Back in April, we noticed the long white trucks parked down at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. I guessed they were extra refrigerator trucks to be used as temporary morgues for the first surge of COVID-19 after similar trucks were reported at local hospitals.
That proved to be correct, unfortunately.
The trucks have been there since. I have thought this strange. Shouldn’t they have been sent elsewhere? Like Texas, for instance, where first prisoners and now National Guard troops are working with the overflow of bodies. After all, we in New York set a template for responding to the pandemic, however incompetently; we sacrificed a lot and became a warning lesson for the rest of the country. (A lesson wasted in many places.) Sending the trucks elsewhere seemed a good-citizen thing to do.
Or was NYC just holding on to them in case of another surge?
Yesterday, it was reported that the trucks are actually in use. There are some 650 bodies in them.
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