India's super-rich flee 'unimaginable horror'

[Klaralven]

As the rich and super rich scramble to escape the horrors of the Covid-19 surge in India, airline fares have soared along with the number of private jet charters to foreign nations.

According to a report in The London Times, at least eight private jets carrying India’s super wealthy landed in London ahead of the UK’s 4 am ban on travel from India.

Both the UK and Canada added India to its “red list” of pandemic-stricken countries.

As of Friday, any Britons returning from India must quarantine for 10 days in a government-approved hotel.

All non-British or non-Irish citizens will be banned entirely from entering the country if they have been in India in the previous 10 days.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/04/indias-super-rich-flee-unimaginable-horror-in-private-jets/

[cinematicdiversions]

1. Honest to God India is entering World War Z territory. Nt

[Initech]

5. Seriously it's like watching a zombie movie coming to life.

And I thank every god in the book that Trump wasn't reelected, otherwise we would be right there with them.

[Rustyeye77]

2. India has become a COVID horror show.

I really can’t blame the wealthy for self preservation .

[JI7]

8. The wealthy are one of those at fault along with the ignorant religious masses

[EX500rider]

12. "The wealthy are one of those at fault"

Really, all of them? Even the non-political ones in the tech field who stuck it rich?

[keithbvadu2]

3. During the Middle Ages plague in Europe, the rich also left town.

During the Middle Ages plague in Europe, the rich also left town.

[Liberal In Texas]

6. You can say that agian.

You can say that agian.

[keithbvadu2]

7. The rich during the Black Plague

The rich during the Black Plague

https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/how-rich-reacted-bubonic-plague-similar


In this opening section, Boccaccio describes the rich secluding themselves at home, where they enjoy quality wines and provisions, music and other entertainment. The very wealthiest – whom Boccaccio describes as “ruthless” – deserted their neighborhoods altogether, retreating to comfortable estates in the countryside, “as though the plague was meant to harry only those remaining within their city walls.”
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Servants dutifully attended to the sick in wealthy households, often succumbing to the illness themselves. Many, unable to leave Florence and convinced of their imminent death, decided to simply drink and party away their final days in nihilistic reveries,,…

(They did not seem to be very dedicated to the protection/preservation of their masters’ property.) Would you?

[keithbvadu2]

9. The end?

[Arazi]

10. Jfc, right? So fucking annoying...

[malaise]

4. An Indian neighbor told me earlier tonight that flights to India

have to land in Delhi - the COVID epicenter. He wanted to head home to see his family but is more afraid of the 24 hour train ride to his town. He's received both doses of teh vaccine because he is a medical doctor.

[jalan48]

11. A precursor for what will happen when climate change really kicks in.

[roamer65]

14. Just wait until millions try to go north.

The United States and Canada, Europe and Siberia.

[Talitha]

13. The sudden rise in infections -

I'd read/heard somewhere that there was a multi-day religious event, and the infections spiked afterwards.

[orleans]

15. it's maddening and heartbreaking nt

[dalton99a]

16. Kick