Some of Mexico's wealthiest residents went to Colorado to ski. They brought home coronavirus

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From https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-20/some-of-mexicos-wealthiest-residents-went-to-colorado-to-ski-they-brought-home-coronavirus

Some of Mexico’s wealthiest residents went to Colorado to ski. They brought home coronavirus

By KATE LINTHICUM
STAFF WRITER
MARCH 20, 2020 5:12 PM

MEXICO CITY — Each winter, some of Mexico’s wealthiest residents flock to the snowy slopes of Colorado to ski, shop and socialize.

This year, at least 14 — and probably many more — came home infected with the coronavirus.

In a country that has not yet been hard hit by the pandemic, the travelers have become a focal point of efforts to prevent the virus from spreading widely.

Several of Mexico’s most prominent business leaders — including a banking executive, the chairman of Mexico’s stock exchange and the chief executive of the company that makes Jose Cuervo tequila — tested positive for the virus after traveling to Vail, a ski resort west of Denver.

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[malaise]

1. One of the interesting things about this virus is that it it isn't the really low income

folks who are spreading it. Looks more like the high end travelers and frequent fliers and the cruise ship tourists.

[2naSalit]

2. Looking that way...

of course it will be blamed on the poor, as usual.

[malaise]

3. I suspect that the most deaths will be the poor

because the rich have access to tests

[2naSalit]

4. And hospital care more quickly than the poor.

In my area there are as many trophy homes as permanent ones and those people all showed up in the last couple weeks emptying out the grocery stores and will fill our small hospitals when they get sick. And they look at us as though there's something wrong with us.

And those are the folks who will bring the virus here to us.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yep.