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by clouddrover 2276 days ago
In a memo to employees Musk said, "The risk of death from C19 is vastly less than the risk of death from driving your car home":

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-space...

Italy's deaths from coronavirus have already exceeded their annual deaths from car accidents:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Without the work that hospitals are doing and without the measures to limit exposure the death rate would be even higher.

Musk's perspective on COVID-19 is ignorant and frankly stupid.

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yeah but hang on... if you add to that factor that 70-90+ age brackets... how does that then add up?