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User ID: 495158 United Arab Emirates 07/27/2009 04:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims Bring Out Yer Dead! [ link to www.breitbart.com] "A city council said Saturday it was considering using underground burial chambers, currently a tourist attraction, to store the corpses of swine flu victims if the pandemic worsens. Exeter City Council said the empty 19th-century catacombs could become an emergency mortuary. A council spokesman said the plan could be put into operation if the cemeteries and the crematorium could not keep up with funeral demands. " Oh Boy. I know enough to know that I know nothing |
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User ID: 495158 United Arab Emirates 07/27/2009 04:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims No one thinks that this type of contingency planning indicates that the authorities are expecting large numbers of casualties? Ok-hope you are right. I know enough to know that I know nothing |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 725578 United Kingdom 07/27/2009 04:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: City plans to use catacombs for swine flu victims The UK has plenty of experience in dealing with masses of dead carcases, there will be no problem here.
Think: Foot and Mouth, Swine Vesicular Fever, etc., etc.
All good practice runs for when IT happens. There will be no dignity in death, only a desperate attempt to contain the other diseses brought on by the piles of putrid rotting copses.
Now, go wash your hands and take your Tamiflu shots like a good sheep. |