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Pentagon Seeking 100,000 Body Bags for Civilians in Virus Crisis
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:23 pm
Bloomberg
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The Pentagon is seeking to provide as many as 100,000 military-style body bags for potential civilian use as the U.S. warns that deaths could soar in the coming weeks from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested 100,000 body bags, known as Human Remains Pouches, through an interagency group that directed it to the Defense Department. The Pentagon is looking into buying more bags and will draw some initially from a stockpile of 50,000 it maintains, according to two people familiar with the request.
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Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:24 pm to Shane4689
The fact that the pentagon keeps 50k body bags on hand is disturbing in the first place
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:25 pm to Shane4689
This is getting out of hand
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:26 pm to Shane4689
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100,000 military-style body bags
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Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:27 pm to More beer please
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This is getting out of hand
It's been out of hand for weeks now. A portion of what we were warned about weeks ago is just now beginning to come to fruition. It takes a couple weeks for those most seriously affected to die. We're on the doorstep of that time frame now.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:29 pm to fr33manator
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The fact that the pentagon keeps 50k body bags on hand is disturbing in the first place
Is it though?
You didn’t expect the defense department to have supplies on hand for a conflict?
ETA: although I guess your surprise is warranted. Apparently we weren’t supposed to expect the 4-5 agencies tasked with safeguarding public health to have any medical supplies or equipment available for what may end up being the most predictable disaster we’ve ever encountered.
This post was edited on 4/1/20 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:29 pm to fr33manator
I actually thought not enough. We must have gotten rid of a lot of older ones.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:30 pm to TDsngumbo
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takes a couple weeks for those most seriously affected to die
It’s been here since January
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:30 pm to Chef Free Gold Bloom
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It’s been here since January
It hasn't been spreading the way it is now since January.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:31 pm to TDsngumbo
I was actually referring to the outrageous sensationalized journalism and sky screaming. But sure
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:31 pm to Chef Free Gold Bloom
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It’s been here since January
Actually it’s been here since November
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:31 pm to TDsngumbo
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hasn't been spreading the way it is now since January
How do you know? It mutated the way it’s transmitted?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:32 pm to Chef Free Gold Bloom
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How do you know? It mutated the way it’s transmitted?
How do you know it hasn't?
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:35 pm to Shane4689
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Bloomberg
Stopped reading
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:40 pm to Shane4689
Just burn the corpses, much cleaner and easier
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:41 pm to Shane4689
If only they kept masks like that
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:42 pm to fr33manator
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The fact that the pentagon keeps 50k body bags on hand is disturbing in the first place
That's not that many in the grand scheme of things.
Think Katrina.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:42 pm to Shane4689
To me it’s quite a jump from the 4-5k we have now to 100,000
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:43 pm to fr33manator
It seems low but I guess when the last big one was around 58,000 KIA and then just around 7000 KIA for Iraq and Afghanistan then hubris sets in.
Posted on 4/1/20 at 4:43 pm to Shane4689
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Human Remains Pouches
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