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Bodies piling up in morgues is one thing but bodies piling up in houses because there's no more room in the morgues and no one going around to collect them is q

Bodies piling up in morgues is one thing but bodies piling up in houses because there's no more room in the morgues and no one going around to collect them is quite another.

gjulianm 4y ago
That also happened. I remember seeing the reports from some south american nations (don't remember exactly which one) of people who had dead relatives in their houses and no one could go and fetch them.
- starkd 4y ago
  That may have been a sensationalized media story. I think that regularly happens in normal times as well, due to lack of services.
  - gjulianm 4y ago
    It was not a sensationalized media story. It was something that happened and that wasn't normal. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/don-t-leave-him-here-ecuadorians-live-dead-relatives-mid-n1175101 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/don-t-leave-him-here-ecu... https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-01/el-coronavirus-desborda-ecuador-y-abruma-a-su-poblacion-por-la-acumulacion-de-cadaveres-en-casas.html# https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-01/el-coronavirus-desbor... It got to the point that the COVID task force coordinator had to issue an apology: https://twitter.com/EcuadorTV/status/1245492946675347460?s=20 https://twitter.com/EcuadorTV/status/1245492946675347460?s=2... I think your comment really proves my point. Even when there's overwhelming evidence of how bad it really was, there's always someone who will downplay it or even deny it.
    - tokai 4y ago
      Did people downplay the severity in Ecuador, or did the piles of bodies make people take it seriously? Where I'm from (Northern Europe) the bodies were definitely not piling up. It's even hard to show that any excess mortality over the period. If the people of Ecuador didn't take covid serious after that horrible situation, I guess I can forget about westerns rallying against a more deadly pandemic.

Bodies piling up in morgues is one thing but bodies piling up in houses because there's no more room in the morgues and no one going around to collect them is quite another.

gjulianm 4y ago

That also happened. I remember seeing the reports from some south american nations (don't remember exactly which one) of people who had dead relatives in their houses and no one could go and fetch them.

starkd 4y ago
That may have been a sensationalized media story. I think that regularly happens in normal times as well, due to lack of services.
- gjulianm 4y ago
  It was not a sensationalized media story. It was something that happened and that wasn't normal. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/don-t-leave-him-here-ecuadorians-live-dead-relatives-mid-n1175101 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/don-t-leave-him-here-ecu... https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-01/el-coronavirus-desborda-ecuador-y-abruma-a-su-poblacion-por-la-acumulacion-de-cadaveres-en-casas.html# https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-04-01/el-coronavirus-desbor... It got to the point that the COVID task force coordinator had to issue an apology: https://twitter.com/EcuadorTV/status/1245492946675347460?s=20 https://twitter.com/EcuadorTV/status/1245492946675347460?s=2... I think your comment really proves my point. Even when there's overwhelming evidence of how bad it really was, there's always someone who will downplay it or even deny it.
  - tokai 4y ago
    Did people downplay the severity in Ecuador, or did the piles of bodies make people take it seriously? Where I'm from (Northern Europe) the bodies were definitely not piling up. It's even hard to show that any excess mortality over the period. If the people of Ecuador didn't take covid serious after that horrible situation, I guess I can forget about westerns rallying against a more deadly pandemic.