So what’s the big deal? If the county doesn’t like it, arrest him and let a court rule on their authority.

As a Tesla investor, I support the relocation of Fremont production capacity out of California. If this speeds that up (even if it’s simply a public circus exercise), I have no complaints.

I don't see any reason for public brinkmanship to achieve this. Just seems... imprudent? Further, if his decision really does expose workers to higher risk (that was preventable), it moves the burden from the health authorities to him.

> As a Tesla investor, I support the relocation of Fremont production capacity out of California.

You've pinpointed the most important issue here. The health of your portfolio!

Not quite. I expect no value from my Tesla stock, literally zero. I only care about the rapid electrification of transportation and utility scale energy storage deployment. It’s incredibly clear how rapidly we as a species are headed towards the climate change wall, and besides Tesla (and some electric utilities), no one has the swiftness the gravity of the situation dictates. This should be the equivalent of a war time effort, but it's not, and that is insanity.

Interestingly, the coronavirus response is close to war-time level focus. The same focus should be directed towards climate gas emissions and climate change.

> the coronavirus response is close to war-time level focus.

Which is strange, because coronavirus primarily impacts the elderly and those with higher risk factors, and the death rate increase is only slightly above the death rate floor, while climate change impacts all 7 billion+ world citizens, which will be closer to 10 billion by 2100.

Do you have any idea how much money that 1 week shutdown would cost?

Alameda County may win the battle but will lose the war —as an added insult, maybe the Raiders can break thru a big ribbon that says “Tesla Nevada” on it as they enter their new arena for the first time this Fall!

No, I don't have access to Tesla's cost information. Im sure this is costing them 10s to 100s of millions in lost revenue and plenty paying for stuff that is down but still costs money to maintain.

It's not clear to me how to balance those costs against the decisions made by public health officials who are experts. I'm certainly not a "even one death is unacceptable" believer, nor do I think we should unnecessarily expose large numbers of people to risk (especially in the case of highly infectious diseases).

Assuming Tesla made wise decisions, I'm sure only a small number of people more would provably get sick due to exposure at the factory. But it's not Elon's sole decision.

Elon is a man that put a car from a company he built into space from a Space Company he built with rockets that land on their own.

I don't think balance sheets and sensibility might be the main point here, Elon can and will conquer that hill he's willing to die on.