Some people will do anything to cure their cabin fever — even if that means attending illicit gatherings.that he recently attended two separate secret dinner parties with two different hosts in the affluent neighborhood of Georgetown.
He was part of a group of four at one party hosted by a movie producer, where they listened to music six feet away from each other in a garden while eating dinner prepared by the live-in chef, Ward wrote. And at a separate party hosted by a "Democrat political operative," he joined an ambassador and city councilman to dine on the lamb that a guest had brought. He said for both parties, he snuck in through the back gate and wasn't allowed to take photos or later discuss the events.
"I just had to get out of the house," the unnamed exec, who says he typically attends 200 cocktail parties annually, told Ward. "I feel like a camel in the desert in search of water. Washington is a cocktail town and social interaction is our oxygen." He's one of many people breaking shelter-in-place rules that Ward has heard about, from Palm Beach, Florida, to the UK. Ward wrote that most of the people she spoke with are middle class or affluent, but that it seems the latter are "more able and willing" to partake in this surreptitious behavior.Underground dinner parties are just one of the ways the wealthy have been trying to make their lives easier during the coronavirus pandemic.
Many have left their urban dwellings behind, escaping to smaller communities that offer them the luxury of more space and access to nature.
That's all very nice and I'm sure they'll be even making fun of the 'poor', but it will only take one unaware infected guest to get the ball rolling..
One way to accelerate demographic change.
Less wealthy people have secret parties too, you know.
Great inform