RE: UK Govt contract for dead body storage25 Jul 2021 10:58
Yes, just planning. Every local authority in the country will have to do some level of this. They did it pre Covid, probably not enough with hindsight. Years ago when I was still an IT engineer, I was doing some work on my local disaster planning department. Anyway, while I was there, someone walk in and turned on the TV as there was a news flash on TV. A dam had failed. Massive destruction and projected death toll. It was a couple of minutes before I realised it was an exercise. The news flash was professional, BBC, with BBC news readers doing it. The team then went into disaster mode. Really interesting to watch and they talked of getting the body bags out to the site and shipping the bodies to the temporary morgues. Not sure how many Sheffield has be there are thousands of body bags sat waiting for a disaster and there are buildings already earmarked to keep the bodies in. I believe large shopping centers/malls have to do the same.