Nobody on the inside is at risk to either transmit or receive the disease. And anyway, by definition they are all six feet away even if you are indelicate enough to stand right on them.
I suppose a charitable explanation would be that it would be bad if there was a death in one of the big families that live in our area. It would not look good to have a hundred people gathered around a gravesite ceremony. This naturally ignores several key concepts.
- If literally staring death in the face does not persuade you to take precautions, nothing will.
- funeral directors and clergyfolk do have some discretion, and don't have to schedule such a service.
- those families, and if you are local you know 'em, would probably have a big Wake the night before. With alcohol. In an enclosed space.
The vehicle gate on the other end of the cemetery was naturally open so this the sort of response to the Current Unpleasantness that grates because it is ineffectual as well as petty and lazy.
This virus has taught me what a high percentage of the population are walking, mindless chunks of protein.
ReplyDeleteI’m sure you can get a valid explanation from the president of the local cemetery board whilst having side yard beverages.
ReplyDeletePhilosopher Kings.
ReplyDeleteWell, looking forward to that, weather permitting. Have him prepare a good answer. I suppose you could claim that it was to keep wayward neighborhood rascals from going in after dark and drinking beer.....but the actual effect would be that they just go next door to the entirely un-fenced cemetery of a different persuasion.
ReplyDeleteProving that both in this life and the next the Catholics party more?
TJW