While the u.s. coronaepidemi exploding, with nearly 600,000 infected and 23,000 died, exhibiting the crisis, the extreme differences between rich and poor in the UNITED states.
How you hold out so flat, when one has no home. And how to keep two metre distance to others, when you live ten people in a site hut of 40 square meters.
Well a million americans are officially homeless. 30 million americans have no health insurance. And according to a brand new study made by Gallup, 40 percent of all americans are unable to cope with an unexpected expense of over $ 400 – well 2.700 wives.
“most of us are aware of the depressing numbers. But coronaepidemien has forced many to see the truth and the statistics in the eyes.”
so says the sociologist, Stephanie DeLuca from hospitaletsuniversitetet Johns Hopkins in an interview with the newspaper The New York Times.
And the result of the USA’s extreme social differences are evident in the corona – statistics.
Thus hit the poor and minorities so much greater than the well-off, well-educated and white americans.
In the city of Chicago is 70 percent of all coronasmittede so black. Even though the black citizens constitute only a third of the city population.
But poverty affects americans regardless of race. And while many more affluent americans are able to work from home, according to sociologist Stephanie DeLuca the weakest members of society, who are forced to expose themselves to coronafaren and thereby become ill.
“If you don’t have any savings, and you live from lønningsseddel to lønningsseddel, then you have no choice. You are forced to go to work.”
U.s. sales associates at minimum wage (about 75 dollars per hour) is, according to the newspaper the Washington Post often forced to share apartments with other mindstelønmodtagere.
In these apartments are assembled, thus potentially infected workers from shops, factories and warehouses. Often, these workers part-time workers. Therefore, you will not receive health insurance through their job – this requires the full-time appointment. And therefore hesitate many to seek medical attention, if Covid-19-the symptoms manifest themselves.
In the opposite end of the social scale seeking extremely wealthy americans take refuge under the earth, in luxury ‘doomsday-bunkers’.
“the Number of new contracts has more than doubled. People will in safety. And I can’t blame them.”
so says a representative of one of AMERICA’s largest bunker-real estate Atlas Survival Shelters to newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
And today’s corona-the bunker has very little in common with koldkrigens private shelters, which often looked like small underground prison cell.
“Our goal is that you should not feel confined in any way. Therefore, we have sunlight and beautiful views in every room,” says Mike Peters, who for more than twenty years has designed and built overlevelseskomplekser for the company Ultimate Bunker – for AMERICA’s very richest.
Many of the popular luksusbunkere found in sparsely populated states like South Dakota, Montana, Kansas, and Nebraska.
And according to The Wall Street Journal can the finest ones cost up to 100 million dollars.
