Elon Musk Provides Only Sane and Calm View on Coronavirus - Says You're More Likely To Die in Car Crash

Don’t worry, Elon. You’re not brave enough to call out the prez. But we are.

Henry Ford wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

If we aim for the red curve, we might be able to salvage the cross country season.

As of now .00002% of the world population has tested positive for COVID-19. And .0000007% of the world population has died from the virus.

Of course these numbers change every minute as there is a 221,000 net growth in the human world population every day.

AlohaState wrote:

I don’t mean to dismiss your fears, but if you are under 30 your have practically no chance of getting seriously ill, likely no symptoms at all. Right now only 10 people are in critical condition in the whole country. Still, It’s great we are all acting appropriately for the sake of the whole.

#1) I'm not under 30.

#2) Did you even read what I said? I literally said, "I'm trying to avoid coronavirus, not because I'm worried about dying from it. I'm trying to avoid coronavirus because I don't want to spread it to other people who are at higher risk, and also I would prefer not to spend a couple weeks being miserably sick if I can avoid it."

It's like you only read the last half of the last sentence, ignored everything else I said, and then made a completely unwarranted and wrong assumption about my age.

Corona Light wrote:

If we aim for the red curve, we might be able to salvage the cross country season.

Sorry I forgot about the cross country season. I understand that we have to prioritize.

He’s just trying to offset the impact of the crash in oil prices as it will make his cars less desirable.

Let's listen to an egomaniac billionaire who thinks he's solving climate change by enslaving south americans for lithium instead of public health experts and epidemiologists

Corona Light wrote:

Henry Ford wrote:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

If we aim for the red curve, we might be able to salvage the cross country season.

It would be wise to plan for the blue. This is likely to take 18-24 months to come under control.

I'm curious why flues seem to come from China every year? What the F are they doing? Any ideas? Are they having sex with birds?

I've also heard this is not a flu, in that you can get it more than once, unlike most flues, you get it, get better, become immune... T/F?

They think it came from pangolins. That's a type of anteater. Likely from a wet market from what I read months ago.

If we go for the blue curve we are almost guaranteeing economic collapse.

Red curve is overwhelming of the medical system. I'm going to live my life like normal. I do not have much social contact anyway.

Elon Musk is Right - I'd reckon you have your TV parked at Fox "News". Am I right? Am I right?

No, you are right... waaaaaaaay tooooo far right. And dumb as a bag of rocks too.

What are you talking about? I agree completely with the OP and I'm Bernie left. Somehow we are all of a sudden concerned about our elderly COPD/smokers when we don't give 2 cents about homelessness, poverty etc? We as a nation hate old people. Look at the amount of old shaming that goes on this website? We throw our "loved ones" in nursing homes to die so we don't have to take care of them. I don't understand the hypocrisy.

Piano_Man87 wrote:

About 3300 people die of car crashes every single day. 5600 deaths total from Covid-19.

0.0005% of the Chinese population got infected with Covid-19.

Most cases of it are mild.

Everyone needs to just relax.

Are you aware of the aggressive response in China? Your logic should only be applied to control groups, that is countries that did nothing to respond. In China, your forehead was shot with a laser/thermo when you entered any building, and you were essentially arrested if suspected infected. New cases went from 3500/day to 20/day. The reason to not panic in China is because they had an aggressive, rational, effective plan.....a plan that you would probably classify as panic.

TAA wrote:

Meh. This is a once in a decade opportunity to buy stocks cheap. Keep freaking out people. Please as much as you can.

I think it could go lower. S&P is still above December 2018 so I don’t think we’re at once in a decade opportunity yet. To me, how much the economy is slowing down and the uncertainty, it can be worse than 2008 recession. If so, there’s still ways to go. It may not be a bad idea to do dollar cost averaging for the next 2 to 3 years and be patient. If it is V-shape recovery, you missed out on about 30% gain. That’s not once in a decade opportunity so even if you buy all now, there’s too much downside risk compared to upside. Also, if you buy a lot now, the issue may be that there could be a mini surge and you feel like you don’t want to miss on the gain so you add more position, and then it could dip further down then what it is now. In 2008, that’s what happened. Where it collapsed hard, then started to have mini surge of people thinking it was good buying opportunity. However in 2009 as there’s still a lot of uncertainty. Stocks crashed down even further.

So, to me, I think it will take some time to recover and some downside risk, I’m sticking with dollar cost averaging.

Everyone’s situation and timeline to when they need the money is different so to each their own. Just don’t invest money where you may need to take it out in case the stocks tank even lower.

Nike just closed their stores until March 27th. Same as Apple. I wanted to get a Cyber Truck, but I won't anymore if their leader thinks this is just the flu. Won't do it.

Piano_Man87 wrote:

About 3300 people die of car crashes every single day. 5600 deaths total from Covid-19.

0.0005% of the Chinese population got infected with Covid-19.

Most cases of it are mild.

Everyone needs to just relax.

How many people would die from car crashes if all car crashes were ordered off the road to prevent car crashes? That’s the number that we should be basing it off.

If all cars**

Elon Musk is Right wrote:

Here is Elon Musk telling people they are way over reacting to the coronavirus and are far more likely to die in a car crash and yet you have the stupid coronavirus alarmist media slamming him.

These coronavirus alarmists are worst than zombie doomsday preppers. They just go for alarmist fad after alarmist fad. What ever happened to the alarmists about the white supremacists running US Border agencies, or the US concentration camps, or the "democracy" in Hong Kong, or global warming? All of them have been forgotten after the alarmists and sheep move on to the next fad.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179291/elon-musk-coronavirus-tesla-memo-car-accident-deaths-comparison

this virus hyperblulshit event s brought to you by the producers of 9/11, where the idiots spent trillions on stirring up trouble in the middle east, and if you believe the story line, terrorists took revenge and killed 3000 people in the twin towers, so the answer is to spend trillions more in the middle east and create out of nothing a war on terror.

where world travel and personal rights were screwed up.

today you got the super fake virus epidemic, and these international-synticate of trillionaires and i an god cultists are turning the screws yet again to make movement difficult,

they'll be taking away your right to drive, taking away your right to speak,

you will be left with a little safe zone.

or will you?

once people see that they've been had one time too many. they will recoil.

people can see a scam, though they somehow need a lot of practice.

this hyperbullshit event will wake up enough people to say enough of your hyperbluushit.

jesseriley wrote:

Don’t worry, Elon. You’re not brave enough to call out the prez. But we are.

Good grief, do I have to encounter this moronic Commie on every thread I visit? Wish the old fascist would stick to slandering that Canadian ultra runner. Well, that and worshipping at his Stalin shrine.

not saying that there isn't any over reacting, however the "more likely to die in a car accident" is the argument of a fool. Almost every legal age driver drives almost everyday. That is why car accidents are high. If there was the corona virus everyday every year, the stats would surely change on the mortality rate, and would probably surpass that of car accidents.