• Why no stories on hospice care in the United States relating to covid19 statistics (hospice has been removed from our common lexicon)? I’ve asked you this before, I know.
• Why no stories on the earnings of publicly held life insurance companies ?
• Why no stories about strategies written about the myriad of home health care providers in this country? What is their role in lessening hospital stays in the last 18 months. Did they play a role?
• Why know detailed explanation of how excess deaths are calculated – what are the excess death estimates for the next 5 years? I assume the data is easily found.
• No actuaries providing keen information and insights?
• Detailed investigations and stories of the traveling nurse industry ? I know several, interesting stories to say the least. Mostly regarding compensation.
• No keen insights from the coroners industry? The inexact science of “cause of death” in the last 100 years.
h/t -- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/a-readers-wishes-for-covid-coverage.html
Why no stories from the casket industry, which should be priced exorbitantly out of reach for most people, due to "excess deaths" and the lumber shortage?
The lumber shortage is even affecting prebuilt Ikea style furniture..yet caskets nothing.
Right?! I’ve wondered that myself. Everyone had a casket? Piles of bodies yeah? My mother in law said they had a truck outside the hospital with bodies piled up…though she never actually saw them.
All this and the casket industry wasn’t overwhelmed?
Also I’m still confused as to how there aren’t teams roaming around picking up dead homeless people by the dozens…
My landlord owns a funeral home and is a mortician. He told me there hasn’t been any more or less deaths than any usual year and most that died of covid had other obvious conditions. He also said you could tell the doctors who were signing the death certificates as covid vs the ones that weren’t. The only one he said he truly felt like died from covid was a younger woman who was so afraid of covid, she committed suicide! It’s crazy when you talk to actual boots on the ground who have been dealing with it. There’s so much blood on their hands
Funeral director here. Most caskets come from China. Urns too tbh. Batesville is one of the few companies still making them in USA. As for freezer trucks-I always laugh at that most hospitals have a whopping 2 person morgue. That’s why I’m having to pick them up ASAP, so if more than 2 people die at once, yeah you’re gonna need a freezer truck. Largest hospital morgue I’ve seen room for about 10, 3 tiers high. Smallest was no freezer at all.
I've asked that question myself lol. Where are the piles of dead homeless people? Smh - I get a blank look like I'm crazy and then told that they been put up in hotels for social distancing lol. WHO is paying for the hotels? Circle back to blank look lol.
Casket: Expensive Urn: Very cheap to very expensive. My guess is a lot of them were cremated.
What about cremation? If the casket industry is lacking in business, surely it simply means all rona victims were cremated, right?
I should have read on a little further because I just said the same thing!
I know people at local funeral home. I also check the obits. (Yeah I’ve reached that age🤦🏻♀️) It’s the same as it was. Maybe some die from Covid but it’s generally tragic death, old age or disease.
Same in my area. Source: I am a mortician.
If anyone would know it would be you!
There are, your just not goin to see it in the news. I lost my wife a while ago, and it was a month before I got her remains back in the urn I ordered. They told me some funeral homes were only doing cremation because of covid (embalming not required) and while they have some supply chain issues with coffins, it's more an issue with urns because of that.
Not sure where you're located but all bodies in our state have to be embalmed including those that are to be cremated. If they weren't dead prior to their "visit", they were certainly dead afterwards.
yeah, I should have clarified that, I'm in Maryland and they don't have to be embalmed if cremated unless the body still has to be identified
PA here and they had to do it to my mother when she died in 2017.