Journalist calls out celebs for isolating in their second homes

[ms_mmelissa]

Look who's apparently hunkering down in Montana pic.twitter.com/Mi7l6WHFSH
- Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) April 1, 2020

• Armie Hammer's nemesis Anne Helen Petersen wrote an article about how rich people are planning to wait out covid-19 in their spacious second homes in small rural communities
• Locals are already terrified because their small

Comments

[colossusx]

i don't see the problem? i doubt 5 people moving to a town is going to "decimate" a hospital. naw someone explain to me what's inherently evil about this?

[mhfromnh]

Long Island and Cape Cod are dealing with richies fleeing NYC to their vacation homes months earlier than usual, so the grocery stores aren't stocking for the increased populations.

[colossusx]

again, what's that got to do with the hospitals? or this post? this is about a handful of celebrities moving to different towns and the effect it'll have on healthcare.

and look at that, the richies moving to their secluded homes in an effort to social distance.

listen, i'm all for eating the rich but the reach here is...whew.

[mhfromnh]

unless they're coming with a full supply for a 14-day quarantine, they will go out into the community to buy groceries. if they're asymptomatic carriers they can be patient zero of a new cluster.

[januarysix]

exactly. This disease is mainly being spread first by affluent travelers.

[drakefn]

MTE, I don't get the outrage.

[madhler]

It’s not just a handful of celebs tho - wealthy people everywhere are doing it. It’s like Memorial Day weekend at beach towns all over New England right now.

[fimh]

same in new jersey. its a major issue

[eyeoneye]

So lots of rich people have been going out to the Hamptons earlier than the area usually prepares for a sudden population influx. There are a limited number of year round residents of the Hamptons, some are rich, some are not (people who work in the service industry that caters to the ultra wealthy for example). The grocery stores and the hospitals at this time of year staff at a level appropriate to serve the year-round residents and then hires seasonal workers for Memorial Day - Labor Day to handle all the weekenders and people with summer houses

[pwrpuffgrl]

NYC being the epicenter of the virus shouldn't allow people leave the state imo.

[echotango23]

I think what they mean is these celebs have the ability to travel much further to more remote locations than most. Those towns would buckle if even one of those celebs had COVID, its simply too contagious, imagine if the town doctors are infected... Those places probably aren't observing quarantine due to less testing in their states, its so easy to ruin a small place. But I could be wrong, that's just my take

[colossusx]

let me read the article before guessing anymore as to what the problem is, this all feels super clickbaity.

[rabbitncavylove]

There was a couple who fled to a small town near Alaska from Quebec. They were shipped back. There are multiple articles on this? They can spread the virus, and overwhelm the local towns. Most don’t have a real hospital and like part time doctors. Maybe one to three ventilators. They could decimate the town easily with community spread.

[heyignatzmouse]

I was raging all of yesterday over those two.
Quebec has the highest number of covid cases in all of Canada so they decided to go to a tiny indigenous community in the Yukon after selling all their worldly possessions expecting to get jobs there.

apparently the community has a housing crisis and doesn’t even have a full time doctor - they have one fly in every couple months.
they also have a ton of elders and lots of smokers/ppl with lung issues so any kind of outbreak there would be a disaster.

it’s so selfish to put communities like that at risk.
idk why it’s so hard for ppl to stay home omfg.

[tiny_winey87]

those two are a trip !!!! so ridiculous, it came to them in a dream. gtfoh!

[fimh]

its not. my small beach town has one terrible hospital on the mainland that wont be able to handle the locals, let alone non primary residents. the grocery stores (2 open year round) arent stocked for non primary residents. two old ladies died because someone came down for a birthday party in early march after being exposed in NYC.