Any idea on the numbers of bags?
Based on the photo of the box (in the replies to the twitter thread), there are 10 bags per box. Each pallet has 4 rows of 8 boxes, meaning 320 bags per pallet. I think the guy said something about 180 pallets of them, so that would be ~58k bags.
Is this unusual or just normal? Normally people aren't generally bagged when they die, afaik. Only if they are possibly infectious or just a fucking mess. But, these aren't "normal" times, perhaps they are bagging all deaths as a precaution? I don't know. If so, they would need a shit ton more bags than that... bote calculation... ~320M people, ~1% die per annum -> ~3.2M per year, or ~9k per day. So, if they were bagging every death, that 58k would be about a weeks supply. That would depend on whether there are multiple other locations supplying large quantities of bags too, many variables that could effect whether this is even a thing or not.
If they are bagging all deaths, or more deaths, that could also account for the increased demand for, and therefore increased price of bags.
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