021 1:13:50 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: 21twelve
There is a spike right now but it's falling, but last winter the numbers appear to have been more over the same one-month period.

Odd....I don't recall morticians whining about the dead back then.

11 posted on 09/26/2021 1:13:58 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: House Atreides

The only way for this story to be ‘realistic’ is if the state only has a total of five funeral homes.


12 posted on 09/26/2021 1:14:32 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Folks should go read the obits from the local funeral homes.

They’re interesting.


13 posted on 09/26/2021 1:21:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: 21twelve

This is the perfect time to start culling any way they can; all they have to do is blame it on KungFlu..


14 posted on 09/26/2021 1:23:00 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: 21twelve

Very seldom do people have a funeral with the deceased. Nearly all are cremated. I would wonder if this story is accurate, or just baloney.


15 posted on 09/26/2021 1:25:09 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Can you explain how she was vaccinated in March 2020, the month of the first lockdown? She must have been in the very first vaccinw trial? I’ve never heard of a person vaccinated that early.


16 posted on 09/26/2021 1:26:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: healy61

mostly funerals out here in mormondom.


17 posted on 09/26/2021 1:31:48 AM PDT by glock rocks (orange man bad-ass)
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To: Armscor38

according to google

2,754 total Covid deaths in Idaho

a current 7-day average of 17 per day


18 posted on 09/26/2021 1:47:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Armscor38

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/idaho.division.of.public.health/viz/DPHIdahoCOVID-19Dashboard/Home

Canyon County to the southwest of Boise is the hottest spot


19 posted on 09/26/2021 1:52:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ( )
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To: Armscor38

Idaho & Tennessee are tracking about 1 death per 100K residents. Florida is almost 1.6/100K.


20 posted on 09/26/2021 1:54:30 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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