n data-reactid="4">In addition to claiming the lives of over 110,000 people, throwing the economy into ruin, and putting more than 30 million people out of work, the pandemic has inconvenienced the rich. Forced to abandon their Manhattan penthouses or Brooklyn Heights brownstones to weather lockdown orders in the Hamptons, the economic elite has struggled mightily with being relegated to lavish outposts without domestic workers or Botox refreshes. “Being in quarantine is like being in jail,” Ellen DeGeneres joked in early April from the living room of one of her homes, as the coronavirus was spreading in overcrowded prisons. Around the same time, Justin Timberlake, presumably facing normal parenting responsibilities for the first time, said that “24-hour parenting is just not human.” One resident of Manhattan’s tony Upper East Side observed that the pandemic had left him struggling to use a vacuum but, happily, had made it easier to get an elevator now that most of his neighbors had decamped to their second homes. Read Full Article »