A tech executive fleeing to his New Zealand doomsday bunker reportedly forgot how to unlock it
Gary Lynch, the general manager of Rising S Co, a Texas-based doomsday shelter provider, told the news outlet he received a call in early March from the businessman asking how to unlock his shelter, which he had never used before, as well as asking questions about the power, water heater, and air filters.
New Zealand is a hot spot for elite doomsday preppers to build underground bunkers or luxury homes on prime real estate to escape to during global crises,Plus, as Bloomberg notes, New Zealand has more recoveries from the coronavirus than active cases and only 12 reported deaths versus the US, where the death rate per capita is around 50 times higher.
"He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that's happening," Lynch told the publication about the executive who lives in New York and runs a company in the Bay Area. "And as far as I know, he's still there." For the extremely wealthy, prepping can be a reasonable investment considering the size of their income,
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