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2020-12-04 c
ELON MUSK IS RIGHT ABOUT THE COVID-CON, THE MEDIA ARE WRONG
“Does a crazy person ever look in the mirror and know that he’s crazy?”

Elon Musk’s Totally Awful, Batshit-Crazy, Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year

... As of late, the most idolized in America have become the ones who are now partially destroying it: the tech titans. One by one, they’ve been built up as gods among us. Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Marissa Mayer, and Jeff Bezos, to name a few, had virtual statues of them erected in digital squares, which were then systematically spray-painted, dismantled, and tossed over a bridge as their true dualities came to light. This year, it seems, it was Musk’s turn.

At the forefront of the ire against Musk was his attempt to disprove the severity of the coronavirus at the height of the pandemic by downplaying the number of deaths and railing against America’s decision to go into lockdown. This is partially, of course, due to the fact that shelter-in-place orders shuttered Musk’s Tesla factory right when it was getting into a production groove. But his puerile approach to disagreeing with the response to COVID-19, and his disregard and denigration of true experts, aligned him with Donald Trump and his alt-right supporters, making Musk a pariah to the other half of the country that once revered him. On a Tesla earnings call, Musk stoked the fires, calling the shelter-in-place orders “fascist” and “not democratic.” He told the bro-friendly Joe Rogan that the actual mortality rate from coronavirus differed from projections “by at least a factor of 10, maybe a factor of 50.” (A statement that is completely fabricated.) (read more)

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