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Related: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/stacks-of-urns-in-wuhan-prompt-new-questions-of-virus-s-toll https://www.bloomberg.com/news/article

• robocat 7y ago
  The “stacks of urns” can almost be answered by the quote from the article: “There were 56,007 cremations in Wuhan in the fourth quarter of 2019”. (Edit: I shortened quote). After a month of lockdown, the number of backlogged urns should be over 18000.
  • oefrha 7y ago
    (More than) two months of lockdown, not one. So ~38000 cremations “normally”. Spread out to eight funeral homes, you’d expect 4k-5k at each location. (Since people were allegedly locked into apartments or at least apartment complexes, apparently they weren’t picking up ashes until now.) So “thousands” at each location tells us precious nothing. Article is intentionally misleading, burying the “normal” stats that way.
  • robocat 7y ago
    Note: Bloomberg lowered number from 56,007 to 13,856 — see note at bottom “(Corrects characterization of 2018 and 2019 cremations data in story published March 27.)” Original here: https://archive.md/g1BDx#selection-2503.0-2507.171 https://archive.md/g1BDx#selection-2503.0-2507.171
• DeonPenny 7y ago
  The reasons seem obvious. It's this the third pandemic for them in the past 10 years. SARS, Bird flu, Corvid-19 this is not a good trend if people start to notice