While the wealthy may not be immune to Covid-19, their affluence makes it easier for them to insulate themselves. And yet some of the super-rich who have fled high-density areas like NYC may have put themselves at greater risk than if they had stayed put. edition.cnn.com/2020/04/05/opi…
The experience of the top 1% of US earners in the time of pandemic is harshly antithetical to the experience of an essential worker who must take public transport to get to a hospital or grocery store for a day's work.
One real estate mogul said he cracked open champagne beside the pool the day the CARES Act—the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history—was passed by Congress.
"Some people are going to get very rich out of this," someone else in the health care supplies business told me.
"Some people are going to get very rich out of this," someone else in the health care supplies business told me.
The irony of an elitist approach is that it may well backfire: The people who have left the city have put themselves at greater risk than if they had stayed put and practiced careful isolation and hygiene, since they have put themselves further away from the best hospitals.
The social division of Covid-19 could be summarized as "The Makers and the Takers,” says @DrAmandaForeman: 
