Ways the wealthy could receive Coronavirus protection more than others

So far, the virus has been relatively egalitarian. It can affect the rich and the poor, and none have a cure.

This doesn't mean the rich don't have huge advantages. The poor often simply cannot socially isolate, in too many ways to list, from refugees in custody to low-wage workers; while the rich can far more easily, including some with luxury 'doomsday retreats' they paid millions of dollars for.

The rich can afford to at least receive a lot of care, but no cure.

A good example of the egalitarianism is Boris Johnson.

Imagine there were a rare and expensive cure - one which the likes of Johnson, or NBA players who did receive testing when people who really needed it could not get it received while others did not. That would be ugly; it's not the case now.

But it could happen. As early testing starts to show promising drugs, the powerful will be better able to get ahold of them 'unofficially' and earlier. One more official cures are identified, it will take time for them to be made available for billions; the powerful will get them earlier than others.

There is early evidence that the blood of recovered people offers benefits; it appears plausible that if so, the powerful will have more options to get ahold of that treatment before others.

We haven't yet seen inequality play a big role, but that could change.

There aren't a lot of rich people now performing the 'essential services' putting people at risk - groceries, transportation, medical work, police work, etc. Wall Street elites are pretty able to remain safe. That part of the inequality is hard to avoid; the possibility of unequal access to coming treatments is hard to avoid for different, corrupt reasons.

Craig234 said:

So far, the virus has been relatively egalitarian. It can affect the rich and the poor, and none have a cure.

This doesn't mean the rich don't have huge advantages. The poor often simply cannot socially isolate, in too many ways to list, from refugees in custody to low-wage workers; while the rich can far more easily, including some with luxury 'doomsday retreats' they paid millions of dollars for.

The rich can afford to at least receive a lot of care, but no cure.

A good example of the egalitarianism is Boris Johnson.

Imagine there were a rare and expensive cure - one which the likes of Johnson, or NBA players who did receive testing when people who really needed it could not get it received while others did not. That would be ugly; it's not the case now.

But it could happen. As early testing starts to show promising drugs, the powerful will be better able to get ahold of them 'unofficially' and earlier. One more official cures are identified, it will take time for them to be made available for billions; the powerful will get them earlier than others.

There is early evidence that the blood of recovered people offers benefits; it appears plausible that if so, the powerful will have more options to get ahold of that treatment before others.

We haven't yet seen inequality play a big role, but that could change.

There aren't a lot of rich people now performing the 'essential services' putting people at risk - groceries, transportation, medical work, police work, etc. Wall Street elites are pretty able to remain safe. That part of the inequality is hard to avoid; the possibility of unequal access to coming treatments is hard to avoid for different, corrupt reasons.

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Compare the news coverage for all the furloughed nonessential gov employees during a gov shutdown to the nonexistent coverage of all the blue collar people currently being put out of work now and tell me inequality isnt playing a big role.



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Compare the news coverage for all the furloughed nonessential gov employees during a gov shutdown to the nonexistent coverage of all the blue collar people currently being put out of work now and tell me inequality isnt playing a big role.

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We're out to get you. Be afraid.

OldFatGuy said:

We're out to get you. Be afraid.

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I'm well aware, maybe its you who should be afraid.

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trouble13 said:

I'm well aware, maybe its you who should be afraid.

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I fear nothing, with the caveat of those who don't when their legs are being pulled.

Using a political leader as your prime example of better health care dealing with COVID-19 is not unusual. Major world leaders always receive better care than the average person.

Here is a list of famous people (non politicians) who have died from complication of COVID-19. There status and money didn't save them.

Celebrity deaths from coronavirus: Stars who died of COVID-19 (updated list) - syracuse.com

The OP premise is a "what if" game.

And the Latter Day Saints will have even more protection. A great many of them will never need to leave their homes at all.

Where's the conspiracy? That's just human greed in action.

People with money eat better, wear better clothes, drive better cars, live in better homes, have a better education, and a thousand other lesser things than people with less money. Of course they are going to avoid the Kung Flu better than the rest of us, just like they avoid many other deadly illnesses better than the rest of us. The only "fix" for this is mass redistribution of wealth, and that's never worked, it just adjusted who received the extra benefits from those with money to those who ended up at the top of heap when the dust settled.