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Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭

 It's every man for himself now,the super-rich go hide so they can come back later after the plague is over.
                                                                serf
  
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/disease-dodging-worried-wealthy-jet-off-to-disaster-bunkers

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.

To avoid overwhelming limited testing facilities, the NHS said it would test only people with a “high chance” of having the illness – meaning people who had had close contact with a confirmed case or who had recently gone to a high-risk country.



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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    A bit too late for Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson.
  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    Jet fuel is cheap right now
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    Watch Congress run for the bunkers too,for they must be protected in order to govern our courageous fight against the virus and fund the first responders with all the funny fiat money they need.  Iran is burying thousands right now in mass graves. How far behind are we now from the same dilemma. >:)

                             serf
     

    Iran's coronavirus burial pits are so vast they're visible from space

     https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12316283

    At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 130km south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as February 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches - their lengths totaling 100m - were visible at the site from space.

    According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.




  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    If I had the money and the means I would have a bunker too.   I have what I need here at home to last me several months if need be.
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    serf said:
    Watch Congress run for the bunkers too,for they must be protected in order to govern our courageous fight against the virus and fund the first responders with all the funny fiat money they need.  Iran is burying thousands right now in mass graves. How far behind are we now from the same dilemma. >:)

                             serf
     

    Iran's coronavirus burial pits are so vast they're visible from space

     https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12316283

    At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 130km south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as February 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches - their lengths totaling 100m - were visible at the site from space.

    According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.




    In 2018, an average of 1,205 Iranians died per day  (5.3 per 1,000 out of a population of 83 million.)

    There have been fewer than 500 Corona-virus deaths over a 3+ week period.  The additional deaths per day are not sufficient to create the need for a vast new burial complex.  The story is either hype or tripe.

    They may be separating virus victims from non virus victims.  Probably a good idea, as you would not want it to spread throughout the whole cemetery.



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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭

    I was stationed for 4 years, at the "Underground Bunker," Congress would be moved to. Having spent a considerable amount of time inside. It would really suck to have infected person inside on a "Lock Down," I do not know how you would prevent that. Definitively.

    Everyone would be exposed, in short order.

      Quarantine them first in small groups in individual rooms and wait two weeks and bunker them and bring in another group and rinse and repeat. Since there are so many hotels with plenty of vacancies now you could do it in mass too. And Bingo Bunkered.
                                                              serf

                                                                              

  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
     Yeah it's called self -preservation. I like Josey Wales movie when the old Indian said The War Sectary stated you have to endeavor to persevere!  Kind'a looks that way again.                           
                                              serf

  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,671 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020

    Probably putting myself on a "watch list," as we speak.

    I have seen some crazy sheeit.

    Hope a couple of months from now we won't be wondering "What ever became of good old Ken?". 😁 Bob
  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    Money can buy a test ahead of anyone else, and perhaps better treatments but it can't protect them from the virus no matter where they go. It would probably be best to get it now before everything is maxed out.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,309 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    Years ago I went down in the bunker at White Sulfur Springs, Va., I'd rather take my chances outside on high ground where I can see what's happening.............underground bunkers aren't for me. NOTE: this place is and has been public knowledge for years, even TV specials have been made about it....so I'm not giving up any classified info here.  ;)

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭
    Do you suppose Mr. Bloomberg is "heading off to a secret bunker" now?

    -cuz . . . you know . . . he has nothing going on anyway.


  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    serf said:
    Watch Congress run for the bunkers too,for they must be protected in order to govern our courageous fight against the virus and fund the first responders with all the funny fiat money they need.  Iran is burying thousands right now in mass graves. How far behind are we now from the same dilemma. >:)

                             serf
     

    Iran's coronavirus burial pits are so vast they're visible from space

     https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12316283

    At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 130km south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as February 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches - their lengths totaling 100m - were visible at the site from space.

    According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.




    In 2018, an average of 1,205 Iranians died per day  (5.3 per 1,000 out of a population of 83 million.)

    There have been fewer than 500 Corona-virus deaths over a 3+ week period.  The additional deaths per day are not sufficient to create the need for a vast new burial complex.  The story is either hype or tripe.

    They may be separating virus victims from non virus victims.  Probably a good idea, as you would not want it to spread throughout the whole cemetery.




    I was wondering what the daily death rate was. Another option is that the death rate is far higher than they will admit to. I'm not much on conspiracies but with the number of quarantines, travel restrictions, and state of emergencies issued has me curious.
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    I would rather be on a luxury cruise ship than stuck down in a hole in the ground!   I would spend most of my time out on the deck breathing fresh air!   Do some fishing too!
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