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| Waiheke Island is dubbed ‘the Hamptons of New Zealand’. (Pixabay pic) |
Coronavirus Survival Tips From a Doomsday Prepper
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NEW YORK: As coronavirus infections tore across the US in early March, a Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co.
He wanted to know how to open the secret door to his multimillion-dollar, 11 feet underground bunker in New Zealand.
The tech chief had never used the bunker and couldn’t remember how to unlock it, said Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based Rising S Co.
“He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra water or air filters,” Lynch said.
The businessman runs a company in the Bay Area but lives in New York, which was fast becoming the world’s coronavirus epicentre.
“He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that’s happening,” Lynch said, declining to identify the bunker owner because he keeps his client lists private.
“And as far as I know, he’s still there.”
For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in the doomsday survival plans of wealthy Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyse the world.
Isolated at the edge of the earth, more than 2,000 miles off the southern coast of Australia, New Zealand is home to about 4.9 million people, about a fifth as many as the New York metro area.
The clean, green, island nation is known for its natural beauty, laidback politicians and premier health facilities.
In recent weeks, the country has been lauded for its response to the pandemic. It enforced a four-week lockdown early, and today has more recoveries than cases.
Only 12 people have died from the disease. The US death toll stands at more than 39,000, meaning that country’s death rate per capita is about 50 times higher.
The underground global shelter network Vivos already has installed a 300-person bunker in the South Island, just north of Christchurch, said Robert Vicino, the founder of the California-based company.
He’s fielded two calls in the past week from prospective clients eager to build additional shelters on the island.
In the US, two dozen families have moved into a 5,000-person Vivos shelter in South Dakota, he said, where they’re occupying a bunker on a former military base that’s about three-quarters the size of Manhattan.
Vivos has also built an 80-person bunker in Indiana, and is developing a 1000-person shelter in Germany.
Rising S Co has planted about 10 private bunkers in New Zealand over the past several years. The average cost is US$3 million for a shelter weighing about 150 tons, but it can easily go as high as US$8 million with additional features like luxury bathrooms, game rooms, shooting ranges, gyms, theatres and surgical beds.
Some Silicon Valley denizens have already made the move to New Zealand as the pandemic has escalated.
On March 12, Mihai Dinulescu decided to pull the plug on the cryptocurrency start-up he was launching to flee to the remote country.
“My fear was it was now or never as I thought they might start closing borders,” said Dinulescu, 34.
“I had this very gripping feeling that we needed to go.”
Dinulescu packed his bags and left his furniture, television, paintings and other belongings with friends.
He bought the earliest plane ticket available and within 12 hours the Harvard University alum and his wife were on a 7am flight bound for Auckland.
In San Francisco, “the entire international section of the airport was empty – except for one flight to New Zealand,” Dinulescu said.
“In a time when pretty much all planes were running on a third occupancy, this thing was booked solid.”
Four days later, New Zealand closed its borders to foreign travellers, which could thwart some refugee travel plans.
Dinulescu said he has connected with about 10 people in New Zealand who made the jump before the shutdown, but “a lot of venture capital people I know were not afraid enough in time for the border close”, Dinulescu said.
“And now they can’t get in.”
After the shutdown was announced, however, local press reported a slight increase in private plane landings in the country.
Dinulescu is now working for Ao Air, a small start-up that’s designing an air filtration mask to rival the N95.
Its co-founder, New Zealander Dan Bowden, said he’s fielded inquiries from about a dozen hopeful employees from the US tech industry since the start of the pandemic, but that generally he’s wary of these requests.
“Some people are scared and reaching out just because they want a visa,” Bowden said.
One potential US-based investor even asked if he would be eligible for New Zealand residency if he boosted his investment in the start-up. Notably, New Zealand does offer an investor visa for about US$6 million for three years.
The current travel restrictions complement another order, passed in August 2018, banning foreigners from buying Kiwi homes, partly in response to Americans gobbling up swaths of the country’s prime real estate.
That’s been a hurdle for New Zealand luxury real estate agent Graham Wall, who said that in recent weeks he’s gotten about half a dozen calls from wealthy Americans hoping to buy up properties on the island.
“They have all said it looks like the safest place to be is New Zealand right now,” he said.
“That’s been a theory since before Covid-19.”
Over the years, the moneyed North Americans who have managed to wrangle properties there include hedge-fund pioneer Julian Robertson, Hollywood film director James Cameron and PayPal Holdings Inc co-founder Peter Thiel, who has two estates in New Zealand, one of which features views of snow-capped mountains and has a safe room.
Though not in a mansion, Dinulescu has no plans to return to the Valley until the pandemic recedes.
He is now holed up on Waiheke Island with his wife in a two-floor, three-bedroom house with ocean views for US$2,400 a month – more than a third less than what they were paying for their two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.
The couple chose Waiheke, with a population of about 9,000, for the proximity to its other elite residents.
Dubbed “the Hamptons of New Zealand”, the island is home to epic cliff-top mansions and world-class wineries.
Sir Graham Henry, former coach of the All Blacks rugby team, owns a home there, as does the packaging tycoon Graeme Hart.
“Frankly, we were billionaire hunting,” Dinulescu said.
“We wanted to figure out where all the other Silicon Valley people would be.”
So far, he said he hasn’t rubbed shoulders with any tech elite: “Everyone has been in self-isolation.”
Perrin Molloy, a local builder who has lived on the island since he was 11, described Waiheke as a “billionaire’s playground”.
Molloy is often called to do repair jobs inside mega-mansions on the island, many of which are empty almost year-round.
“These homes are designed to be a sanctuary for wealthy billionaires when they need to get away from what’s happening in the rest of the world,” he said.
On Waiheke, it’s common for builders to not know the identities of the homeowners they’re working for, Molloy said, and doomsday-related renovations are fairly routine.
One of Molloy’s colleagues helped build a US$12 million house in a private bay that had an “air tunnel” marked in the foundation plans that could easily fit four people walking shoulder-to-shoulder.
“It was quite obviously an escape tunnel in the basement,” he said.
The virus is likely only to fuel the disaster preparedness industry in New Zealand and beyond.
“Obviously the coronavirus is making people realise how vulnerable we all are, but what people are really concerned about is the aftermath,” said Vicino, the Vivos founder, who believes the wealthy fear an economic collapse or global depression could lead to uprisings against the top 1%.
“They don’t want to have to defend their homes when the gangs of looters or marauders show up.”
Sam Altman, former president of Silicon Valley start-up incubator Y Combinator and chief executive officer of OpenAI, has helped boost New Zealand’s reputation as a respite, previously telling the New Yorker that in the event of a pandemic he planned to escape there with Thiel.
However, in an interview last week he said, “It’s a very lovely place, but I don’t know anyone who has run away to New Zealand”.
Some fellow entrepreneurs have headed up to Napa Valley, but Altman says he hasn’t heard of any peers escaping internationally because of the virus.
Instead, Altman is sheltering in place in his San Francisco apartment, he said. Currently, like so many others, he’s growing his facial hair and watching Tiger King on Netflix.
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What is the truth?
Obama made an appeal to 300 US mayors: You must tell the truth!
Obama said that as the mayor, in this case, the biggest mistake is to "provide the wrong information" to the people. He appealed to the mayors: "Tell the truth, and make it clear, let the people feel your sympathy."
And the truth Obama said is the truth that Trump misled people not to wear masks! In fact, what the world wants is not this truth. The truth that the United States and the people of the world need to know is: How did the virus come from? Was it caused by Trump to harm the world?
Only by telling the truth can we really save the epidemic in the United States, otherwise the Americans will be in the dark!
Possible truth
01
The truth is that the United States is the most obsessed with biological warfare in the world today. The United States has more than 200 biochemical laboratories worldwide.
A report from the Pentagon pointed out that the cost of biological warfare is extremely low, killing 65,000 people for $ 0.29!
02
The United States will never allow other countries to sit on par with it, as long as it reaches 70% of him. Therefore, almost at this point, the United States destroyed the Soviet Union and abolished Japanese economic might.
Now it's China's turn.
War with China will not work, because China's military power is not in the same grade as those in the Middle East, and there are atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs in their possession, and Dongfeng Intercontinental Missiles are even more mightily sophisticated.
Fighting the trade war, China is the country with the most complete manufacturing system in the world, and the sanctions imposed by the United States on trade does not bear effective results.
So, the United States thought of the thing that could kill 65,000 people for $ 0.29.
03
The key to engaging in biological warfare is not to set fire to self-immolation. To deal with China's stuff, it must be tailor-made. Only the yellow races are killed, and the whites are immune.
Therefore, the American Gilead Company had smuggled more than 5,000 Chinese serum disguised as dog serum samples, and was caught and punished by China.
At this point, we have only remembered what the Japanese Minister of Finance Taro Aso said at the end of February: The new crown virus is only a disease targeting Asians. This paragraph is expression of truth.
More directly, the Governor of New York State said at an outbreak press conference: "We thought this virus only attacked the Asian immune system."
04
Because the New Corona virus was originally a virus tailor-made for Asians in the United States, so from the early stage of the outbreak of China, Trump said: Soon after, I will send a big gift to China.
What is this gift? It is an antidote.
In early February, shortly after the closure of Wuhan, American pharmaceutical companies hyped their own antidote ~ "Remdisivir" came on stage! Facing a new virus that has never been seen before, how does the United States know the antidote?
On March 2, Trump still vowed to say "The United States will produce vaccines, soon, really."
Not only do we have vaccines, but also therapies on March 3 Trump declares! Another meaning of therapy is that it can be
cured. "
On March 16, the first batch of "white mice" in the United States received vaccination. The United States is not the first country to have an epidemic outbreak. How did it conduct R & D trials and come up with antidote and vaccine at the speed of light?
Even more exciting is that this company that produces antidote and vaccine is the main contractor of the US Department of Defense's biological warfare project, and the major shareholder is the former US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.
Should n’t researching vaccines and testing antidote be the work of pharmaceutical laboratories? How could it be the ‘Biological Warfare Lab’ to study? Why does the United States know that the new corona virus vaccine is a biological warfare, rather than an epidemic infectious disease like
smallpox, cholera, and Ebola virus?
05
Time to recall to summer 2019
At that time, due to inadequate safety training and slack management, the virus laboratory in Maryland had a virus leak. This project was closed after just over a month.
But the big mistake has been made, the virus has spread out, and in the two nearby towns that were first affected, people have suffered from a strange lung disease-the white lung, which is exactly the same as the new coronary pneumonia.
It ’s hard to expose, as it ’s also a military secret. The virus must be covered, and it ’s also necessary to find someone to be a scapegoat.
As a result, the e-cigarettes that had appeared as early as 2003 suddenly became the scapegoat for the cause of white lungs. When the flu outbreak occurred, the e-cigarette hypes could finally be put down as the cause. The so-called white lungs are flu.
06
It was October 18-27, 2019. During the Wuhan Military Sports competition the US biochemical soldiers disguised as Trojan horses and mixed into Wuhan City. Wuhan was darts!
After poisoning, the United States has been waiting for good news.
When the Chinese epidemic broke out, the US Department of Commerce immediately couldn't bear the joy, and openly said:
China's epidemic will help the manufacturing industry return to the United States.
In other words, China is poisoned! Yay!
07
The United States holds the antidote, there is no fear, lest the world is not chaotic, so it expects the epidemic to be as serious as possible. When the world is in chaos, the United States will sell the world's vaccine and antidote, gain fame and fortune, and more importantly, whether it sells China or not, it depends on Trump's mood. Wow, thinking of this, the White House couldn't sleep in excitement.
More importantly, this virus is only for Asians, Caucasians are fine, Trump can sit back and relax, you see that he does not wear a mask when the epidemic is most serious.
08
The villain is all day long, and the gentleman is not too late for ten years—Chinese proverb.
Trump, the villain, has been blowing all day long since then:
No one knows the virus better than me. Our country is doing great.
You do n’t need to wear a mask, we have full control of the situation. One day the virus will disappear like a miracle.
We almost suppressed the virus from China. Now there are 15 diagnoses, and it will be zero in a few days.
The virus is a prank. I think it ’s okay to meet, it ’s very safe, you do n’t need to go to the hospital to see a doctor ........................
How you listen, Trump behaves like a general director with an antidote in his hand and a script in his heart.
09
The government calculated that it hurt Chinese life.
The result that the United States did not expect was that the Chinese government led 1.4 billion Chinese people to control the epidemic in two months, thus becoming the safest place in the world.
What the Americans did not expect was that the United States actually became The highest number of diagnoses and the most dangerous place in the world!
Not only did the manufacturing industry not return to the United States, but it also ushered in the Great Depression. People all over the world are speculating when the behemoth of the United States will fall!
God bestows immense love to China, after this battle, became more united and got a real immunization; the so-called vaccines, so-called therapies that were not effective in the ground, the United States is 'enjoying' its retribution, pale and weak Wuhan pneumonia, Chinese pneumonia,
The sickness of the yellow race has become an unfulfilled dream in the mouth of the White House and its running dogs. What a joke.
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