Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by easytiger on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:28PM
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Counteracting hystrionics is not without value IMHO
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by pdpi on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:46AM
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Absolutely. But saying “the coronavirus panic is dumb” does no such thing. If you want to combat the panic you need to reach out to the people who are panicking and convince them to calm down. Dunno about you, but I’ve never met a person who becomes calmer by being told they’re dumb.
The audience for this tweet isn’t the people who are panicking, it’s the people who are not. Its only effect is striking the egos of people who feel they are too smart to panic about this.
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by easytiger on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:49AM
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He's not calling people dumb, but the natural cycles of media boosted self reinforcing hystrionics
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by muzani on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:17AM
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Honestly, I think the reason he does this is because it raises awareness of him, which in turn raises stock prices, application rates, media coverage, and funding for his projects.
If people want him to stop saying dumb things, they should just ignore him. Same for other Twitter-friendly people like Trump and McAfee.
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by hef19898 on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:00AM
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Very true, if you ask me. He is not alone, so. the sheer amount of Corona-related clickbait,from everyone from Musk to guys at the MIT (they are close to spaming my LinkedIn feed with "CORVID-19 will kill Supply Chain, join our webinar to learn how t save yours!"-lie content). I became gulty as well with a blog post covering steps to make supply chain recovery as easy as possible. Won't do it again. But never ever would I interpret numbers or comment on the epidemic itself.
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by SamReidHughes on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:11AM
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There isn’t even any panic. When’s the last time people panicked?
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by quickthrower2 on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:26AM
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Global share markets are going down the toilet, and there is no toilet paper to flush them down with!
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by SamReidHughes on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:40AM
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That's not panic, that's investors making a calculation.
The Italian prison riots might be... more panicky: https://www.thedailybeast.com/six-inmates-dead-scores-escape...
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by bjourne on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:49AM
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Maybe because global stock markets are dumb? :)
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by zimpenfish on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:13PM
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Having just been to the supermarket[1] across the road and seen stripped-bare aisles for pasta, rice, etc., yeah, there's some kind of panic.
[1] UK
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by chippy on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:51PM
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That is "panic buying" but its done not by panicking people. If you camp out in the supermarket you may notice that people appear as they always do, even if they are buying stuff because other people are buying stuff.
Re:Elon Musk: "The coronavirus panic is dumb"
by SamReidHughes on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:16PM
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That's preparedness. Buyers won't have to go out and get food when the pandemic hits its peak.
The panic is "dumb", sure, but panic is people reacting emotionally. Of course it's dumb. It's also understandable. Posting about how dumb it is is not constructive, it's just chest thumping about how intellectually superior you are.
Also, I'm not taking medical advice from Musk, and you shouldn't either. He's not an epidemiologist, an infectious diseases expert, or any sort of medical doctor for that matter. He's just a techie who got lucky and has the loudest megaphone in the world.