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posted by martyb on Saturday July 18 2020, @12:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the R.I.P. dept.

With morgues brimming, Texas and Arizona turn to refrigerator trucks:

Officials in Texas and Arizona have requested refrigerated trucks to hold the dead as hospitals and morgues become overwhelmed by victims of the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

"In the hospital, there are only so many places to put bodies," Ken Davis, chief medical officer of Christus Santa Rosa Health System in the San Antonio area, said in a briefing this week. "We're out of space, and our funeral homes are out of space, and we need those beds. So, when someone dies, we need to quickly turn that bed over.

"It's a hard thing to talk about," Davis added. "People's loved ones are dying."

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:01AM (3 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:01AM (#1023326) Journal

    The image of mass cremations wouldn't look good on a campaign poster.

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  • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:41PM (2 children)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Saturday July 18 2020, @02:41PM (#1023377)

    VOTE TRUMP

    VOTE DEATH

    Was that the sort of text that would go with the cremations image?

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    Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:54PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @05:54PM (#1023434)

      Nope, tagline "50% of them were Democrats" gets Trump the win.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:26PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2020, @08:26PM (#1023478)

        Are you sure about that? My sense is that people take it mighty personally if Mom or Grandma die from covid because of federal government dithering and incompetence, even if she was an old-guard Democrat.