Rich people acting badly

[malada]

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-should-blow-up-the-bridges-coronavirus-leads-to-class-warfare-in-hamptons/

*rage* *seethe*

The short story - rich New Yorkers raid the local stores then decamp to their vacation homes to party. They ignore shelter in place warnings then demand immediate health care when they get sick because they're rich.

Never mind these vacation spots don't have the needed facilities.

-m

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[marahmarie]

I used to live close enough to the Hamptons that we used to have to compete with them for resources from the outlying towns where we lived. Of course back then the Hamptons were more at best a spotty enclave for the rich-rich, not the celebrity and tech-rich that started taking over by the 90s.

I take it they'd be just as selfish as the rich-rich if not more so, and much more flamboyant about it because of the already-narcissistic lifestyles.

What pains me to think about is a hospital ER I won't name in case they've got their low-paid minions scouring social media for handy tips that we used to go to from the town we lived in to avoid waiting hours and getting obscene bills from the local hospital.

There was never a wait, it was in a fairly well-off though not name-y, show-off type town so it was clean, staffed with nice people and well-run, and the bills were a tiny fraction of what you'd pay out by us so worth it to make the 40ish minute trip out there, if you weren't sorely in need of on-the-spot care. Best-kept secret in the world for low-income people; nearly miraculous find.

It's probably been overrun if not taken over outright by the rich, though, by now.