Everyday there is an updated list of all positive test, hospitalized and
deaths from this Corona virus. There are charts and graphs and scientist and politicians
but the body count keeps adding up.
The state has numbers to compare with other areas, the country has a
running total and the globe has estimates for bad accounting or guesswork.
There are reports of hospital wards filling up and without storage space
filling refrigerated trucks with body bags.
Normally the family will sign some papers and hiring a mortuary to pick
up the body and prepare it for display, services and burial, but can they
handle the mounting numbers? Are coffin makers working overtime? Is there
enough room in the cemetery?
This last act is supposed to be Rest In Peace but when death becomes a
assembly line who has time for a wake for the deceased? Perhaps the obituaries
should make a page for Covid-19? Can the crematoriums keep up with the volume?
Lest we forget there are also those who die from strokes, cancer, car
crashes, gunshots, falling off a mountain or suffocation, the bodies are
stacking up.
I’ve signed my paper informing the last to see me exhale to do whatever
with the carcass. Wherever we go from here, I won’t need this body anymore.
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