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re: New York Prisoners Offered PPE & $6/Hour To Dig Mass Graves For COVID-19 Victims
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:59 am to Tigahs24Seven
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:59 am to Tigahs24Seven
Multiple outlets are reporting it, but it traces back to one article by Ryan Grim in the Intercept.
"Ryan Grim writes that mayor Bill de Blasio's office confirmed the arrangement with Rikers Island, but claimed it wasn't "COVID specific" despite the PPE available to the inmates. The city morgues and cemeteries are already overwhelmed, and FEMA is sending 85 refrigerated trucks for bodies of those dying from COVID-19. The city already owns a public cemetery on Hart Island that has long been maintained by prison labor—and according to a 2008 pandemic preparedness report, that cemetery is meant for "temporary mass internment method" that involves caskets in rows of 10, lined up head to foot to avoid stacking."
Slightly different take on it above.
"Ryan Grim writes that mayor Bill de Blasio's office confirmed the arrangement with Rikers Island, but claimed it wasn't "COVID specific" despite the PPE available to the inmates. The city morgues and cemeteries are already overwhelmed, and FEMA is sending 85 refrigerated trucks for bodies of those dying from COVID-19. The city already owns a public cemetery on Hart Island that has long been maintained by prison labor—and according to a 2008 pandemic preparedness report, that cemetery is meant for "temporary mass internment method" that involves caskets in rows of 10, lined up head to foot to avoid stacking."
Slightly different take on it above.
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 8:00 am to Boatshoes
They have been burying homeless there for fricking years brah. Your article is bullshite.
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 8:03 am
Posted on 4/3/20 at 8:41 am to Boatshoes
Since when did we start using humans to dig graves when we have machines that can do it in 1/10 of the time.
This is absolutely stupid and you should be ashamed for spreading lies like this.
This is absolutely stupid and you should be ashamed for spreading lies like this.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 8:49 am to Boatshoes
Can journalism majors not do even the most basic math?
$0.50 -> $6.00 is not a 1,200% increase.
It’s 1,100.
Freaking idiots.
$0.50 -> $6.00 is not a 1,200% increase.
It’s 1,100.
Freaking idiots.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 8:52 am to Boatshoes
Please BAN yourself 
Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:13 am to Ace Midnight
quote:
don't believe this story is factually accurate.
Yeah it's just clickbait journalism.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:17 am to Boatshoes
So is NYC telling us that all the victims were homeless with no family to claim them?
Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:42 am to Boatshoes
Sure.., definitely a true story. Some of you fricks are beyond gullible. Good god.
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 11:23 am
Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:45 am to Boatshoes
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This post was edited on 1/8/21 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 10:27 am to Plx1776
quote:
then wouldn't it be better to just cremate the corpses?
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