Texas requests five mortuary trailers from FEMA, bracing for more covid-19 deaths

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Source: Washington Post

Texas health officials have requested five mortuary trailers from the federal government in anticipation of a possible spike in deaths brought about by surging coronavirus numbers in the state.

The Texas Department of State Health Services made a request Aug. 4 through the Texas Division of Emergency Management to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for five mortuary trailers, agency spokesman Douglas Loveday confirmed to The Washington Post, adding the request was made as a precaution. NBC News previously reported the state’s request for mortuary trailers.

The trailers will be kept in San Antonio in case any nearby areas need the additional resource, though Loveday said no specific requests have been made. Still, officials are anticipating a potential need for these trailers in the state. Loveday said FEMA had also provided trailers for earlier increases in covid-19-related deaths.

Mobile and refrigerated mortuary trucks were seen as a grim symbol during earlier waves of the pandemic. Trailers were delivered to cities to keep pace with mounting deaths, and in some places they reportedly remained in place as makeshift morgues months into the pandemic.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/17/texas-mortuary-trailers-covid-surge/

[keithbvadu2]

1. Last year Abbot said TX had plenty of hospital beds. Now his policies have different requirements.

Last year Abbot said TX had plenty of hospital beds.

Now his policies have different requirements.

[Renew Deal]

2. They are a top destination for unvaccinated people.

[MyMission]

3. Knew that was coming

Actually surprised they didn't order them sooner. They will be needed in many red states.

[Vinca]

4. So when they're loading the bodies into the trucks are they allowed to wear masks?

Probably not knowing Abbott.

[DBoon]

19. Wearing a mask is an individual decision

Abbot is fine with someone deciding not to wear a mask and spreading a deadly disease to others. Along with owning guns, it's what freedom is all about.

[onetexan]

23. FreeDUMB is more like it

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Abbott is still blocking others from Mask mandates..

While the number of COVID cases and deaths rise. This makes no sense....

[hibbing]

12. This n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

6. With the numbers that they have been reporting all over the state

they are going to need more than "5". And TX (along with AZ) went through that routine a year ago with the mortuary trucks, so they know the routine.

As of this past May, NY still had 750 bodies in those units and had received 85 of them during their peak wave a year ago, so it's no joke when it gets out of control.

[Midnight Writer]

7. Texas should buy their own damn trucks.

[marble falls]

9. Calm down. We trying to deal with politicians down here and fight covid. Hatefulness just ...

... doesn't help anyone.

[Midnight Writer]

16. It's a refrigerator truck. There are thousands of them in Texas.

Why are they going through the process of applying to the Federal Government?

Rent'em, buy'em, get it done. I suggest they buy some because they will no doubt need them again in the future.

[marble falls]

18. We're using them now. Smaller towns like mine can't afford one or keep a hospital morgue cooler ..

... big enough. The hospitals here are at capacity. They and other towns out here send bodies to bigger cities' morgues. There is a need. It is real. It will get worse as breakout infections start to rise. As the number of children with itstarts growing because there are kids going to school mainly unvaxxed, we'll need a lot more refrigerator trucks.

Like it or not, we are in this together. This is the time we all have to be the best we can be. We do not want to start reflecting them, now do we?

[marble falls]

8. Did Abbott pencil off on this?

[Champp]

11. Did Republican Senator Carnival Cruz bail out for Cancun again?

[marble falls]

17. Does Cruz have Cornyn packed in the big case, again? A lot of folks don't know Cornyn was AWOL, too.

[IronLionZion]

10. Texas grid can't even be trusted to power hospital ventilators

If they don't have power to keep the mortuary trailers cold, Texans will have to smell the stench of death.

[ToxMarz]

13. Mobile morgue holds between 48 and 60 bodies (according to google)

[NurseJackie]

14. How many corpses can be packed into one of those refrigerated trucks?

Will they need to requisition a backhoe and bulldozer for a mass-grave?

[monkeyman1]

15. abbott has c-19 now , put him in them !

[tonekat]

20. Perhaps there is a shelf in a truck...

Reserved just for him.

[Ziggysmom]

22. That was my first thought in reading this. That and the scene from Monty Python snd the Holy

Grail. I know this situation isn't funny, but it popped into my head during my 4 AM insomnia.

[Jimbo S]

27. Reminds me of "The Man with the Golden Gun"

The Bond film.

"He built his mausoleum, now put him in it."

[EndlessWire]

21. OMG

This is just dreadful. What are we gonna do? What's the matter with these Republican Governors who defy common sense?

[Botany]

24. Abbott knew all along that his actions and rhetoric would cause people to die but did so anyway.

I wonder if there will be room for him on one of the trailers?

[Crowman2009]

25. Hey Alex Jonestown! How come you're not screaming about these FEMA trailers?

[twodogsbarking]

26. And now dead people are a source of humor.

America.