Quincy COVID-19 Death Toll blows past 100 but where are the bodies?

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Quincy COVID-19 Death Toll blows past 100 but where are the bodies?

On the usually quiet news cycle that is a Friday afternoon and thus an ideal day to release bad news in the hope of burying it, City of Quincy officials announced that Quincy’s COVID-19 death toll has blown past 100.

Not acknowledged, however, by city officials is how Quincy has long been a hotspot for COVID-19 deaths as it suffered early fatalities – including suffering the very first fatality in the South Shore region, was then among the harder hit communities racing up the curve, and currently has a death rate roughly 30% higher than the state average on a duly population adjusted basis.

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Then again, the Koch Maladministration has never been know for proper and comprehensive transparency.

In any event, Quincy Quarry recently endeavored to find out where local recent both COVID-19 fatalities as well as those who have died from other causes have been laid to eternal rest. 

After all, City of Boston cemetery workers have been working overtime to keep up with a considerable recent increase in demand.

To this end, Quincy Quarry extensively walked Quincy’s historic Mount Wollaston Cemetery to see if it was experiencing an uptick in burial activity.

City of Quincy cemetery workers hardly working?
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While many locals probably think that this venerable old cemetery and which makes up Quincy’s Ward 7 for voting purposes is essentially filled to capacity to capacity with but a relatively few plots available within mostly long ongoing family plots, several years ago the cemetery underwent a renovation and which included opening up space for an estimated upwards of several hundred new burial plots. 

The new capacity at the Mount Wollaston Cemetery was made available by taking out a couple of short paved accessways which were deemed unnecessary and removing some rarely used parking capacity. 

Formerly paved parking area, left; former paved access way, center; and the Koch Way, right.
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So far, however, only two deceased couples have been interred within the new capacity.

The first couple took up permanent residence in the new burial capacity just short of three years ago and they are the parents of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch. 

While renovation work was still underway at the time of their interment, Quincy Quarry did witness that work around the Koch plots appeared to be focused around their prime resting place.  Surely but a coincidence, however.

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And the other couple, former Quincy Mayor Walter Hannon and his wife who both died within days of each other, took up residence nearby just short of two years ago, albeit not in as prime a pair of plots.

At the time of the Kochs’ passing, Quincy Quarry was advised via official channels indirectly that the new capacity at Mount Wollaston Cemetery was not yet available (to the public, ed.) as the new capacity had yet to be subdivided and then duly recorded. 

The Quarry was also concurrently advised that plots were only available for purchase in the City of Quincy’s two public cemeteries upon the event of need.

Granted, cremation is an ever increasingly popular final option, there clearly has to be an increased local demand lately and surely three years is more than enough time to duly survey and then subdivide the new capacity at Mount Wollaston Cemetery.

Plus, Quincy Quarry has heard rumblings of sotto voce offerings of Mount Wollaston plots made to at least certain among the local political class.

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Needless to say, if the rumors are true, such would set a new low for the déclassée Koch Maladministration as such would clearly constitute a corrupt abuse of a municipally owned and operated facility.

Then again, when it comes to dining at the public trough, Quincy’s hacktocracy is all but without peer.

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