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2020-03-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

New York City's [2008] emergency 'surge plan' for a severe pandemic calls for Rikers Island inmates to dig mass graves to bury up to 51,000 bodies as coronavirus cases increase

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

New York State is reporting more than 140 confirmed coronavirus cases

Meanwhile, New York City has in place contingency plans for a pandemic

Response plan was drawn up by chief medical examiner in October 2008

It includes scenarios of a pandemic where mortality rate exceeds 2 per cent

In such a case, the city expects a death count exceeding 51,000

City would deploy teams of medical students, morticians to remove cadavers

Inmates at Rikers would be sent to Hart Island in the Bronx to dig up mass graves

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-10 02:13|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Not trying to foster panic.

Posted by gorb 2020-03-10 05:18|| 2020-03-10 05:18|| Front Page Top

#2 So that's how they're gonna whack Harvey Weinstein...

Posted by Raj 2020-03-10 10:37|| 2020-03-10 10:37|| Front Page Top

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