I know one.
My sister who lives about a half hour away from me knows 2 others, one of whom had lunch with her husband 14 days prior to his diagnosis. My BIL was contacted by the local health department (Virginia is doing a good job at contact tracing, so far), but as of now he is okay.
I have a niece who lives and works in LA. She recently relocated into her parents home in Orange County, CA to get out of LA. She is working remotely from there.
A few days after she moved in with her parents, she was contacted by someone she worked with who had tested positive. My niece had socialized with her a few days before that.
I don’t know why others here don’t have similar experiences. Perhaps it is because a lot of you don’t live on either the East or West coast.
We live on the west coast/California and have relatives in the East Coast. One is back in California after her college cancelled classes a little over a week ago on the east coast. She knew of no one with the virus there or here.
Our families and friends are not on welfare, and we would not be considered elites, who may be getting the front load of this virus. Nor do we live in poverty nor Hollywood mansions.
“Respiratory viruses, Mr. Snowden says, tend to be socially indiscriminate in whom they infect. Yet because of its origins in the vectors of globalization, the coronavirus appears to have affected the elite in a high-profile way,” the Journal piece states. “From Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, people who travel frequently or are in touch with travelers have been among the first to get infected.”
The infection of thousands of the nation’s rich and upper-middle-class has driven class warfare in regions like the Hamptons in New York where some of the wealthiest, most liberal celebrities own property.
A report by Maureen Callahan for the New York Post chronicles how the working class staff of the Hamptons’ elite are turning on them as those infected disregard rules and Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines:
“There’s not a vegetable to be found in this town right now,” says one resident of Springs, a working-class pocket of East Hampton. “It’s these elitist people who think they don’t have to follow the rules.” [Emphasis added]
It’s not just the drastic food shortage out here. Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing … — and in some cases, knowingly bringing coronavirus. [Emphasis added]
“We’re at the end of Long Island, the tip, and waves of people are bringing this s–t,” says lifelong Montauker James Katsipis. “We should blow up the bridges. Don’t let them in.” [Emphasis added]
While globalization has delivered soaring profits for corporate executives, working- and middle-class American communities have been left behind to grapple with fewer jobs, less industry, stagnant wages, and increase competition in the labor market due to decades-long mass legal immigration.
Since 2001, free trade with China has cost millions of Americans their jobs. For example, the Economic Policy Institute has found that from 2001 to 2015, about 3.4 million U.S. jobs were lost due to the nation’s trade deficit with China.
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breitbart. ^ | 3/29/2020 | John Binder