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Yeah, NYC saw "temporary morgues" as well, in the form of refrigerated shipping containers. One of the more resonant memories of the pandemic from last year to

• steve_adams_86 5y ago
  This happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic as well. Rather, the overflow of casualties happened - not refrigerated shipping containers. Samples of sick people were recovered for researching that strain of influenza by locating large graves which had been created where it remained cold enough to preserve the bodies. Until I'd heard that and lived through last year, the gravity of it all totally eluded me. It takes a lot before people start burying the dead in trenches; it's perhaps second to the worst case in which we can't even manage that. A scenario common to war but nothing else I can think of. I've been so isolated from these kinds of circumstances for all of the pandemic, but I try to remind myself that it's exactly why lock downs and masks and all the hassle are actually completely reasonable. The alternative is incredibly dark, evidently.