Navigating death and grief is an unimaginable task during COVID-19 | Coronavirus Chronicles

Navigating death is an unimaginable task during COVID-19.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic moves across the country, families and funeral directors are navigating death in unprecedented ways.

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  1. It’s also impossible to get a autopsy back fast enough to have already declared death by coronavirus

    1. @Willoughby Krenzteinburg “Compelling” meaning they’ve been within 100 km of a COVID-19 case.
      Every hospital administrator in the country is making damned sure anything that can be classified as COVID-19 is.
      It is absolutely the only diagnosis with guaranteed payout by CMS. Simple finance.
      Every heart attack death gets a COVID-19 test postmortem, just in case.

    2. @Bill Randleman I mean, this is YouTube. You are free to assert anything you want. The very fact that you are using km instead of miles tells me you arent even from the United States, so yeah… you have no idea what you are talking about here.

      On to the substance of what you are saying, if what you said were true, then it actually supports MY claim; not yours. If they are testing patients that died of a heart attack, they are doing so because they CAN’T justify it as a COVID death without a confirmation. So, they arent going around treating untested people that died of heart attacks as COVID deaths.

    3. Hallking78 When there is a unknown cause of death the states says it’s justified to put the cause of death as Coronavirus . Hmmm 🤔 sounds like someone is padding #’s …… they wouldn’t do that… would they?

    4. @Mark Kleffner Yes. Even now the CDC released a list of 6 new symptoms, meaning they’ll be counting even more people as they self-report.

  2. The CDC posted nationwide job listings for QUARANTINE DIRECTORS back on Nov. 15th of last year.

    1. Funerals don’t mean mass gatherings of people. This is moving the casket to the final resting place in a hearse, as is the custom. Funeral workers are considered essential

    1. An Devineach it was already discredited as a simple exercise with no real prediction to the current novel virus we have. The name of Corona virus is a common name for a virus that has animal to human transferability. Hell my uncle had a problem in 2018 with corona virus appearing in his goats. He ended up getting a little sick too but got over it.

      My point: corona virus is a broad term
      What we’re specifically dealing with is COVID19 not just corona virus.

  3. Well, thanks to Corona V, Heart Attacks are down to zero. Cancer deaths are just a bad memory and falling off a ladder well it seems as though no one is dying from falling, car wrecks or gun shots.

    1. @Willoughby Krenzteinburg Also, Kennedy, Lincoln and Julius Caesar. They all died from Corona V.

    1. I vape , I don’t vape outside and I’m not dead.
      So no,this is a virus and it spread by breathing, coughing and sneezing.

  4. The level of stupidity has reached a maximum level. I hope a second wave emerges and takes out all the stupid people but unfortunately virus doesn’t work that way.

    1. @An Devineach Yeah, we all saw it coming. We just chose to ignore it. We were lucky that Ebola, SARS were not that contagious but still people are refusing to believe. Comparing this with flu, aids and road accidents is just mind boggling. I’m not even an American but hearing this kind of stupidity from a well developed country is unimaginable.

    2. @So Seconds That or they’ll get out and get on with life while professional shut-ins peak nervously from their barricaded bunkers, searching the dark for the tel # of the Gestapo to make sure all those free dummies are punished for their sins.

  5. Look for Caitlin Doughty on youtube. She’s a mortician and has a good vlog on Hart Island, the refrigerated trucks, etc.

  6. The question no news organization is asking!

    Why do we not have hundred or even thousands of dead homeless people being picked up off the street every day in our country?

    If COVID-19 was as dangerous as we had been told it would be the homeless where we would see the most deaths, not nursing homes.

  7. Human: Let’s create environmental programs to help the nature.
    God: Let me do it.

  8. I live in Astoria Oregon, we have only had about 20 cases of covid-19 and zero deaths. Our state has not opened any establishments stay home even if your state says you can leave!! Be smart, and be safe.

    1. By that logic the seasonal flu that we experience every single year is as deadly as the entire Vietnam war. Heart disease claims more than US casualties in WW2 and that’s every single year. The death toll from Covid-19 is not notably high and our system is not over capacity.

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