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p.s. dealing with all the

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 12:55:56 +0000

p.s. dealing with all the dead bodies IS a major problem:

Overwhelmed funeral directors across New York City are sending bodies out of state for cremation.

They get help from David Penepent, director of the funeral services administration program at SUNY Canton, via @pdberger https://t.co/IKkYAeW2gV pic.twitter.com/SId1V4ffaZ
— katie honan (@katie_honan) April 22, 2020

Although I have always thought funerals a very important ritual, I think about what I would do if I were in charge of dealing with a family member's death now, and there was no plot or crypt already purchased and maybe I have to be quarantined because I was with the person, then there;s the fact that people can't gather and there is no travel: just let go-get real, why spend any money on the body? Have a memorial service later, forget the body, as hard at that would be, what else is there to do? Cremation or abandonment to potter's field.

Yes I have been following

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:14:26 +0000

In reply to Meanwhile mas graves on Hart

Yes I have been following that. I wonder what to make of the censorship attempts. Doesn't make sense. Because it's really been our "potter's field" all along for the unidentified dead and I don't see any reason to hide it from us unless 1) they are trying to hide numbers--in which case I question why, doesn't make sense, or 2) some clueless cop is trying to "protect" us from knowing how many people abandoned bodies because they didn't want to or couldn't pay for funeral services in this situation, or WHAT? Again, because people have been buried there all along, it's what it's for, it's a cemetery island:

....The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, though since the first decade of the 21st century, there are fewer than 1,500 burials a year...

Hart Island (Bronx) - Wikipedia

Meanwhile mas graves on Hart

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 05:53:00 +0000

In reply to Staten Island Immigrants Pivot to Mask-making after Job Loss

Meanwhile mass graves on Hart Island...
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-seizes-drone-photojournalist-documenting...

Taiwan, what a country! (Such

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 03:55:16 +0000

In reply to Staten Island Immigrants Pivot to Mask-making after Job Loss

Taiwan, what a country! (Such a perfect contrast to the above, da socialist vs. da capitalist health care)

We received a most precious package today: masks! Distributed free of charge from the Ministry of Health to all citizens - the beauty of its universal health care system.
Thank you Taiwan pic.twitter.com/VGiaZ7x0My
— eileen chengyin chow (@chowleen) April 22, 2020