[louis_pasteur]

If having the disease spread more widely among populations and more COVID deaths translates as "benefit" to you then yes. Tesla is concerned about only profits but what's profitable for the company may not be for people.

[solveit]

You're talking about whether companies should reopen. The parent was talking about whether

> There's hundreds of thousands, probably millions of businesses that have been shuttered by COVID-19, and yet, of course, who should it be but the constant media circus that is Tesla--whose hit is miniscule compared to the restaurants, hotels and other businesses that actually can't earn revenue--that decides to publicly take it to the courts.

is a fair complaint. It's clearly not. It's basically the Starving African Children argument. Throwing bad arguments around (even to support a good cause) is not conducive to quality discussion, and your criticism (via emphasizing how good the cause is, with an attack on Tesla thrown in, neither of which is pertinent) of someone pointing this out doesn't help.

I think it's important to argue precisely on Internet forums where our discussions don't directly translate into policy decisions and this is the hill I will die on.

[techslave]

I’m not sure you understand the position we’re in. The intent of all this intervention is to flatten the curve, not to zero, but to keep hospitals at capacity. Thus spreading the disease and causing more deaths, but preventing only those deaths that would have been preventable save lack of hospital capacity.

As a swede said, not eliminating deaths just shifting them in time.

Yes, spreading the disease is a benefit to the population.

[concordDance]

I'd love to know what these plans to wipe out covid 19 are that everyone but me seems to have been informed about. I must clearly have missed some big news.

[jmichelz]

Here's a plan to wipe out covid 19 with a version that's proven to be safe. https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/05/a-solution-to-covid-19/

[matz1]

As a company it is exactly what Tesla should be concerned of. Tesla is not charity.