The World Has Officially Gone Mad

Masking corpses

A reader in Northern Italy told us this story. It’s macabre, unreal, and, quite frankly, dotty.

Our reader’s father died of natural causes. After a five-act drama to get permission to bury him (we’ll spare you the details), our reader went to the funeral parlour to say goodbye to his dad.

The mortician greeted him, wearing a mask. The reader inquired whether they still put corpses in body bags as they did during the recent plague. This is an inhuman practice preventing those who want to see their loved ones for the last time.

“Oh no”, came the reply. “We wear a mask, and we put one on the deceased these days; no need for body bags any more; a mask will do. The hospital does not dress them; we do these days. But this is just for those who tested positive for Covid”.