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A few high-profile lifestyle

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 04:08:24 +0000

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A few high-profile lifestyle influencers have posted about fleeing New York City to smaller towns and other states, potentially endangering local communities and inadvertently encouraging their followers to do the same. https://t.co/GyvRbHidMU
— NYT Styles (@NYTStyles) April 2, 2020

Complacency? Too early for

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:26:16 +0000

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Complacency? Too early for garden parties, so had to hold sourees indoors? A bit of East Egg in the Bronx? my Ft Apache imagery is torn.

NYT did a NYC map, my zip

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 07:07:13 +0000

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NYT did a NYC map, my zip code has only 104 positives, is mostly working class and mixture of plain brick apartment buildings and attached townhouses on teeny lots. Zip code next to us west, has 253, is up steep hill (hence the "street steps" in The Joker, and boy, are they a "fence", I figure was done on purpose to keep the riffraff away-is real hard to get up there and no subway) and on the Hudson River is "the exclusive Riverdale section of the Bronx" circa 1910-1920, with lovely boulevards and cul de secs, old trees mansions and manses with yards as large as any upper class nabe anywhere. Lots more air and space, privacy, more cases, go figure.

Let them eat Netflix (or the

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 06:39:39 +0000

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Let them eat Netflix (or the cheaper quivalent). As bad as it may be, this is not your grandpa's Depression - the connectivity of mobile phones equalizes and tamps down a lot of the terror.

I pulled out what remained of

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 06:36:40 +0000

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I pulled out what remained of my fence, using my urban 7-seater as a makeshift tractor. Now I'm defenseless. Gone are the days of wonder at the fireworks across the mountains - now it's just silence and waiting for the Plague to subsume. The neighbor put up a post with milemarkers. I want to add one for "Oblivion", but I don't know how far... Could be close, in which case doesn't matter.

Starting to see a pitchfork

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 06:25:08 +0000

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Starting to see a pitchfork meme on topic more and more:

I talked to 3 dozen people who live full-time in rural/resort areas (or who are debating leaving the city for their second homes) to write this piece on how the privilege to "escape" cities is gong to ravage rural communities: https://t.co/P1dpIHX6xV
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) March 31, 2020

Rich Europeans Flee Virus for

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:21:31 +0000

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Rich Europeans Flee Virus for Second Homes, Spreading Fear and Fury

In France and the rest of Europe, the affluent are decamping cities to spend their confinement in vacation homes, widening class divides.

By Norimitsu Onishi and Constant Méheut @ NYTimes.com, March 29

ÎLE DE NOIRMOUTIER, France — On their peaceful island off France’s Atlantic Coast, some of the locals watched, with growing dread and rage, the images from Paris. As rumors began circulating about an imminent nationwide lockdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak, hordes of Parisians jammed into trains, an odd surfboard sometimes sticking out of the crowd.

There was no doubt about their destination.

“Irresponsible and selfish,” thought Dr. Cyrille Vartanian, one of the six physicians on Noirmoutier. With some time to spare — Paris was roughly five hours away — a local mayor, Noël Faucher, moved to block the only bridge to the mainland. But the national authorities said it would be illegal.

“We were powerless because people were not confined to their principal residences,” Mr. Faucher recalled, describing the influx as “an invasion.”

Overnight, the island’s population nearly doubled, to 20,000. Nearly two weeks after the nationwide lockdown went into effect on March 17, there are about 70 suspected cases of the coronavirus on the island.

In France and across Europe, affluent city dwellers have been decamping epicenters of the crisis to their second homes, where proximity to the sea or the mountains lessens the discomfort of confinement and a decent internet link permits remote work. But they also bring fears that they will spread the virus to regions with few hospitals to handle a surge in the sick, putting at greater risk local residents who tend to be older and have limited incomes [....]

It has hit the Villages.

artappraiser — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:55:18 +0000

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It has hit the Villages.

31 cases and counting. https://t.co/YffMvBRUah https://t.co/LyhdCMruQz
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 28, 2020

Sumter Co, which is pretty much just the Villages, has the 3rd highest infection rate in Florida. pic.twitter.com/JKrodpjvO5
— Bill Vayens (@wvayens) March 28, 2020

Oh yeah, forgot about this

artappraiser — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 01:26:07 +0000

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Oh yeah, forgot about this one, seems like so long ago I read it--the Westport CT superspreader party, clueless jetsetters, NYTimes March 23, two reporters on it:

Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’

About 50 people gathered this month for a party in the upscale suburb of Westport, then scattered across the region and the world, taking the coronavirus with them.

Not super rich but certainly

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:48:34 +0000

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Not super rich but certainly famous for being a specialized lifestyle community:

The Villages, Florida's huge Republican-rich retirement community, is experiencing community spread of coronavirus more than a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized for his slow and cautious response https://t.co/6u79KxMxcn
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) March 27, 2020