![]() ![]() On Twitter, Musk predicts that there will be “probably close to zero new cases” of Covid-19 in the US by the end of April. Under pressure from local officials, Tesla agrees to halt production at its Fremont factory by 23 March – a week after the public health order. ![]() There is no indication that Tesla ever took any steps to do so, though Musk tweets about having a “long engineering discussion” with the medical device maker Medtronic on 21 March. Musk tweets that Tesla will manufacture ventilators “if there is a shortage”. The Alameda county sheriff’s office announces that Tesla is not an essential business and therefore can only maintain “minimum basic operations” under the public health order. On Twitter, Musk promotes chloroquine, an unproven treatment for Covid-19 that would become the darling of Fox News and Trump before being largely abandoned amid reports of dangerous cardiac side-effects. Musk emails his employees to say that he plans to continue working, signaling that he does not plan to shut the factory. Included in the coordinated public health order is Alameda county, home to Tesla’s only US car factory, in the city of Fremont. Six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area become the first locales in the US to order all non-essential businesses to close and require residents to shelter in place. The World Health Organization declares the coronavirus a pandemic. ![]() The coronavirus panic is dumb- Elon Musk Ma11 March ![]()
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