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A comment on Coronavirus: Elon Musk 'child immunity' tweet will stay online. Parent comment
It's that he's not careful with language.
The point of the tweet - that family gatherings with the elderly is problematic, is probably valid.
But his wording 'children are immune' is really bad.
They are not immune. The will get Coronavirus. They just get it less often and are less likely to show symptoms and very unlikely to die from it.
So they are not 'immune', rather they are 'immune to dying from it', which is a big difference.
Elon speaks off the cuff, with sensitive things, you have to be careful about how you word stuff.
This is why we have communications people.
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It's that he's not careful with language.
The point of the tweet - that family gatherings with the elderly is problematic, is probably valid.
But his wording 'children are immune' is really bad.
They are not immune. The will get Coronavirus. They just get it less often and are less likely to show symptoms and very unlikely to die from it.
So they are not 'immune', rather they are 'immune to dying from it', which is a big difference.
Elon speaks off the cuff, with sensitive things, you have to be careful about how you word stuff.
This is why we have communications people.