{"id":107188,"date":"2020-05-17T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-doomsday-bunker-market-is-thriving-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-05-17T02:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:13:15","slug":"the-doomsday-bunker-market-is-thriving-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/the-doomsday-bunker-market-is-thriving-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"The doomsday bunker market is thriving amid the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-doomsday-bunker-market-is-thriving-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As COVID-19 brings the real estate market to a standstill, demand for doomsday bunkers is at an all-time high (or low since the structures are underground). The shelters were once signifiers of fringe prepper communities worried about the coming apocalypse. During the pandemic, they\u2019ve become vacation homes. \u201cPeople thought we were crazy because they never believed anything like this could happen,\u201d says Vicino. \u201cNow they\u2019re seeing it. Everybody is a believer.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Survival companies are capitalizing on coronavirus fears to sell bunkers that can withstand the apocalypse. But their claims about the virus are questionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As COVID-19 brings the real estate market to a standstill, demand for doomsday bunkers is at an all-time high (or low since the structures are underground). The shelters were once signifiers of fringe prepper communities worried about the coming apocalypse. During the pandemic, they\u2019ve become vacation homes. \u201cPeople thought we were crazy because they never [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}