1/ In South Texas, funeral homes have set up their own temporary morgues.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 21, 2020
Crematoriums are running overtime. Families wait more than a week to bury loved ones.
For body couriers and funeral workers, there's no letup in sight. https://t.co/Z8UyqeTVMa
My new hobby horse.
Yeah, there's another end of that pipeline of people going into hospitals and not going home again.
Yesterday, Texas reported more than 4,000 total deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. The last 1,000 deaths came in just 10 days.— Rebekah Allen (@rebekahallen) July 21, 2020
The first 1,000 deaths happened over 53 days.
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That's 20 people a day. And it's not evenly distributed. One county had 284 deaths. Those bodies have to go somewhere. And from my experience with funeral homes, they aren't "disposed of" within 12 hours. They have to go somewhere before they meet their final destination.
3/ Here, the government has dispatched mobile morgues.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 21, 2020
Refrigerated trucks are popping up behind hospital wards and funeral homes.
Bodies wrapped in plastic or sheets line up on their floors. https://t.co/Z8UyqeTVMa
In Texas, the "Valley" is virtually invisible. Shouldn't be that way, but it is.
5/ All of this is straining an industry that handles the mechanics of death.— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 21, 2020
Like this body courier. He picks up dead bodies and delivers them to funeral homes and the morgue. In a normal week, he gets 10 jobs.
This past weekend, he picked up 38 bodies. https://t.co/Z8UyqeTVMa pic.twitter.com/WTx5HBiLdy
7/ Kimberly Foerster's father died this month. She learned his body wouldn’t be cremated for about a week because the ovens “overheated” from overuse and broke down. https://t.co/Z8UyqeTVMa— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 21, 2020
This is verging on full-blown catastrophe. Rome is burning, and still Governor Abbott fiddles.
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