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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 |
