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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.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; virus
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To: RoosterRedux
“Doesn’t matter. Their wait staff will have been exposed. And plenty of this super-rich crowd are already infected, just not yet symptomatic.”

I agree 100%. These are the people we love to hire service workers from foreign countries who don’t have the pernicious American belief in equality and who have a decided lack of deference to people like them. Now it’s biting them in the ass.

21 posted on 03/12/2020 9:10:50 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: Lizavetta
How can you be so sure?

I am satisfied to go with the percentages. We are told day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year that some horrible calamity is going to befall us all. This is egged on by the media, and the Democrats especially are wishing with every fiber of their being for a disaster that can pin on President Trump.

Global Warming hasn't worked, Russian Collusion hasn't worked, and a bunch of other things haven't worked. More people in this country have died falling down in their bath tubs in the last month than have died from corona-virus. Yet the Democrats and the media have found something that is actually scaring people... they are going to milk it for all its worth. I worry about the damage they are doing to this country, not the virus. If you choose to get caught up in the hysteria that is your problem.

22 posted on 03/12/2020 10:46:24 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: C19fan

Ask the professionals and rich if they stocked up on grey poupon. Don’t forget the wagyu beef and sunblock.


23 posted on 03/12/2020 10:48:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: C19fan

Interesting...
I do recall within the last 2 years South Hampton residents building these bunkers to protect against gangs.
Hmmmmmmm.....


24 posted on 03/12/2020 10:49:57 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcf theome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: Rune Ravenstone

Important coronavirus update!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qopdYE3_QoU


26 posted on 03/12/2020 11:02:14 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: C19fan

This is like Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”


27 posted on 03/12/2020 11:35:14 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: C19fan

didn’t help Prince Prospero and his super-rich friends:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death


28 posted on 03/12/2020 10:18:22 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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