A harsh reminder: 8-plus pages of obituaries in Sunday's Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate

The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate printed eight-and-a-half pages of obituaries Sunday, almost double the amount normally published.

Several of the obituaries mention coronavirus, or COVID-19. Even more included notices that funeral services will be private because of the pandemic. Some mentioned hopes of having more traditional memorials at a later time.

On the same weekend last year, there were about four pages devoted to obituaries.

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_2e8c562e-82a7-11ea-aec5-97f57a44d417.html?

Real or pulling out all the stops. A comment says Boston had 15 pages.

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It was debunked last night. The same city posted a clarification. An out of town construction company offered to wear the armbands to ease the minds of locals and show they had done the quarantine.

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And we are supposed to trust them. Bunch of buffoons.

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>that were themselves seeded with the virus

So, not only would they get positive results from any testing they were infecting those they did test.

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From their FB page.

Valley County Health Department added a post from April 15 at 2:00 PM to their timeline.

April 15 at 2:00 PM · ·

Press Release from the Valley County Commissioners

The Valley County Commissioners would like to apologize, and issue clarification, regarding the current health orders and obligations that apply to visitors from outside Valley County.

In response to significant public concern regarding out of county contractors who are present in our communities for essential work purposes, one of the companies partnered with the County Health Officer to wear pink wrist bands following their 14- day quarantine. This was implemented to help alleviate community concerns about the potential spread of COVID-19. These bands are not government issued and are not a part of any of the current health orders in place. Rather, they are a good faith effort by these contractors to try to put the community at ease.

In a break-down of our internal processes, a flier went out to local business owners seemingly indicating such wrist bands are required for out of county individuals, and that local business owners were obligated to report violations of the health orders. That is not the intent of Valley County, and that flier has been rescinded.

We apologize, again, for any confusion this has caused. We are addressing our internal processes and want to thank all community members for continuing to work with us during this unprecedented time.

Paul Tweten

John Fahlgren

Mary Armstrong