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To everyone saying "great, but why didn't this start months ago?" Well, sure, but the second best time to start is now.

by 1propionyl 7y ago

WalterBright 7y ago
No better time to get familiar with the "sunk cost fallacy".
- PascLeRasc 7y ago
  Eh, if you haven't heard of it by now it's not worth reading about.
blhack 7y ago
It’s getting incredibly frustrating seeing people make this tired point. Yeah, we SHOULD have started a month ago, but we didn’t, and wasting time at a press conference trying to write some gotcha story about it helps nobody.
- koheripbal 7y ago
  Politics as usual. Fault is more important to some than fixing problems.
  - ssully 7y ago
    Yeah let's fix the problems, but when this is all over I am not going to forget the people who were calling this a hoax in January and February. Time where deflection, instead of action, costed lives.
x0 7y ago
It couldn't have started months ago. If this happened mid-January, we'd have be deafened by the screeching of GM's shareholders, angrily rubbing their antennae together. The only time something like this can happen is when people have woken up to the crisis.
- deleted 7y ago
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anthony_r 7y ago
Because Elon thought that the coronavirus panic is dumb. https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/ https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/11/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-thinks-the-coronavirus-panic-is-dumb-a-million-twitter-users-liked-his-tweet https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/11/tesla-c...
- chrononaut 7y ago
  The content quoted in the "The Star" makes it seems more to me that he's calling the _panic_ dumb, not the necessities required to fight the pandemic, which he acknowledges exists in his follow-on tweets, at least the ones "The Star" quoted. I also think the "coronavirus panic" is dumb, but I'm defining the "panic" when I say this as people buying 5 years of toilet paper, and unless there's more context that's what I am also assuming he is referring to.
  - endorphone 7y ago
    Elon Musk's words- “My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself. If there is a massive redirection of medical resources out of proportion to the danger, it will result in less available care to those with critical medical needs, which does not serve the greater good.” “My best guess, for what it’s worth, based on the latest Center for Disease Control data, is that confirmed COVID-19 (this specific form of the common cold) cases will not exceed 0.1% of the US population. Moreover, I do not think when we look back on 2020, that the causes of death or serious injury will have changed much from 2017.” No, he wasn't talking about toilet paper hoarders. He was yet another overly self-absorbed person who thought that because he knows about something, ergo he knows about everything. HN is full of those types. That the "panic" response of actual professionals who are experts in this field just didn't match his imagination of how to respond to this "form of the common cold". As an aside - the MAGA brigade is out in heavy force lately. The type of comments that are being flagged is absolutely ludicrous. If you find a comment that's politically unpalatable, be sure to flag it.
    - heyoo 7y ago
JeremyNT 7y ago
This is just a PR play and an ask for government handouts. It would be / have been a lot better for the government to just, you know, order ventilators from ventilator manufacturers in advance. Barring that, they could start helping them ramp up manufacturing now.

To everyone saying "great, but why didn't this start months ago?" Well, sure, but the second best time to start is now.

WalterBright 7y ago

No better time to get familiar with the "sunk cost fallacy".

PascLeRasc 7y ago
Eh, if you haven't heard of it by now it's not worth reading about.

blhack 7y ago

It’s getting incredibly frustrating seeing people make this tired point. Yeah, we SHOULD have started a month ago, but we didn’t, and wasting time at a press conference trying to write some gotcha story about it helps nobody.

koheripbal 7y ago
Politics as usual. Fault is more important to some than fixing problems.
- ssully 7y ago
  Yeah let's fix the problems, but when this is all over I am not going to forget the people who were calling this a hoax in January and February. Time where deflection, instead of action, costed lives.

x0 7y ago

It couldn't have started months ago. If this happened mid-January, we'd have be deafened by the screeching of GM's shareholders, angrily rubbing their antennae together. The only time something like this can happen is when people have woken up to the crisis.

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anthony_r 7y ago

Because Elon thought that the coronavirus panic is dumb. https://elonmusk.today/ https://elonmusk.today/ https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/11/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-thinks-the-coronavirus-panic-is-dumb-a-million-twitter-users-liked-his-tweet https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/03/11/tesla-c...

chrononaut 7y ago
The content quoted in the "The Star" makes it seems more to me that he's calling the _panic_ dumb, not the necessities required to fight the pandemic, which he acknowledges exists in his follow-on tweets, at least the ones "The Star" quoted. I also think the "coronavirus panic" is dumb, but I'm defining the "panic" when I say this as people buying 5 years of toilet paper, and unless there's more context that's what I am also assuming he is referring to.
- endorphone 7y ago
  Elon Musk's words- “My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself. If there is a massive redirection of medical resources out of proportion to the danger, it will result in less available care to those with critical medical needs, which does not serve the greater good.” “My best guess, for what it’s worth, based on the latest Center for Disease Control data, is that confirmed COVID-19 (this specific form of the common cold) cases will not exceed 0.1% of the US population. Moreover, I do not think when we look back on 2020, that the causes of death or serious injury will have changed much from 2017.” No, he wasn't talking about toilet paper hoarders. He was yet another overly self-absorbed person who thought that because he knows about something, ergo he knows about everything. HN is full of those types. That the "panic" response of actual professionals who are experts in this field just didn't match his imagination of how to respond to this "form of the common cold". As an aside - the MAGA brigade is out in heavy force lately. The type of comments that are being flagged is absolutely ludicrous. If you find a comment that's politically unpalatable, be sure to flag it.
  - heyoo 7y ago

JeremyNT 7y ago

This is just a PR play and an ask for government handouts. It would be / have been a lot better for the government to just, you know, order ventilators from ventilator manufacturers in advance. Barring that, they could start helping them ramp up manufacturing now.