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Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
UK Guardian ^ | March 11, 2020 | Rupert Neate

Posted on 03/12/2020 8:11:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Like hundreds of thousands of people across the world, the super-rich are preparing to self-isolate in the face of an escalation in the coronavirus crisis. But their plans extend far beyond stocking up on hand sanitiser and TV boxsets.

The world’s richest people are chartering private jets to set off for holiday homes or specially prepared disaster bunkers in countries that, so far, appear to have avoided the worst of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Many are understood to be taking personal doctors or nurses on their flights to treat them and their families in the event that they become infected. The wealthy are also besieging doctors in private clinics in Harley Street, London, and across the world, demanding private coronavirus tests.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; virus
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Sort of like back in the day people would flee towns and cities when the plague hit.
1 posted on 03/12/2020 8:11:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

You’d think this is 12 Monkeys.


2 posted on 03/12/2020 8:13:57 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: C19fan

Doesn’t matter. Their wait staff will have been exposed. And plenty of this super-rich crowd are already infected, just not yet symptomatic.


3 posted on 03/12/2020 8:15:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: C19fan

Health is probably the top concern for the super rich.
They can’t enjoy their fortunes if they are sick or dead.


4 posted on 03/12/2020 8:17:18 AM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: C19fan

They will swap their STDs with one another instead


5 posted on 03/12/2020 8:21:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: RoosterRedux

This is mostly nonsense. The “virus” is not going to infect more than a tiny percentage of the US population this year and more effective treatments and vaccinations will be available next year. President Trump will be able to say that we fought this monster and won, and the economy will be bouncing back like gangbusters this summer.


6 posted on 03/12/2020 8:23:22 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: C19fan

Interesting ... so people who make bad superhero movies and people who spend endless hours posting rants about bad superhero movies from their basements will both have improved chances of survival....


7 posted on 03/12/2020 8:25:59 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosoper)
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To: C19fan

“The rich stay healthy, the sick stay poor”

Bono


8 posted on 03/12/2020 8:26:23 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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A couple of years ago, some could have gone to Epstein’s Island.


9 posted on 03/12/2020 8:30:36 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: cuban leaf

There are some dandy bunkers on Little St James island.


10 posted on 03/12/2020 8:31:37 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: C19fan

Masque of the Red Death


11 posted on 03/12/2020 8:34:29 AM PDT by Montaignes Cat
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To: fireman15

“ This is mostly nonsense. The “virus” is not going to infect more than a tiny percentage of the US population this year and more effective treatments and vaccinations will be available next year. President Trump will be able to say that we fought this monster and won, and the economy will be bouncing back like gangbusters this summer.”

I sure wouldn’t state any of those items as known nor facts.

Before this is over, social distancing will be the norm until this is ends, and some areas i our country may need to be locked down.

No need to panic, but prepare.


12 posted on 03/12/2020 8:40:17 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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The “virus” is not going to infect more than a tiny percentage of the US population this year

Can you give an estimate of the tiny percentage? Thanks.

13 posted on 03/12/2020 8:41:55 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: C19fan

Time to go into my Hidie hole and re-read THE DECAMERON and MASK OF THE RED DEATH.


14 posted on 03/12/2020 8:42:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Montaignes Cat

One of Vincent Price’s better movies. I have seen it on the Comet channel.


15 posted on 03/12/2020 8:43:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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Betting the old goat of a worm, soros, is holed up somewhere protecting his decrepit self from what the ordinary folk have to undergo. And that he’s benefiting from the stock market crash.


16 posted on 03/12/2020 8:45:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: C19fan

Is Lolita Island up for sale yet?


17 posted on 03/12/2020 8:47:14 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: fireman15
That is one possible scenario. But still pure speculation.

Bottom line...we just don't know yet what we're dealing with and it is impossible at this time to assign odds.

18 posted on 03/12/2020 8:50:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Leep

Why do you think abortion is so important to the elites? They feast on the remnants of abortions to extend their soulless lives. No, I’m not kidding.


19 posted on 03/12/2020 8:56:20 AM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: fireman15

How can you be so sure?


20 posted on 03/12/2020 9:04:40 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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