Video shows giant trench being dug on NYC's Hart Island to bury coronavirus victims

[cyndensco]

1. 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.
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"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