Texas orders extra body bags, mortuary trucks as it braces for more coronavirus deaths

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Source: CNBC

Texas officials and funeral home directors are ordering extra body bags and refrigerated trucks as they prepare for an increase in deaths from Covid-19, which has already killed 3,657 in the state.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week — on top of the eight already sent — to serve as temporary mortuaries, while some funeral homes are reserving their own trucks from private companies.

“The directors I’ve talked to in the last week are at capacity or over capacity, thus the reason they had to bring in the trailers,” said Gene Allen, president of the Texas Funeral Directors Association.

Travis County, where Austin is located, is in the process of procuring three extra mortuary trucks “out of an abundance of caution,” public

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/texas-officials-order-extra-body-bags-mortuary-trucks-as-state-braces-for-rising-coronavirus-deaths.html

[erronis]

1. Wonder if the MOA (Morticians Of America) made a huge contribution to trump...

to keep this pandemic going as long as possible.

Great gruesome business.

[IronLionZion]

5. Vice had an episode on the last responders

it's a gruesome and dangerous job to deal with dead COVID bodies.

[soothsayer]

6. Well ivanka has all those Chinese coffins

Too bad they’re not raging out of control like we are

[IronLionZion]

2. Sunshine and warm weather will kill the virus

If only Texas was warm and sunny.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. It's like a cryogenic mobile funeralgate

for those who remember funeralgate from the Bushco years

[cstanleytech]

4. They should be embossed with the Republican parties emblem so that

everyone knows who to point the finger at correctly.

[torius]

7. How much does Ivanka make

off the body bags?

[murielm99]

9. Designer body bags?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Probably Gov ABodyBagbot thinks body bags and truck rentals are cheaper than seniors' costs. . nt

[keithbvadu2]

10. The Trump admin did/does not have enough PPE but they have no problem with temp morgues.

The Trump admin did/does not have enough PPE but they have no problem with temp morgues.

[Champp]

11. Republicans own this

[Lonestarblue]

12. Some people are still in denial, or maybe they're just in a state of morbid stupidity.

I went to the grocery this morning and was waiting to check out, carefully standing on the floor signs showing six feet of space. A woman pulled her cart directly behind me, clearly not keeping the needed distance and making sounds of irritation. She was wearing a mask because the store doesn’t allow you in without one. I had turned to ask her to back up and stay six feet from me when a store employee walked over and sent her to a different lane. At least the grocery is taking the virus seriously if not all residents are. I just do not see an end to this. Too many people in too many states are now infected and passing the virus along.

[riversedge]

13. and the deaths continue.