U.S. Buys 100,000 More Body Bags, Preparing for Coronavirus Worst

[left-of-center2012]

Source: WSJ

The federal government ordered 100,000 new Covid-19 body bags, in what officials described as preparations for a “worst case” scenario. The giant order last week for “human remains pouches” comes as more than 58,000 Americans have died from Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The order for 100,000 body bags, costing $5.1 million, was placed April 21 by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, federal contracting databases show. The supplier, a small California company, is supposed to deliver the bags by May 4, according to the contracting data.

A FEMA spokeswoman said the agency has been focused on a “worst possible case national scenario” from the start of the response effort. “In order to meet the worst-case demand models, FEMA initiated a broad range of acquisition contracts to augment available stocks and produce more human-remains pouches for future requirements should they be needed,” she said.

The Defense Department earlier this month said that FEMA asked it to provide 100,000 body bags for civilian use, Bloomberg News reported. The latest purchase is separate from that request.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-buys-more-body-bags-preparing-for-worst-case-cornavirus-scenario-11588172780

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. tRump, trumpanzees, and Greed Over People are all deadenders. . . . nt

[NotHardly]

9. FEMA steals equipment and supplies from states & buys body bags... of course they did!

f**king killer ghouls

[Scarsdale]

32. Where will Kushner

store all of these? He already took masks, gowns, ventilators and other supplies already paid for by governors. How does he find the room for all this?

[unblock]

2. We asked for masks. We asked for ventilators. They gave us body bags.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Good meme. . . . nt

[forgotmylogin]

13. Unsurprisingly, they had no trouble ordering those. n/t

[not fooled]

27. But will jared and orange anus

make money on the purchase? That's the important question.

Hey, orange anus can brag about his procurement skills as he hands them out to red states!

[roamer65]

4. It won't be enough.

[ffr]

5. Grotesque! Body bags, sure thing! PPE, FUCK YOU!

[left-of-center2012]

6. "human remains pouches"

[warmfeet]

7. One body bag, would have prevented the need for 100,000 body bags.

Not an equitable trade off, in my opinion.

[NotHardly]

10. You ain't wrong... except 2 would have cured the worst of 'them' Mr 1 & 2.

[Duppers]

34. 👍

[ck4829]

8. It's for you

[left-of-center2012]

11. .

[McKim]

24. Excellent Trip Down Memory Lane

This is an excellent trip down Memory Lane......there IS a future in Plastics as the businessman said in “The Graduate”!

[keithbvadu2]

12. 100,000 More Body Bags does not sound optimistic.

100,000 More Body Bags does not sound optimistic.

Yet a repub politician says that recommending bleach was to give hope.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. So much winning

[EarthFirst]

15. That's one way to get the public stoked for the Grand Reopening! nt

[forkol]

16. Trump should ask the company

to put his name on them. In nice, big, gold letters.

[Scarsdale]

33. Great idea.

He could sign a couple in the Oval Office, surrounded by smirking gop members.

[cstanleytech]

17. Made by a Trump owned business and stamped with the name Trump on them no doubt since he does like

to take credit.

[area51]

18. Body bags?

[McCamy Taylor]

19. They won't give us PPE but they will give us Body Bags????

[Beacool]

20. This makes me sad.

BTW, stupid question, but are body bags disinfected and reused or are they destroyed after the body is removed?

[left-of-center2012]

22. are body bags disinfected and reused

Body bags are not designed to be washed and re-used. Aside from the obvious hygiene concerns, re-use of body bags could easily contaminate evidence in the case of a suspicious death. As a result, body bags are routinely discarded and incinerated after one use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_bag

[Beacool]

28. Thanks for the response.

I never thought about it, but it makes sense that they would be discarded.

Thanks again.

[Botany]

21. "They" know what is gonna happen when the Trump/Fox News inspired "open it all back up" goes ...

... into action.

I have come to the conclusion that Trump and company getting us dead is part and parcel
of their plan.

[McKim]

23. This Tells Us a Lot!

So it turns out they DO know how to prepare for some things.......this time it’s for the grand reopening!!!!! Or it is probably for the Blue States since they are hoarding the protective gear, ventilators and tests and good drugs for the Red States!!!!!!

I am a rational person in a Science family but this sent me over the edge. How much of this whole response is negligence and how much is planned? So the market is going up. We are selling our stocks and getting out of the roulette game before they can rob us again. I think that mine is a rational response to what I have seen with my own eyes.

[Jarqui]

25. I bet they'll need more before this is over.

They've been hiding some of the numbers (see Florida for example).

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

of the resolved cases, for every two recovered, one dies.

There are more than 900,000 unresolved cases now and they're still growing at close to 30,000 per day ... which could resolve at 10,000 dead per infection day over time.

With Georgia and Florida for example, opening up, we're determined to learn the hard way = more folks have to die for the deadheads running government to figure it out.

A whole bunch of things should happen before they open up and none of them have happened yet. So more US citizens have to die.

[tclambert]

26. Will they be red, with "Make America Great Again" printed on them?

[Duppers]

35. That truly should be printed on them.

"But tRump didn't cause this!" - my ignorant, Fox watching neighbor.

[iluvtennis]

29. trump admin can buy body bags, BUT NOT TEST KITS. What a vile, evil adminstration. nt

[Warpy]

30. Why the hell are the Feds buying them?

This is the kind of thing that states and county coroners should be ordering.

Or is this gang of thieves trying to corner the market on those, too, in order to punish blue states some more?

[Solly Mack]

31. Kushner: "by July the country's really rocking again"

Now we know what he meant.

Rocking and reeling...they all fall down.