Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3...
by ggreer on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:56PM
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The only screw-up I see is his prediction that the US would conquer the spread by the end of April. All the other info is pretty accurate, especially considering how little we knew back in March. Compared to most authorities and experts, he did a pretty good job. Remember two weeks to flatten the curve? Remember when the official line was that masks don't work?[1][2][3] Remember when the WHO said that travel bans are a bad idea?[4]
Musk was calling the panic dumb at the same time as the WHO was saying, "Our greatest enemy right now is not the coronavirus itself. It’s fear, rumours and stigma."[5] If we judge him by the same standards as every major institution (media, governments, NGOs), Musk is far less deserving of criticism. And unlike those institutions, Musk never claimed to be an expert on the topic.
Musk was calling the panic dumb at the same time as the WHO was saying, "Our greatest enemy right now is not the coronavirus itself. It’s fear, rumours and stigma."[5] If we judge him by the same standards as every major institution (media, governments, NGOs), Musk is far less deserving of criticism. And unlike those institutions, Musk never claimed to be an expert on the topic.
1. https://twitter.com/WHOWPRO/status/1243171683067777024
2. https://twitter.com/UNGeneva/status/1244661916535930886
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20200312104152if_/https://twitte...
4. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1224734993966096387
5. https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233418231261646849