From private castles and islands to luxury underground bunkers with swimming pools and movie theaters, the BBC showed how the super-rich were quarantined
When the covid-19 pandemic reached countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, many wealthy people left the metropolises to spend their period of confinement in places like private islands, castles or bunkers.
In a report, the BBC explains that sales of bunkers have increased 40% since the start of the pandemic. “People are buying them not specifically for the coronavirus, but for what the coronavirus can bring. The United States is very economically vulnerable and if there is a breakdown, we will also see a breakdown in civil and social unrest, so we’ll have people going door to door trying to hurt, stealing, taking food and stuff like that. So if what my clients want to do is hide in the basement, then they don’t need to worry about what’s happening out there. They are safe inside their bunker, “explained Gary Lynch of the Rising S Company, an American company that builds bunkers.
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