FEMA seeks 100,000 body bags from the Pentagon as coronavirus pandemic worsens

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency has 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. On Wednesday, more than 1,000 people died of the coronavirus in the United States, 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 longstanding 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 on 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."

Bloomberg first reported the FEMA request for body bags.

https://news.yahoo.com/fema-seeks-100-000-body-144932418.html

[Texaswitchy]

1. But they can find body bags.

But not PPE's.

[Faux pas]

2. My thoughts exactly

[Texaswitchy]

4. Yep.

Says it all.

No trouble finding body bags.

Damn.

[0rganism]

3. and the mass dying begins

up to now, it's been a prelude -- heartbreaking, to be sure, but effectively foreshadowing.
we've reached the elbow of the death curve, the next 2 weeks are going to be shocking. it's been generations since we've seen anything like what's coming.

[crickets]

5. Grim. K&R for visibility.