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Bodies stacked to the ceiling as Covid creates backlog at Florida crematories

10 points| belltaco | 4 years ago |wfla.com | reply

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[+] anorphirith|4 years ago|reply
she also says "4 vans deep", "no end in sight" I'm pretty sure "stacked to the ceiling" is a figure of speech in this case. the only good metric is that they were doing 4 funerals a day before delta up to 8 now.
[+] josh_today|4 years ago|reply
Complete fear mongering click bait title with zero data to prove higher deaths versus any period in the past.

Full of quotes like “WESH called 20 funeral homes and crematories and many were too busy to be a part of our story”

When did that become journalism

[+] troydavis|4 years ago|reply
Here’s a source with stats: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/florida-covid-deaths.h...

> This week, 227 virus deaths were being reported each day in Florida, on average, as of Tuesday, a record for the state and by far the most in the United States right now. The average for new known cases reached 23,314 a day on the weekend, 30 percent higher than the state’s previous peak in January

Lots more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-ca...

[+] belltaco|4 years ago|reply
The funeral home director mentions doubling of the normal number of dead bodies brought to them.