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New York Prisoners Offered PPE & $6/Hour To Dig Mass Graves For COVID-19 Victims
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:29 am
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:29 am
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"Yesterday The Intercept’s Ryan Grim confirmed that what we reported last month had indeed come to pass and that prisoners from the notorious Rikers Island jail are now being made to dig graves. Inmates have been promised the princely sum of $6 per hour to risk their lives disposing of the disease-ridden victims, with authorities insisting that they will be given adequate personal protective equipment, a dubious claim considering that hospital workers in the city have had to improvise, wearing plastic trash bags as shields against the deadly virus.
Bizarrely, a spokesperson for Mayor de Blasio’s office said the offer was not related to coronavirus. This is hard to believe; inmates already conduct burials for thousands of poor, homeless or unidentified people on the island and, until yesterday, were paid only $0.50 for the work. Why New York City would suddenly be offering prisoners a 1,200 percent pay rise during a nationwide economic collapse that has seen even frontline doctors and nurses having their pay drastically slashed, if not due to the desperately urgent need for more labor, is unclear."
"Yesterday The Intercept’s Ryan Grim confirmed that what we reported last month had indeed come to pass and that prisoners from the notorious Rikers Island jail are now being made to dig graves. Inmates have been promised the princely sum of $6 per hour to risk their lives disposing of the disease-ridden victims, with authorities insisting that they will be given adequate personal protective equipment, a dubious claim considering that hospital workers in the city have had to improvise, wearing plastic trash bags as shields against the deadly virus.
Bizarrely, a spokesperson for Mayor de Blasio’s office said the offer was not related to coronavirus. This is hard to believe; inmates already conduct burials for thousands of poor, homeless or unidentified people on the island and, until yesterday, were paid only $0.50 for the work. Why New York City would suddenly be offering prisoners a 1,200 percent pay rise during a nationwide economic collapse that has seen even frontline doctors and nurses having their pay drastically slashed, if not due to the desperately urgent need for more labor, is unclear."
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:33 am to Boatshoes
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Dig Mass Graves For COVID-19 Victims
LMAO, so we are to mass graves now? Why don't we just nuke NYC and get this shite over with...
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:33 am to Boatshoes
That wouldn't make any sense. Most of those guys wouldn't last 10 minutes on a shovel. use an excavator. Profit.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:34 am to Boatshoes
How many lies can be crammed into one post?
"Mass graves"?
Complete bullshite.
"are now being made to dig graves"
Are they being *made* to, or are they offered "the princely sum of $6 per hour"?
Which is it?
"Mass graves"?
Complete bullshite.
"are now being made to dig graves"
Are they being *made* to, or are they offered "the princely sum of $6 per hour"?
Which is it?
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:36 am to Boatshoes
I don't believe this story is factually accurate.
I don't believe we are digging "mass graves" in the United States.
Unfortunately, since journalism is dead, we may never know.
I don't believe we are digging "mass graves" in the United States.
Unfortunately, since journalism is dead, we may never know.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:38 am to Boatshoes
Where are the mass graves?
Mass graves implies just one gigantic hole where many corpses are placed inside it.
Is the government forcibly keeping all covid19 corpses, just so they can bury them together with the aid of the oh so professional prisoner digging crew?
Mass graves implies just one gigantic hole where many corpses are placed inside it.
Is the government forcibly keeping all covid19 corpses, just so they can bury them together with the aid of the oh so professional prisoner digging crew?
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:40 am to Boatshoes
ZeroHedge. They are panic propaganda.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:43 am to Boatshoes
In this age of most everyone having a phone with a camera on them at all times if there were mass graves being built we would be seeing it. Another example of the media stoking fear on purpose
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:43 am to Boatshoes
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This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:50 am to Boatshoes
Anyone who believes there are mass graves being dug anywhere on US soil are a fricking idiot. With a capital F.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:53 am to Boatshoes
We have what, 4500 deaths across the ENTIRE NATION??? And the death rate in falling.
Who digs mass graves for that?
This misinformation abs fear mongering needs to stop.
Who digs mass graves for that?
This misinformation abs fear mongering needs to stop.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:57 am to Boatshoes
Posted on 4/3/20 at 7:58 am to Boatshoes
A Zero Hedge link quoting a source from The Intercept.
Yeah, you're gonna have to excuse my skepticism on this one...
Yeah, you're gonna have to excuse my skepticism on this one...
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 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.
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 9:45 am to Boatshoes
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