The rich infected the poor as COVID-19 spread around the world

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SINGAPORE — When it arrived in the unforgiving industrial towns of central Mexico, the sand-swept sprawl of northern Nigeria and the mazes of metal shanties in India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, COVID-19 went by another name.

People called it a “rich man’s disease.”

Pandemics throughout history have been associated with the underprivileged, but in many developing countries the coronavirus was a high-class import — carried in by travelers returning from business trips in China, studies in Europe, ski vacations in the Rockies.

As infections initially concentrated in better neighborhoods, many poor and working-class people believed the disease wouldn’t touch them, as if something terrible but rarefied. The misperception was fed by elites, including the governor of Mexico’s Puebla state, Luis Miguel Barbosa, who said in March: “If you’re rich, you’re at risk, but if you’re poor, you’re not. The poor, we’re immune.”

By now it is clear that COVID-19 spares no one and disproportionately harms the hungry, the forgotten, those with preexisting illnesses and substandard health care.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-rich-infected-the-poor-as-covid-19-spread-around-the-world/ar-BB13UO0l?li=BBnb7Kz

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Something that I found interesting.

We had the CES Electronics Show at our Las Vegas Convention Center during the early part of November 1999. 170k visitors from all over the Globe . Our neighbors Son had a booth at this show,and his comments were,damn I was just plain Lucky. He was in the Wuhan area one week before this show and on his flight back from China,there were several Techies and Engineers from various Firms both Chinese and Americans. That flight went thru Newark were he visited with his Son at that Airport during a lay over. Then on to Vegas. He Commented about how he had what was called the Vegas Flu which smack many about Thanksgiving and shortly after. BTW,same for his adult son whom he visited in Newark .

As he mentioned yesterday,everyone whom he knew or worked with at CES came down with the Flu or has contracted a version of Covid.

[Igel]

2. And this.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/15/815828858/coronavirus-and-the-rich-beaubien

[Hortensis]

3. This virus is indifferent to class. If it didn't travel fast by air,

it'd still go everywhere by ship.