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originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: neutronflux
Why are you asking me? You said something stupid, I pointed it out. Now you’re asking me something completely unrelated to what I said? Try reading the articles. There’s a priest mentioned by name talking about how there’s a backlog because “it takes time and the dead are many.” He can answer your inane questions better than I, since they’re his words and not mine.
originally posted by: neutronflux
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: neutronflux
Why are you asking me? You said something stupid, I pointed it out. Now you’re asking me something completely unrelated to what I said? Try reading the articles. There’s a priest mentioned by name talking about how there’s a backlog because “it takes time and the dead are many.” He can answer your inane questions better than I, since they’re his words and not mine.
Because the reality of the situation is people are waiting in most cases to lay their family members to rest when funerals are legal again.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Alien Abduct
And where is there an abnormal rate of flu mortality in the USA this flu season.
But panic and use all bold face and stuff.
I used bold to get his attention because he is ignoring my hard questions and good logic.
I haven't said anything about the flu so I have no idea what you are talking about as far as that.
the crematory in his city is “unable to dispose of all the work it has to do,”
originally posted by: Shamrock6
originally posted by: neutronflux
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: neutronflux
Why are you asking me? You said something stupid, I pointed it out. Now you’re asking me something completely unrelated to what I said? Try reading the articles. There’s a priest mentioned by name talking about how there’s a backlog because “it takes time and the dead are many.” He can answer your inane questions better than I, since they’re his words and not mine.
Because the reality of the situation is people are waiting in most cases to lay their family members to rest when funerals are legal again.
Source please.
Italy’s Coronavirus Victims Face Death Alone, With Funerals Postponed
www.nytimes.com...
As morgues are inundated, coffins pile up and mourners grieve in isolation: ‘‘This is the bitterest part.’’
ROME — At around midnight on Wednesday, Renzo Carlo Testa, 85, died from the coronavirus in a hospital in the northern Italian town of Bergamo. Five days later, his body was still sitting in a coffin, one of scores lined head-to-toe in the church of the local cemetery, which is itself closed to the public.
His wife of 50 years, Franca Stefanelli, would like to give him a proper funeral. But traditional funeral services are illegal throughout Italy now, part of the national restrictions against gatherings and going out that have been put in place to try to stem the spread of Europe’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus. In any case, she and her sons could not attend anyway, because they are themselves sick and in quarantine.
Reports out of Italy are indicating that they don't have enough crematories to keep up with the influx of corpses.
Funeral services are overwhelmed in Bergamo, the northern Italian city hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, with a crematorium operating 24 hours a day
Italy’s Coronavirus Victims Face Death Alone, With Funerals Postponed
March 16, 2020
An emergency national law issued last week banned civil and religious ceremonies, including funerals,
originally posted by: Tearman
Don't be the retard that causes someone to die. You might be pretty safe from this virus, as far as you know, but your neighbors, or your family members, or your coworkers or your friends might have an underlying condition, perhaps that they don't even know about, that will put them in serious risk. The way this virus kills is agony. Don't be the one that condemns someone to that fate. Start enacting the mitigation measures right now.
“Unfortunately, we don’t know where to put them,” said Brother Marco Bergamelli, one of the priests at the church. He said that with hundreds dying each day, and with each body taking more than an hour to cremate, there was an awful backlog. “It takes time and the dead are many.”
originally posted by: neutronflux
How are bodies being cremated if funerals are banned as stated in the article from March 16th?
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: neutronflux
How are bodies being cremated if funerals are banned as stated in the article from March 16th?
It says it right there "civil and religious ceremonies, including funerals,"
The ceremony where people gather to pay their respects have been banned. Not the actual disposal of the bodies.
Your disputing Italy is on lockdown and funerals are banned.
Your referring to what is happening in a single city as all of Italy to fear monger. It really is that simple.
On 9 March 2020, the government of Italy under Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte imposed a national quarantine, restricting the movement of the population except for necessity, work, and health circumstances, in response to the growing pandemic of COVID-19 in the country.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: oldschoolwarhawk
CDC webpage says during the 2018-2019 Flu season in America, 808,000 were hospitalized and 61,000 died.
Source w/Age Breakdown: www.cdc.gov...
For CoronaVirus-19 to fill the 200,000 available ICU beds, will require over 100 million people to be infected, since only 2/10th of 1% require hospitalization at all.
All of Italy is in lockdown as coronavirus cases rise
By Valentina Di Donato, Emma Reynolds and Rob Picheta, CNN
Updated 2:50 PM EDT, Fri March 13, 2020
www.cnn.com...
Over the weekend, blanket travel restrictions were announced in just certain areas. The rest of the country will now join the northern provinces under lockdown -- one of the toughest responses implemented outside of mainland China to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control