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

[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.

There is one hospital in the Hamptons and it has 125 beds. The concern is that a bunch of asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic people will head to their second homes a spread the virus at a rate that the small hospitals out on the East End can't handle. There was already an outbreak on the North Fork in Southold that was straining community resources. Now that the rich people from NYC came out to LI, they're circulating in the community and infecting people who may not have been exposed otherwise. A lot of people also don't realize just how long it takes to drive from one end of Long Island to the other. If the sick overwhelm the East End, they will have to drive or be transported a real distance to receive care. Also the roads out in the Hamptons are single lane in each direction in areas; traffic gets backed up quite badly. It could be life and death for people.

[pwrpuffgrl]

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