The levels of horror witnessed there tear at the soul. Particularly telling is the crew removing the body make no effort to prevent the guy from filming them with his phone. They’re not caring about CCP appearances anymore. At least not the poor people on the ground bringing out the dead.
If the number of unhospitalized critically ill--and thus the dead--is as high as we've been speculating they are, then those guys on body-removal duty have been working long shifts trying to keep up with their duties, and don't have the time or energy to argue with randos taking video--as soon as they load one body, they're off to pick up another. They're also wearing protective gear that is hot, uncomfortable, and hinders their peripheral vision, so between that, and focusing on getting the task at hand done so they can get out of there, they probably barely notice the person filming them.
When it comes down to it, the body-removal crews are just overworked humans with a difficult, stressful, physically and emotionally draining job, even shittier bosses than usual, and heavy penalties awaiting them if they dare talk openly about the things they've seen. I'd be pretty fucking numbed out under those conditions, too.
There was a comment earlier today asking why the government was herding the sick (and suspected sick) into horribly unsuitable and ill-equipped temporary hospitals, rather than allowing people to shelter at home. I suspect it's primarily to make timely body removal and disposal easier because they are mostly in one location, rather than scattered throughout the city. The purpose-built Huoshenshan hospital is for the worst cases, held on lockdown in a maze of cells well out of the public eye until they die or recover. The ward hospital at the convention center is for less serious cases, but as soon as they turn serious, they'll probably get sent to Huoshenshan, because letting them stay and die in full view of the less-sick (and their phone cameras) would look bad.
At Huoshenshan, body removal crews could keep mortuary vans parked at strategic locations around the facility; the weather's been cold, so they could just keep adding bodies over the course of a day, leaving only when there were enough to make a run to a crematorium. Or, they could store bodies in refrigerated tractor trailers, which is common in disaster zones even here in the US.
It would take a lot less manpower to handle body disposal this way than it currently does by going house-to-house in city neighborhoods on an on-call basis. It also means they are less likely to miss bodies, especially in cases where somebody lived alone and died unnoticed.
It's obvious that these temporary hospital facilities are there for containment, not treatment--but not just containment of the infected who might spread the disease, or containment of bodies for easier disposal, but containment of information, as well. Keeping the dead contained, concentrated within highly-controlled spaces, means nobody outside the hospitals (or China) can get a more accurate picture of just how many people are dying. With far fewer mortuary vans on the streets, and far fewer chances to video bodies being removed from houses, it might be possible to create the illusion that things aren't so bad, or are letting up.
