FEMA seeks 100k Body Bags
USA TODAY
FEMA seeks 100,000 body bags from Pentagon as coronavirus pandemic worsens
WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency asked the Pentagon for 100,000 body bags, a chilling request as the COVID-19 pandemic spirals.
Known as mortuary pouches, the heavy-duty zippered bags are typically used in the military to contain the remains of troops killed in combat. Wednesday, more than 1,000 people died of the coronavirus in the USA, raising the death toll over 5,000. A week ago, the total was less than 1,300.
"The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a long-standing arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA's industrial partners during crisis response operations,” Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement Thursday. “DLA is currently responding to FEMA's prudent planning efforts for 100,000 pouches to address mortuary contingencies on behalf of state health agencies."
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Bloomberg first reported the FEMA request for body bags.
The virus has killed more than 50,000 people worldwide and infected more than 981,000.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Coronavirus: FEMA seeks 100,000 body bags from Pentagon for COVID-19
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SSDD the insanity of the news media today is over the top. 3 -
used to have a little local company make those, think is was called mustang survival, they went out of business a while back, rumor was during the gulf war they were the only company making body bags, and that contract was about the only thing keeping them open, wonder now if they are made in china.......... 0 -
FCD, I think you just wrote the script for a new motion picture. Alec Baldwin will play the Death Czar, Leonardo Decaprio will play the Mayor of the doomed city, Emma Watson will play the mayors wife (you need a British actress in every action or doomsday movie), and Will Smith will be the Air Force brigadier general charged with dropping the bomb. Whether or not we can get this film made for under $150 million depends on you not demanding your usual astronomic fee for the script.Flying Clay Disk said:What's next to scare the bejeezus out of people???Appointment of regional "Death Czars"???Stadiums turned into massive crematoriums???Nuclear detonations in cities affected???6 -
What's wrong with these..we don't need no stinkin body bags... 0 -
Figured they would have had that number on hand, before this started.
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Odd how the frantic media in their delight to report ever increasing numbers of cases and deaths, never compare those numbers to those from any flu season. It's all on the CDC web site but conveniently ignored by the sensationalists. 0 -
bpost said:SSDD the insanity of the news media today is over the top.
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