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In my country the wealthy went ... in their summer house on the islands. You know, the typical location which is usually not self-sufficient and definitively n
by luch 7y ago
In my country the wealthy went ... in their summer house on the islands.
You know, the typical location which is usually not self-sufficient and definitively not autonomous when it come to medical care facilities.
- xfitm3 7y agoTheres nothing wrong with seeking comfort in this weird time. Even if you're rich and have a house on an island.
- throwanem 7y agoThere's plenty wrong with being a damned fool, especially if your damnfoolishness poses a real risk of harm to others.
- exclusiv 7y agoHow does driving to your second house pose a real risk?
- lambertsimnel 7y agoDriving to a 2nd home in a more sparsely populated area might endanger people if some people leaving cities are carrying Covid 19. If those more sparsely populated areas have relatively easily overwhelmed healthcare systems, then they're especially dangerous places to have or spread the virus. Covid 19 is likely to be more common in big cities, which tend to have the best resourced healthcare. Driving to a 2nd home in a more densely populated area might be less dangerous, but could still spread the virus.
- ryanianian 7y agoAs long as you self-quarantine for the recommended 14 days after arriving somewhere new, you're actually decreasing the number of potential spreading vectors by removing another person from the densely-populated area. It's key that you be strict with your quarantine and don't go to stores/gas stations/etc.
- danharaj 7y agoHave you met rich people?
- ryanianian 7y agoYou don't have to be rich to have a second home in a rural area.
- throwanem 7y agoDon't you?
- ryanianian 7y agoYou can get a second home outside of the NYC area for under $70k. It can come to as little as $15k down and $500/month all-in including utilities/taxes/*. Not chump-change but certainly not "rich" levels of money.
- danharaj 7y agoSure, and those people I'm more confident would be conscientious neighbors. But people who have second houses in tourist destinations, well, (X) doubt.
- throwanem 7y agoIt shouldn't need explaining to anyone who's been paying attention at all for the last two months, but: You can spend up to two weeks infected and contagious before you start showing symptoms. So when you drive a long way, from a place with lots of cases to a place with few or none, and then do stuff like go to stores to get groceries or whatever the hell rich people do to open up a vacation house that's been uninhabited for a while, you're quite likely to be spreading the disease without realizing it. That's a favor to the virus, but not so much to the townies of whatever picturesque vacation destination you're gracing with your property taxes - and where hospital support is weaker in any case than wherever you conceive of yourself as fleeing from, because picturesque vacation destinations don't need much or any ICU resource most of the time.
- ryanianian 7y agoThere is a way to do it safely: follow the same 14-day self-quarantine regimen that's recommended for anyone who's traveled. Don't go to stores, don't go to gas stations, pretend like there is nuclear fallout outside.
- throwanem 7y agoI feel like that's a lot of benefit of the doubt on behalf of someone who's already behaving selfishly, you know?
- ryanianian 7y agoSorry, but how is it selfish? If you can leave a dense area and self-quarantine for 14 days, you're actually doing a net positive by reducing density. The only added "risk" is that you might crash your car on the way. That feels less bad than retransmitting the disease in a crowded area.
- throwanem 7y agoYou can just as effectively, maybe more effectively, self-quarantine in a dense area, and not risk any circumstance at all leading to transmission elsewhere.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoThat describes 99.99999% of locations.