NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. (WNCN) — A New York City lawmaker mentioned in a series of tweets that the city may be forced to temporarily bury those who died from COVID-19 in parks across the city.

Councilman Mark Levine (D-Manhattan) said “soon we’ll [NYC] start ‘temporary interment.”

“This likely will be done by using a NYC park for burials (yes you read that right). Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line.”

“It will be done in a dignified, orderly–and temporary–manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take,” Levine wrote, adding in another tweet, “The goal is to avoid scenes like those in Italy, where the military was forced to collect bodies from churches and even off the streets.”

He continued by saying this “is a contingency NYC is preparing for BUT if the death rate drops enough it will not be necessary.”

Levine later said “nothing matters more in this crisis than saving the living. But we need to face the gruesome reality that we need more resources to manage our dead as well. Or the pain of this crisis will be compounded almost beyond comprehension.”