Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Dave Salove has watched his morgue fill with bodies. Covid-19 victims have poured into the funeral home he runs in Boise, Idaho, in recent weeks, as the state contends with an unprecedented spike in deaths driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus. His 16-slot refrigeration room is over capacity. Other funeral homes have neared a tipping point, too.

Intent on avoiding the makeshift morgues that cropped up in the Northeast during the pandemic’s first wave, Salove this week brought in a refrigerated trailer to hold the growing number of dead. By Friday, there were seven corpses inside, up from two the day before. Six more were on their way from another facility.

“I’d barely gotten it installed, and we had to start using it,” Salove said. “Right now, we are seeing that spike.”

As covid-19 deaths reach record highs in the state of 1.8 million, hard-hit areas are struggling to keep pace with the surge in victims. Some hospitals, funeral homes and coroners say they’ve been pushed to the limit. Some morticians have even started embalming bodies that wouldn’t normally need the procedure so they don’t have to refrigerate them, the Idaho Statesman reported.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/25/idaho-funeral-homes-coronavirus/

[durablend]

1. Pwning teh libs hard there

Keep it up

[olegramps]

21. Can I modestly propose the City Dump as a solution for the anti-vaxers.

[irisblue]

2. 41% of Idahoians are vaxxed

Source--https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/state/idaho#:~:text=Overall%2C%20734%2C326%20people%20or%2041.09,population%20have%20been%20fully%20vaccinated.


How many COVID-19 vaccines has Idaho administered?
In Idaho, 832,110 people or 46% of the state has received at least one dose.

Overall, 735,904 people or 41% of Idaho's population has been fully vaccinated.

owning the libs....

[sagetea]

9. Many people from Nevada

went to Idaho to get shots. I was one of them. I'm sure it went on the Idaho count and not Nevada's. I live in both states. Primarily Nevada.

sage

[sagetea]

10. Oregon and Washington

as well! Not just Nevada. There were even some from California.


sage

[ck4829]

19. Well, that percentage is going to go up now...

[Aussie105]

3. New building going up in London . . .

Excavation for the foundations had to stop because builders came across a 17th century plague pit.
Wife grew up in Bristol, England. New building going up close to where she lived, same, plague pit found.
They are common across Europe.

When room in morgues run out, what choice is there? Mass burials, all sensitivity for the dead and bereaved done away with.

People should have seen this coming.

Things are far from normal. And going to get worse.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Catacombs in Paris come to mind as well. They had to put them somewhere.

[SarcasticSatyr]

11. That sort of thing was to be expected ...

in a time before modern medicine, and modern embalming, and refrigeration .. what can you do when a city suddenly finds itself with hundreds/thousands of decomposing bodies. It's kind of surreal to find us confronting these issues in 2020/2021. For all our modern technology, we have learned nothing.

[ShazzieB]

18. Oh, some of us have learned plenty!

Amazing how many haven't, though.

[CrispyQ]

23. Social media has spread the stupid farther & faster than it ever spread before. -nt

[LiberalFighter]

4. Why don't they send the bodies to the billionaires

and they can send them to space?

[SarcasticSatyr]

6. Embalming them so they can do what?

stack em up like cord wood till they can figure out what to do with them?

[ColesCountyDem]

20. So that they don't start rotting like spoiled meat. n/t

[roamer65]

7. This is why we dig mass graves.

Cheap and effective.

[SuperCoder]

8. That's because...

Idaho is nothing but republicans and thus Trump supporter anti-vaxxers. Almost.

[JoeOtterbein]

12. Idaho or...

...Iodeado?

[greenjar_01]

13. More people in Idaho should stop believing idiotic conspiracy theories and go get vaccinated

against SARS-Coronavirus-19.

Then, they wouldn't be filling up the hospitals and the morgues.

None of this is complicated.

[ffr]

14. Ask any of those unvaccinated and most will tell you stories like this are made up

To trick people into getting the mind-control shots, the vaccine.

To them, it has to be so, because Fox Entertainment (News) has repeatedly told them so. There is no virus even. It's a hoax.

I'm not making any of that up. Don't even approach them on the subject either. They are rabid mad at anyone trying to talk sense to them. They are just irrational and gone.

[C Moon]

15. Wow. :O

[IronLionZion]

27. Some protesters claim they've been inside the hospitals to inspect

and didn't see any COVID patients, only crisis actors.

It's a bit disturbing this late in the pandemic when enough of them have seen friends, family, coworkers, etc. impacted first hand. The hoax that hides 686,000 dead Americans.

[Botany]

16. Once again they are "owning the libs."

Not only is Fox News filling their empty heads with misinformation but they are reading
Russian produced propaganda on their internet platforms.

BTW I am at the point if anybody refuses to get the vaccine and when they get C-19 they should not clog up
the hospitals, ICUs, and or take up anytime of medical professionals they should just go and die because the
reason this scourge is back is because these MAGA mouth breathers refused to get the vaccine.

[NCjack]

17. Churches whose preachers promote anti-vax should provide temporary

storage for their members.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

22. A year and a half in,

and still no plan for the surge of dead bodies.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

24. Town dump...call it the "Freedom Pile"

Seriously though...let the archaeologists sort it out
A few centuries from now.

[kairos12]

25. Create a Memorial to them. A statue of Darwin giving a thumbs down sign.

[IronLionZion]

26. They've been sending patients to neighboring states

it's been a problem in Washington state getting too many folks from Idaho.

I'm sure it's a coincidence that the pandemic is worst in red states now that have lots of unvaccinated people.

[NurseJackie]

28. Are mass-graves next?

Are mass-graves next? Just an open trench filled with body-bags... side-by-side... stacked like cordwood several layers deep... then covered with massive earth-movers and bulldozers?

Some morticians have even started embalming bodies that wouldn’t normally need the procedure so they don’t have to refrigerate them, the Idaho Statesman reported.

Embalming bodies that don't need it? I suppose that's a quick stop-gap solution, but even THAT won't last indefinitely and it certainly won't keep the spike in bodies from continuing to grow.

[ck4829]

29. A whole Herman Cain Award for the entire state

[madville]

30. Sounds like business is good. How long do they hold these bodies anyway?

You'd think they would speed up cremations or burials to keep the line moving.

[riversedge]

31. so sad. It did not have to be this way-the death way.