My future brother-in-law owns 2 funeral homes in a large Ohio city. He's a demodumb, but he made the comment to me that deaths were not up like he should be seeing during a pandemic. He was no busier last year at Thanksgiving and Christmas like he would expect he would be. He also said that during that time he had a couple of cancer patients marked covid and a car accident.
I also didn’t notice increased traffic at the local funeral home.
To be fair, the number of funeral homes in US is around 28000. With 650,000 covid deaths last year, it would be roughly a 23 dead body increase per funeral home (if evenly distributed, which it most likely will not be). Not sure if that number would have caused notice even if the deaths weren’t inflated.
I guess that puts into perspective why this pandemic does not feel like a pandemic. For all the dragonian measures you would think you would see people dropping like flies.
My future brother-in-law owns 2 funeral homes in a large Ohio city. He's a demodumb, but he made the comment to me that deaths were not up like he should be seeing during a pandemic. He was no busier last year at Thanksgiving and Christmas like he would expect he would be. He also said that during that time he had a couple of cancer patients marked covid and a car accident.
I also didn’t notice increased traffic at the local funeral home.
To be fair, the number of funeral homes in US is around 28000. With 650,000 covid deaths last year, it would be roughly a 23 dead body increase per funeral home (if evenly distributed, which it most likely will not be). Not sure if that number would have caused notice even if the deaths weren’t inflated.
https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/funeral-homes-industry/
I guess that puts into perspective why this pandemic does not feel like a pandemic. For all the dragonian measures you would think you would see people dropping like flies.