Because America isn’t scary enough already, the Food and Drug Administration has deemed food trucks storing COVID-19 bodies are fine to resume use for food related activities afterwards.
Currently, the United States is leading in positive COVID-19 cases, and also leading in deaths due to the virus, with a current total of 1.52 million confirmed cases and nearly 90,000 deaths. As death tolls continue to rise, due to the overwhelming influx of bodies, the dead have been stored in food trucks to stop decomposition before burial or cremation.
Understandable, right? You’ve got to stop the mass amounts of bodies from decomposing before a proper funeral and burial can be held, plus food transportation trucks are typically refrigerated, so they’d be perfect for storing bodies.
However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that these trucks can resume food storage and transport once they’ve been cleared of the dead bodies.
In a recently release guide, the FDA reports that “Refrigerated food transport vehicles and refrigerated food storage units used for the temporary preservation of human remains during the COVID-19 pandemic subsequently can be safely used for food transport and food storage under certain circumstances.”
Obviously they’re not planning to just remove the dead and then instantly stock the trucks full of consumable food. They’ve said that, of course, the trucks need to be properly sanitised before reuse.
“It is important that food is protected during transport and storage to ensure food is safe for humans and animals and that conditions do not exist that may adulterate the food. Before returning to service to transport or store human or animal food, refrigerated food transport vehicles and refrigerated food storage units used to hold human remains during the COVID-19 pandemic should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.”
Y’know, even though they plan to clean the heck out of these trucks, I’m a bit hesitant to have my groceries delivered by any vehicle that was used to transport the dead. I don’t want no haunted groceries, thank you very much.
