How about a Rest In Peace Corps?

 In my admittedly limited experience of these matters, the problems is never getting enough volunteers in times of crisis. Everyone likes to pitch in and do their bit, but as often as not, once they have finished tearing up bedsheets for bandages and boiling water, there is not a lot they can do.

So how about setting up volunteer grave digging squads or a  Rest In Peace Corps as Jack Kennedy would have called it? It would not only give the volunteers something to do, but the oldies (who are more likely to die of sheer ball busting boredom than the Chinese flu) could be taken out of purdah and allowed to watch.

And maybe we could have a band or two to cheer everyone up