Florida sets grim death toll record, while trailer truck outside funeral home raises COVID-19 fears

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC News

Florida set another grim record Tuesday with nearly 200 more COVID-19 deaths recorded overnight, but in recent days an ominous sight outside a funeral home has been sending a shiver through a Miami-area town –- a refrigerated trailer for storing bodies.

Rumors that the corpses of coronavirus victims were being stored there -- and unfounded fears that the bodies could spread the disease -- have sparked several protests in recent days outside the San Jose Funeral Home in Hialeah.

“We went to the funeral home to ask about it and they told us that they were at capacity and that they had COVID-19 infected bodies that they were storing in that container,” Liliana Vázquez Acosta, who lives near the funeral home and who first sounded the alarm, told The Miami Herald.

Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández acknowledged remains were being stored in the trailer but said “the refrigerated container does not have bodies from people who died of COVID-19." He said the trailer was moved Tuesday to a fenced-in area on another part of the property that is out of sight of the neighbors.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-sets-grim-death-toll-record-while-trailer-truck-outside-n1235109

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If you want to understand why Trump/Barr are doing their best to stir up violence in cities...

[hibbing]

1. Desantis video

Just watched the video of him taking his victory lap about a month ago blowharding about how the liberal media predicted this and that and this and that and it hasn't happened!


Remember people (rwnj) asking where DeSantis goes for his apology?

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/where-does-ron-desantis-go-to-get-his-apology/

Peace

[soothsayer]

2. Ha remember this lie? New refrigerated containers at Hillsborough Medical Examiner bought for hurri

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2020/07/10/new-refrigerated-containers-at-hillsborough-medical-examiner-bought-for-hurricanes-not-coronavirus/

New refrigerated containers at Hillsborough Medical Examiner bought for hurricanes, not coronavirus

The six containers recently installed at the office on 46th Street in Tampa could be used for people who died from coronavirus if it came to that, officials said.

[iluvtennis]

3. Why lie about the purpose of the containers...people need to know so they can take/continue to

take the necessary precautions. Maybe if they see the refrigerated containers they'l think twice about doing risky stuff.

[soothsayer]

4. Agreed. Some good DUer pointed out how few hurricane deaths there have been in the last 25 years

Wayyyy less than the trucks hold.

[TomCADem]

6. How Florida's coronavirus reopening unfolded under Gov. DeSantis

Here is a timeline of DeSantis downplaying COVID-19 and pushing for a quick reopening sometimes over the objections of local leaders.

[ancianita]

5. Footage in Democratic every campaign ads should show containers in 45's home state.

A home state he has hasn't visited for most of 2020.

[tclambert]

7. They moved the truck out of sight? Well, OK, then, problem solved.

If you can't see it, it can't hurt you, right? You only have to worry about germs visible to the naked eye.