The @latimes reports that many poor and working class people call coronavirus the 'rich man’s disease:' "carried in by travelers returning from business trips in China, studies in Europe, ski vacations in the Rockies." lat.ms/2SR1FtQ
Was just reading about the Black Death, which was also carried by the wealthy, who fled the cities to country estates (the Middle Ages version of vacation homes), spreading plague. bit.ly/35NIpmD
The @latimes piece continues, "The well-off have been refining social distancing for years, and when contagion appears, societies’ first instinct has often been to target and sequester the poor. ... when a pandemic begins with the rich, the poor have nowhere to hide."
