The reality. CBS This Morning - New York City digs mass graves at Potters Field for unclaimed Coronavirus victims

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We must all do what we can to continue the fight.

CBS This Morning 04/10/2020 (You Tube)

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......Hart Island....that is where they bury bodies that have not been claimed........

[Acer]

I understand what's in the drone footage is going on all the time, COVID or not, so it's not as extreme as it may first appear. But I'm sure there are or will be many COVID cases in there.

[Robert M]

Acer,

If that picture doesn't make people understand the reality of the pandemic, then this video from Italy ought to do it.



it’s a video of the Italian army taking coffins away in Bergamo as morgues and cemeteries deal with the number of Covid-19 deaths. And, it’s not a hoax. It’s confirmed true via multiple sources.

Robert

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Robert M wrote:
Acer,

If that picture doesn't make people understand the reality of the pandemic, then this video from Italy ought to do it.

The one that did it for me was the video of the Italian fella who flipped to the obituary section of a newspaper from early February that had 1.5 pages of listings. He then flipped to the obituary section of a newspaper from mid March that had 10 pages of listings.

That was a real "Holy crap!" moment for me.

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Acer wrote:
I understand what's in the drone footage is going on all the time, COVID or not, so it's not as extreme as it may first appear. But I'm sure there are or will be many COVID cases in there.

The report mentions they are digging new mass graves specifically for Coronavirus victims.

[Robert M]

N-OS,

The pandemic hit home for me as I saw on the news what was happening in hospitals just a couple of miles from home.

Today was an especially difficult day for me because I found out a doctor on the front lines - someone I grew up with and knew from elementary school through high school - caught the virus. It hit him incredibly hard and he was hospitalized, on a ventilator and in an induced coma for two weeks. Fortunately, he recovered and is now resting at home with his family.

It's horrific enough when you hear about strangers catching the virus and getting incredibly ill or dying from it and seeing the footage at the hospital. Then you find out someone you know caught the virus and nearly died from it. That ups the nightmare that is the pandemic another notch or three.

Robert

[Janit]

Acer wrote:
I understand what's in the drone footage is going on all the time, COVID or not, so it's not as extreme as it may first appear. But I'm sure there are or will be many COVID cases in there.

Depends on how one defines extreme.

Usually, about 25 people are buried on the island each week, Goldstein said. But since coronavirus began claiming victims in the US, she said there are 25 people buried there each day.

https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41994325/ne...ss-burials