Temporary mass grave in public parks
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It wasn’t a bunch of crap and it wasn’t fear mongering. They floated the idea and got pushback.
Note they’re still planning for temporary internment if it’s necessary. It’s apparently been in their ‘tier 2’ or ‘tier 3‘ contingency planning for over a decade. In the discussion yesterday they said Hart Island was a consideration but they preferred not to have to deal with the security issues (it’s partly controlled by Dept of Corrections) so they were looking into using an out of the way part of a public park instead.
That’s not just a random councilman either, he heads the health committee.
My guess is once word got out they realized any logistical inconvenience of using Hart Island paled in comparison to the political problem with using some out of the way park space.
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So they go from ordering mobile morgues (a smart, prudent, and unfortunately necessary move) to planning on digging mass graves in the park? Because that makes so much more sense than renting more mobile morgues or even commercial refrigerated trailers and/or shipping containers. Instead of trying to get the old Krasdale refrigerated warehouse up and running, let’s go straight to bodies wrapped in Hefty bags buried in the park.
There’s being prudent and planning for worst case scenarios and then there’s hell, I don’t even know what to call this, but the situation is bad enough as it is and doesn’t need public officials imagining scenarios orders of magnitude worse than it is and feeding those those same thoughts to a ratings hungry press and a confused and scared public.
