Workers in full Hazmat suits bury rows of coffins in Hart Island mass grave as NYC officials confirm

[mfcorey1]

Workers wearing hazmat suits have been spotted burying caskets in a mass grave on New York's Hart Island - as the number of burials quadruples amid the coronavirus pandemic and the city's death roll rises to more than 4,200.

A dozen contracted laborers were seen digging and burying the caskets - some of which had names carved on them - on Thursday.

The city has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 19th century.

Typically, about 25 bodies are buried there once a week by low-paid Rikers Island jail inmates. That number began increasing last month as the new coronavirus spread rapidly and New York became the epicenter of the pandemic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8205237/Prisoners-hazmat-suits-continue-dig-mass-graves-NYCs-Hart-Island.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Workers aren't burying them. Prisoners are.

Prison labor is slave labor.

[greenjar_01]

2. The article says that they've switched from prisoners to contract laborers

Just saying. Prisoners usually do the burials there.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. That article and the photos are almost too graphic to endure.

[uponit7771]

4. I've said nearly every week that there will be mass graves during Red Dons administration. Red Don

... soul is rotten.

[Delphinus]

5. Holy cow!

Three deep? Jeez.

[diva77]

6. These pictures need to be shown on split screen EVERYTIME Dump has a presser

K&R for exposure

[SlogginThroughIt]

7. I need another source

To that I don’t believe it but I don’t like to use Daily Mail.

[Sapient Donkey]

8. They've been burying bodies like this for over a hundreds on that island

City burial for the unclaimed and those who cannot afford burial. So the graves themselves are nothing new, but I how much more they are burying should be telling.