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I would anticipate a low but consistent parade of these discoveries for weeks to months. A lot of old folks are fairly isolated and non-mobile, and when disrup

• csense 7y ago
  But these weren't elderly people dying alone where no one would check on them. They died in a nursing home. The nursing home staff did check on them, someone at some point found them, realized they were dead, and put them in the morgue. The facility didn't call health authorities to investigate the possibility (probability?) of COVID-19, or funeral directors to bury the bodies, or go through whatever paperwork's normally needed to properly report dead people. They decided to just illegally hang onto the bodies for a while without notifying family or officially reporting the deaths. They knew what they were doing was wrong, and did it anyway. Parent's talking about "Older folks dying out of sight" which is like some older guy lives by himself, no family or close friends, catches COVID-19 and dies from it, and all his bills are auto-pay so nobody discovers him for 3 months. That's sad, and maybe society as a whole has done him a wrong for letting him get so isolated, but that's a little different than some specific medical-ish institution knowing he's dead and then actively covering up the death.