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LOS ANGELES – Reality star Kim Kardashian faced a backlash Tuesday after chartering a private jet to fly her entourage to a remote tropical island for lavish 40th birthday celebrations during the Covid pandemic.
Kardashian and her “closest inner circle” spent the past week dancing, kayaking and swimming with whales on a private island where they could “pretend things were normal for just a brief moment,” he tweeted.
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The trip took celebrities, including sisters Khloe and Kourtney and half-sister Kendall Jenner, some 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers) from Los Angeles to Tahiti aboard a Boeing 777, according to E! and TMZ.
Her husband Kanye West reportedly joined the party in the middle of the week.
“Before COVID, I don’t think any of us really appreciated the simple luxury of being able to travel and be with family and friends in a safe environment,” he wrote.
But the glamorous festivities, and the Kardashian posts touting them, were immediately condemned as “disgustingly deaf” by social media users at a time when the coronavirus has killed more than 226,000 Americans and California remains under a ban on non-essential travel.
“Great, people have had to say goodbye to their loved ones on the phone as they died alone in a hospital. But a nice trip to post on social media while the world suffers. So humble and down to earth, really “@ JBomb11 tweeted, in a post that quickly garnered 11,000 likes.
“Are you so insensitive that you don’t realize that this is not what most people during the worst covid peak want to hear? People go to food banks, not private islands,” the musician posted Briton Peter Frampton.
Kardashian said her guests had been asked to self-quarantine for two weeks before departure and had undergone multiple “health screenings.”
She is not the first celebrity to face the ire of social media users for flaunting her privilege during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In March, as the United States followed much of the world in lockdown, Hollywood stars led by Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) were ridiculed for a video montage of themselves singing “Imagine” from their huge homes.
The video, intended to bring hope, was criticized for not being in touch with the lives of ordinary people.
