Anybody Know What's Going On In Central Park Right NOw?

[Me.]

Lots and lots of helicopters flying.

[MrsCoffee]

1. Thought it was turned into a tent hospital.

[Me.]

7. It Is

But that's been there for a while now. And usually when we hear a lot of copters flying around like this, there is an immediate problem.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. There's been discussion today of burying New York City's dead in parks.

I'm trying to wrap my head around this but it's too surreal.

Here's a link to what I found.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/nyc-council-health-chair-says-city-will-use-parks-to-bury-bodies-of-coronavirus-victims/

"Snip -

New York City council health committee chairman Mark D. Levine claimed on Monday that the city will soon start to bury coronavirus victims in mass graves at a city park due to shortages of morgue and funeral home space. "

I don't know this publication. I would gladly be embarrassed forever rather than have this be the truth of what's happening. Just tell me it's a bogus site and I'll be happy.

[cwydro]

3. Sorry, that sounds like nonsense.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

4. It isn't

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/nyregion/mass-graves-nyc-parks-coronavirus.html|]

Confronting the prospect that deaths from the coronavirus outbreak may soon start to strain the capacity of morgues in New York City, a high-ranking elected official said on Monday that the city has started laying plans for a chilling contingency: temporarily burying the dead in one of the city’s public parks.

[cwydro]

5. Christ.

Though actually, if I have to be buried - in a park sounds like a good place.

[jberryhill]

24. It's bullshit

Link to tweet

?s=20

[cwydro]

27. Thank you.

I figured.

[obamanut2012]

12. Cuomo stated that isn't true n/t

[defacto7]

16. He said he hadn't heard about it and was against it.

[Me.]

8. Dear God

wouldn't a crematorium be a better idea?

[Mariana]

17. All of the crematoria in the area are probably already working at capacity. nt.

[Mike 03]

9. This is my guess too.

NBC is now reporting it. I just think it's so hard to believe that the news helicopters are there to get video. This will be shocking to most Americans.

[Mike 03]

6. This is floating around twitter, but the source is good

and there's a link. Still it's hard to believe it's happening in the United States.

Link to tweet

#BREAKING NYC to start temporary burials, potentially in trenches dug in city parks, top official says

[Me.]

10. Cuomo Just Said He's Heard Nothing About This

[Mike 03]

13. I know he has. I hope it's not happening.

It's a terrible idea. It conjures up images of Iran digging those massive trenches for their COVID dead.

[Me.]

15. It Brings Up A Lot Of Images

[smirkymonkey]

11. Ok, that is kind of freaking me out.

This is all just starting to get too surreal.

[Me.]

14. Right?

[crickets]

18. You are not alone. It is surreal. nt

[jberryhill]

25. A council member tweeted about a hypothetical contingency

Link to tweet

?s=20

[cayugafalls]

19. QAnon idiots think it is mole children rescued by Samaritan's Purse.

Under orders from Trump.

And now, thirty-plus years later, we're back to the damn tunnels. Because the QAnon idiots have recently turned their attention to a theory that Central Park is currently teeming with mole children who had been living in underground tunnels, and who have recently been rescued by the US military, on the orders of one Donald J. Trump.

https://www.wonkette.com/qanon-idiots-very-concerned-about-mole-children-now

The fact that today has helicopters flying above the park will probably only spur them on to even greater conspiracy theories.

This is definitely crazy times to be sure.

[Me.]

20. It seems Like There Is More Than One Virus Going Around

[cayugafalls]

21. To bad there is not a vaccine for stupid. nt

[Me.]

22. It Goes Beyond Stupid

into mendacious and venal territory

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Viruses Don't Cause Willful Ignorance

This isn't mere stupidity. It's a choice to be this ignorant.
Can't blame a virus on that. Can only blame the willfully ignorant directly. That is 100% their own fault.

[cayugafalls]

31. Understood. However, I believe there is a mixture.

There are the willfully ignorant and those who are self deluded. Trumps followers, of which Q followers are a subset, at least some of them, believe that trump is savior and no amount of argumentation will sway them. It is why you can play a tape of trump saying some falsehood and they refuse to believe it. Perhaps I am wrong and they are all willfully ignorant, however, I have talked to people here in Texas that are beyond redemption. Their delusion is complete.

They scare the hell out of me.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. I'd Say That Cultish Behavior...

...is an outcome of willful ignorance.
Thinking is possible, but too hard. I'll let a leader do my thinking for me.
It still results in exactly what you're talking about.
It doesn't scare me. It disgusts me.

[Jamastiene]

23. They are in some major denial now.

Everyone is asking if Trump supporters will see how horribly he is handling all of this and turn on him.

No, they won't.

They will make up shit to praise him for if they have to.


They know, deep down, that Trump has screwed up his response to this. So, instead of admitting it, they are not ready to give up. So, they are making up things to praise him for so they can continue to stay in the state of denial they are in.

[JenniferJuniper]

29. 35,000 little Morlocks -

All rescued by Trump!

Question of the day, though. Did he put them in cages?

[Alex4Martinez]

26. It's not trenches being dug in Central Park. That's never going to happen.

This isn't directed toward you, Me., but to some of the replies to you.

Trenches in the park? No.
It's unnecessary, it would be easier and less traumatic and have better optics to use cold warehouses, more trailers, and to begin cremations than to ever dig pits, especially in Central Park.

Just because one NYC city official mentioned it, unfortunately, it's not going to happen.

[cyndensco]

30. It won't be the first time NYC utilized mass cemetery plots.

AIDS patients were buried that way in the 80's and 90's.

"Hart Island is a small islet located a mile east of the Bronx. It’s one mile long and a third of a mile wide (roughly 213 acres), and during the mid ’80s and ’90s, New York City buried thousands of people who’d died of HIV on the island out of fear the bodies might infect others.
…

"Although the city only buried 17 HIV-positive people there during 1985, they continued to do so well into the ’90s. The number of HIV-positive people buried there is estimated to be in the thousands, but city officials are reluctant to provide exact numbers because of longstanding criticisms of the island’s crude handling of deaths at the time."

https://www.queerty.com/folks-know-historic-mass-grave-hiv-positive-people-near-new-york-city-20190626