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To be fair to Tesla, they are much less likely to spread the virus than some of the "essential" services that are allowed to remain open. To be fair to the cou

• gentleman11 7y ago
  To be fair to the employees, it’s nice to be able to stay safe
  • jsight 7y ago
    That's definitely true. I'm sure this calms a lot of anxiety on their part. And if there had been an outbreak, this could end up being life-saving.
    • onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
      Tesla's Fremont factory employs 10k people. I imagine they work closely together, touch a lot of the same stuff, would be at high risk of transmitting this, but I really have no idea. This would almost certainly lead to 1-10+ deaths -- his workers directly or people infected by them. It would lead to hundreds of not thousands of cases of pneumonia and permanent lung damage. It could easily cost millions of dollars to the US tax payer in Medicare and Medicaid expenses. Shutting down production at Fremont for a couple werks shouldn't do much to the underlying fundamentals of Tesla -- it could actually be a good thing. Car sales are giving every indication they'll be heavily depressed for months -- if not til the end of the year. This is a selfish play by Elan to do anything (almost literally human sacrifice) to keep his stock price high.
      • bluGill 7y ago
        Do they? I work at a factory and those doing production are in small teams (6 max, and your team is assigned for the duration of this crisis) that have it easy to never contact the next (except lunchtime and those of us with a desk are required to eat at our desks to give them more room - I'm working from home which is better yet) modern factories have most of the work done by robots, so it is easy to keep a robot between you and the next team.
        • gentleman11 7y ago
          Are there individual break rooms, or change rooms, or kitchens? No work requiring a small group?
      • jsight 7y ago
        If you've seen videos of the plant, there actually aren't that many in close contact. AFAIK, Ford has had a case with covid19 and has not had a major outbreak as a result. It could be bad, but your estimates are severely on the high end.
  • elcritch 7y ago
    Won’t they pretty much all get it eventually? The quarantine is more about reducing the rate of infection not preventing infection to reduce load on healthcare system.
    • airstrike 7y ago
      And getting it later as opposed to now falls under the definition of "safe", as cases with complications will have greater odds of being properly treated.
    • Someone1234 7y ago
      Later is still safer. They're currently testing two anti-virus drugs that look promising, three different vaccines, and there are likely to be a major shortage of ventilators.
• a3n 7y ago
  > To be fair to Tesla Why do we need to be fair to a blatant rule breaker in a health crisis?
  • jsight 7y ago
    Because we should be fair to everyone, at least to the extent practical. Isn't that obvious?
    • a3n 7y ago
      The implication it's that to be fair to Tesla, we should look the other way when they break the rules, because the structure of their gathering is somehow less harmful than other gatherings. I'm not on board with that.
• yongjik 7y ago
  > they are much less likely to spread the virus than some of the "essential" services that are allowed to remain open. That's not really relevant, because these essential services are open because they are, well, "essential", not because they are safer. A hospital is the most dangerous place to catch the virus now, but nobody suggests shutting down the hospital, because we need it right now. We don't need a new car now.
  • jsight 7y ago
    Well, we don't need an egg mcmuffin now either, but I'm pretty sure those are still allowed. My point is that the boundary of "essential" is surprisingly amorphous.
    • Someone1234 7y ago
      You're contrasting hot food with a new car that has a six week or more lead time and no shortage. There are a lot of traffic still on the road because they too are essential (e.g. delivery vehicles/drivers), they need to eat, hot food fills an essentially need. Nobody "needs" a new Tesla in a crisis.
      • perl4ever 7y ago
        Production of cars for civilians stopped in WWII. On the other hand, it was so the factories could make products for the war which doesn't seem applicable now.
        • perl4ever 7y ago
          Perhaps I spoke too soon, within hours I saw an article claiming GM was looking into whether they could divert resources to healthcare products.
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