NYC morgues near capacity

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Yikes, working at a hospital dedicated to only treating COVID patients will be hard place to be.
 
I was thinking about this earlier; to have a loved one die and not be able to have the funeral must be especially challenging for the emotions of the survivors. While not gathering together the loved ones of the person that passed is good sense, it also feels disrespectful in some deep sense.

Not that my thoughts on this were purely abstract. I’ve got family that unfortunately doesn’t take this seriously and are members of higher risk groups. I’m a bit surprised at how much information on the current state of things hasn’t penetrated their world view. It was only yesterday that I was explaining to one of them that an infected person can be asymptomatic.
 
Does anyone know how they handled burials during the Spanish flu?

During the Middle Ages they had mass burials and burnings but I’m pretty sure we can handle it better now!
 
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I was thinking about this earlier; to have a loved one die and not be able to have the funeral must be especially challenging for the emotions of the survivors. While not gathering together the
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It is worse. People brought to the hospital in serious condition as separated from family. The family is kept away and they die alone. And then there is no viewing, funeral service, or wake.
 
It’s true. No visits from family at the hospital, no wake, no funeral, just the burial and that after waiting days.

Lord have mercy.
 
I just had this conversation with my sister regarding our mother. Neither of us live near our father’s resting place, and probably won’t be able to travel to it during this crisis. Our mother has Alzheimer’s and lives in a nursing home.

Even if she doesn’t contract coronavirus, it wouldn’t be possible to have a funeral or wake now.

I hope she lives at least until I can visit her again.
 
Sounds extremely lazy, not to take a sample that could be tested later.
 
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