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We've got it pretty good here, so far. - 1voyager1 - 04-10-2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52241221
It has probably happened before, but I don't remember mass burials ever happening in the U.S.
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, nothing left.
RE: We've got it pretty good here, so far. - ironyak - 04-10-2020
New York's Hart Island was already the world's largest mass grave site, used for burying unidentified and unclaimed bodies for over 150 years.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/new-york/articles/hart-island-cemetery-biggest-us-burial-site/
As for other mass graves in the U.S., there were many associated with the 1918 Spanish Flu:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2018/03-04/history-spanish-flu-pandemic/
As well as other natural and social disasters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_of_1928_African-American_Mass_Burial_Site
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789015343/new-research-identifies-possible-mass-graves-from1921-tulsa-race-massacre
Even here in Hawaii:
https://www.thegardenisland.com/2019/10/21/hawaii-news/new-clue-in-massacre-mystery/
But yes, we've got it pretty good here, so far.
RE: We've got it pretty good here, so far. - Durian Fiend - 04-10-2020
31 cases of coronavirus have been identified on Big Island since this all started, 26 are now classified as recovered. Yup, pretty good.
RE: We've got it pretty good here, so far. - sistersue - 04-10-2020
Yes, it is great for us. And just imagine all the hundreds, or even thousands, of people on the BI who have had the illness but were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms and were never tested. Hopefully, they're all immune now, at least until the immunizations come out.