Disaster Training
Jul. 28th, 2020 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpegghostSorry I'm a day late with my usual posting, I was a psuedo-DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) yesterday.
DMORT is operated and sent out by FEMA during disasters or other mass death with coroners, autopsy techs, and other funeral representatives. If we have another disaster I could get called out to work mass shooting sites, natural disaster sites, et cetera. ANYWAYS. Our local morgue was stockpiled to the brim yesterday and there was a supremely low staff shortage. They called out to local funeral homes for backup, and lucky me, I have the best immune system / am the youngest in our funeral home so I was sent out.
I saw around ... 200? Bodies? Mostly covid. I worked almost 9 hours yesterday around the clock shipping out bodies, prepping bodies, locating bodies in overrun coolers, et cetera. I feel like a more sensitive person would be shocked and overwhelmed by it -- but it only left me angrier at our governor who really screwed the pooch on this whole 'deadly pandemic' situation. It was EXHAUSTING and when I got home I spent most of the day in bed watching videos debunking DIY hacks.
In better news one of my favorite artist's vinyl came in! I've been a fan of Jeff Rosenstock for a few years, and No Dream was a great album when it dropped a month or two ago. It's so PRETTY.
DMORT is operated and sent out by FEMA during disasters or other mass death with coroners, autopsy techs, and other funeral representatives. If we have another disaster I could get called out to work mass shooting sites, natural disaster sites, et cetera. ANYWAYS. Our local morgue was stockpiled to the brim yesterday and there was a supremely low staff shortage. They called out to local funeral homes for backup, and lucky me, I have the best immune system / am the youngest in our funeral home so I was sent out.
I saw around ... 200? Bodies? Mostly covid. I worked almost 9 hours yesterday around the clock shipping out bodies, prepping bodies, locating bodies in overrun coolers, et cetera. I feel like a more sensitive person would be shocked and overwhelmed by it -- but it only left me angrier at our governor who really screwed the pooch on this whole 'deadly pandemic' situation. It was EXHAUSTING and when I got home I spent most of the day in bed watching videos debunking DIY hacks.
In better news one of my favorite artist's vinyl came in! I've been a fan of Jeff Rosenstock for a few years, and No Dream was a great album when it dropped a month or two ago. It's so PRETTY.
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Date: 2020-07-29 05:18 pm (UTC)Thankfully Vermont is largely a blue state already. We have pockets of conservatives, but the state tends overall towards more liberal and progressive views for the most part.