Elon Musk went to battle against California authorities over whether he was allowed to reopen his Tesla plant — and won. On Pivot, karaswisher and profgalloway discuss the dangerous precedent his approach might set
Stay-at-home orders be damned. Photo: Ringo H W Chiu/AP/Shutterstock Elon Musk has not been shy about his opinion that America is taking the coronavirus too seriously. In early March, he infamously remarked on Twitter that “the coronavirus panic is dumb.” The fact that more than 85,000 Americans have died since then has hardly chastened him. Rather, he has become even bolder.
But regardless of what you think, that’s not the argument here. The argument is: Should unelected private citizens who are billionaires and have 35 million followers on Twitter — should they be shaping public-health policy? And I think it’s dangerous when they can not only shape public-health policy but — what we’ve seen in Alameda is basically a billionaire has overrun the government and he’s decided to open.
You can’t make cogent decisions and have a good argument when someone just weighs in on Twitter. My issue is allowing these people to use these platforms to sort of bully people into what they want. I think that the Tesla plan looks pretty sound. I think they should have just waited a few days, get it approved, realize the fact that regulation exists and it’s for a good reason. It’s not just to screw with you.
So deaths of despair are going up, and there is a reason to get people back to work. That is a solid argument. And we have to measure that against the health risk. And Sweden has basically said, “Okay, we’re going to ask our vulnerable population to stay home. We’re going to ask people to distance.” There’s a cartoon of everyone on spring break in Sweden, and it’s not true at all.
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