MADRID — Madrid’s ice-skating rink is now being used as a makeshift morgue given the rapid increase in deaths in the Spanish capital owing to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Security forces guarded the outside of the Palacio de Hielo complex on Madrid’s north-eastern outskirts Tuesday as funeral service vans arrived and entered the building underground car park.
Madrid city authorities took up the rink’s offer to use the 1,800 square-meter (2,153 square-yard) center after the city’s municipal funeral service said it could take no more coronavirus bodies until it restocked with protective equipment and material.
Madrid is one of the hardest hit of Spain’s 17 regions with some 1,300 deaths, approximately half the national total.
Just a feeling but I sense this will not be the first time we hear of something like this.
Usually, in cases of massive deaths, they use refrigerated semi trailers or shipping containers. TBH, they have better temperature controls and are lined with non porous white fiberglass panels and have slotted aluminum floors for easy disinfecting.
It is really sad that we might not have traditional burials…and social distancing to comfort each other.
Has Jared Kushner and GOP legislators invested in the funeral stocks or businesses yet?
This sounds like a hoax to me.
Their ilk generally does not buy stocks. They will buy put or call options on stocks, ETFs or a volitility index. Using stock options, a 35% move in the stock can return 354%. OTH, if you bought the stock, you would make only 35%. It’s all about the leverage. If you’re wrong though, you can lose everything.
These people usually bet on sure things and insider information.