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Rich Indians trying to flee Covid ridden country

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30 pointsgyre00713 comments

Every time people use money to try to better their lives, somebody publishes a smear piece. Like we don't work to earn, so we can improve things for our families.

"Middle-class American selfishly moves to neighborhood with better schools for her kids! News at 11"

Remember kids - having fun is bad! Your bad and you should feel bad!

Ugh - I had modern culture.

How is the article a smear piece? It doesn't talk about anything but the sudden increase in demand for flights out of the country and the big jump in prices.

Your defensiveness is very odd.

Rich is a slur these days.

"Rich Indians trying to flee" is pretty perjorative? How about "Those that can, leave the worst Covid hot spots".

> "Rich Indians trying to flee" is pretty perjorative?

I don't think it's pejorative at all.

They're rich, they're citizens of India, and they're scrambling to get out of the country in a hurry and spending a lot of money to do so. If I were in their place and had the means, I'd be doing the exact same thing.

Don't get me wrong; I agree.

But then why does anybody read the article? Because the title is salacious. That seems pretty clear.

I think if someone's rich enough to get a private jet then the odds are it was a little more than their own surplus labor that got them there.

And, reading between the lines, lots of fraudulent COVID-19 tests.

After requiring pre-flight COVID-19 tests on all incoming arrivals, Canada recently banned direct flights from India and Pakistan.

They didn’t ban people arriving from there. You can only come indirectly and your test must be done at your stopover location.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/flight-ban-india-1.5997880

China wealthy did the same thing in January 2020. European wealthy chose their private islands in March 2020, Arab wealthy returned to their high walled palaces under radar, russian wealthy moved to their secluded ranches, do you need me to go on? The theme tends to be escape from high infection rates in hope that it won't come to them. It reminds me of fear the walking dead start of season 2 when they all board the super yacht to escape the oncoming infection.

I don’t understand how the travel ban to EU was reinstated but citizens of countries like India still can travel to the USA.

This is not good.

Don't know why you're downvoted, because you're right. When people with the means to flee a country start doing so very suddenly, and without much regard for the cost, it's a signal of things going to shit, fast.

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