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L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims

McBell

Resident Sourpuss
Los Angeles County has temporarily suspended air quality rules in order to allow covid-19 victims to be cremated, according to an executive order passed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District over the weekend. The rules will be suspended for 10 days as the region works through a “backlog” of people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic, which is still uncontrolled in many parts of the country.

Los Angeles County has 28 crematoriums, though those facilities are prohibited by law from running at full capacity in order to cut down on air pollution. But with over 2,700 bodies currently sitting in cold storage due to an influx of dead patients from the covid-19 crisis, local authorities have decided that dirtier air is the price Angelenos will have to pay if the backlog is ever going to be cleared.

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Los Angeles has been hit particularly hard by the covid-19 pandemic, with the county recently surpassing 1 million total cases. The county has also reported 13,936 deaths as of Monday night. The U.S. has identified over 24 million cases and at least 398,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker.

Cremating bodies creates air pollution and unleashes trace amounts of hazardous chemicals, such as mercury. The most common source of mercury in the cremation process is dental fillings in deceased Baby Boomers, a generation that was given mercury-laced dental work before alternatives were developed.
L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Los Angeles County has temporarily suspended air quality rules in order to allow covid-19 victims to be cremated, according to an executive order passed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District over the weekend. The rules will be suspended for 10 days as the region works through a “backlog” of people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic, which is still uncontrolled in many parts of the country.

Los Angeles County has 28 crematoriums, though those facilities are prohibited by law from running at full capacity in order to cut down on air pollution. But with over 2,700 bodies currently sitting in cold storage due to an influx of dead patients from the covid-19 crisis, local authorities have decided that dirtier air is the price Angelenos will have to pay if the backlog is ever going to be cleared.

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Los Angeles has been hit particularly hard by the covid-19 pandemic, with the county recently surpassing 1 million total cases. The county has also reported 13,936 deaths as of Monday night. The U.S. has identified over 24 million cases and at least 398,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker.

Cremating bodies creates air pollution and unleashes trace amounts of hazardous chemicals, such as mercury. The most common source of mercury in the cremation process is dental fillings in deceased Baby Boomers, a generation that was given mercury-laced dental work before alternatives were developed.
L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims
My my my.

All of a sudden the regulatory system, its not convenient anymore.

Hypocrisy again. Enforcement for others but not for themselves, so they break their own enviromental laws.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
My my my.

All of a sudden the regulatory system, its not convenient anymore.

Hypocrisy again. Enforcement for others but not for themselves, so they break their own enviromental laws.
How is that hypocrisy? It is an emergency driven by need. Perhaps we could store a few extra bodies in your basement if you think that this is hypocrisy.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Los Angeles County has temporarily suspended air quality rules in order to allow covid-19 victims to be cremated, according to an executive order passed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District over the weekend. The rules will be suspended for 10 days as the region works through a “backlog” of people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic, which is still uncontrolled in many parts of the country.

Los Angeles County has 28 crematoriums, though those facilities are prohibited by law from running at full capacity in order to cut down on air pollution. But with over 2,700 bodies currently sitting in cold storage due to an influx of dead patients from the covid-19 crisis, local authorities have decided that dirtier air is the price Angelenos will have to pay if the backlog is ever going to be cleared.

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Los Angeles has been hit particularly hard by the covid-19 pandemic, with the county recently surpassing 1 million total cases. The county has also reported 13,936 deaths as of Monday night. The U.S. has identified over 24 million cases and at least 398,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus tracker.

Cremating bodies creates air pollution and unleashes trace amounts of hazardous chemicals, such as mercury. The most common source of mercury in the cremation process is dental fillings in deceased Baby Boomers, a generation that was given mercury-laced dental work before alternatives were developed.
L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims
It is very sad that it has come to this. Predictions of these sorts of events were belittled by deniers and now we see it called "hypocrisy" when the system is so overloaded that emergency measures must be taken. It is time to admit that this is a real emergency and that Trump did not do a very adequate job.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
How is that hypocrisy? It is an emergency driven by need. Perhaps we could store a few extra bodies in your basement if you think that this is hypocrisy.
Well in that case, protecting the environment just isn't that urgent of an emergency then.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
How is that hypocrisy? It is an emergency driven by need. Perhaps we could store a few extra bodies in your basement if you think that this is hypocrisy.

It is for those who signal their
Lofty selves by detecting (shudder )
HYPOCRISY! Real, imaginary, future- hypothetical,any kind will do.

Its a charge than be leveled against anyone
or anything, most any time.

Now, personally, I think burial at sea
would make far more sense, but if cremate
they must, its a grotesque act of imagination
to fancy they have so many corpses to burn as
to have some impact on air q in the LA basin.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
It is for those who signal their
Lofty selves by detecting (shudder )
HYPOCRISY! Real, imaginary, future- hypothetical,any kind will do.

Its a charge than be leveled against anyone
or anything, most any time.

Now, personally, I think burial at sea
would make far more sense, but if cremate
they must, its a grotesque act of imagination
to fancy they have so many corpses to burn as
to have some impact on air q in the LA basin.
I am all for the Viking funeral. It combines both. Give those crabs some barbecue to snack on.
 

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
I thought the environment was sooooo urgent and dire that no emergency can ever supercede it.

You know what thought did???

Considering trump stomped all over environmental protection i am surprised you are so protective about it to the extent of not offering your cellar to store corpses while they rot...
 

Audie

Veteran Member
I thought the environment was sooooo urgent and dire that no emergency can ever supercede it.

As noted earlier, you thought wrong.
With no other basis for the thought
than your chosen " interpretation".

Kinda like what creationists do with
their book.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Enjoy breathing your next door neighbors, I guess.
Literally. Wonder if they bothered to ask the public if it was OK with them.

LA is going to be flooded with particulates of dead people.

Poetic I suppose.
 
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