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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 21 2020, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Since Monday, Tesla has been under pressure from officials in Alameda County to shut down operations of its car factory in Fremont, California, to fight the spread of the coronavirus. On Thursday, Tesla finally announced it would halt vehicle manufacturing in Fremont.

"We have decided to temporarily suspend production at our factory in Fremont, from end of day March 23, which will allow an orderly shutdown," Tesla said in a post on its website.

March 23 is next Monday—a full week after officials in seven Bay Area counties ordered non-essential businesses to close down. To make sure there was no confusion about Tesla's status, Alameda County tweeted on Tuesday that Tesla was not an essential business.

But Tesla persisted. In recent weeks, Elon Musk has been a vocal skeptic of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. "Danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona," Musk tweeted on Monday.

Previously:
Alameda County Sheriff Pressures Tesla to Shut Down Fremont Factory


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday March 22 2020, @03:51AM (5 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday March 22 2020, @03:51AM (#974017) Journal

    The damage the government is doing by shutting down the economy exceeds the harm from Chinese coronavirus itself by several orders of magnitude. You don't slam the brakes on a ten-thousand car-long freight train and avoid a train wreck.

    There need to be extremely serious consequences for this fuck-up. China as a rising power has to be shutdown immediately. They need to get voted off the island for at least the next century or until they can get their shit together. The people at the highest levels of industry and government in the rest of the world who have done China's bidding instead of working for us need to be cleared out with prejudice.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @06:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @06:32AM (#974046)

    Wait are you saying there are 2 viruses? The CIA one and the Chinese one? I hope I get the CIA one so I get teh chance to die for my country.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 22 2020, @07:55AM (#974053)

    Oh shut the fuck up you racist piece of shit. Why don't you drown yourself and everyone like you for spreading disease to native americans and then stealing their land until all your racist bs is permanently removed the earth?

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 25 2020, @12:44PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday March 25 2020, @12:44PM (#975424) Journal

      No, you're the racist in assuming the connotation of "Chinese" harbored racist intent. It's probably because you are grossly ignorant, and a blinkered partisan.

      FYI, "Chinese" is not a racial label, "Asian" or "East Asian" are. "Chinese" connotes ethnicity, though, which does not qualify for the ham-fisted, ignorant assumption (of yours) of "racism," but would qualify for the more applicable term of "bigoted." "Chinese," however, also carries a meaning of "People who are citizens of the country called 'China'." That is what I meant when I used it.

      Now, it is cricket to criticize the actions of other countries, especially when actions or inactions of the governments of those countries have endangered the entire world (SEE: Nazi Germany). My assertion is that the communist government of China is stupid, and acted stupidly, and the rest of us are paying the price also. For that, they must be shunned with a good, long shunning.

      Go, chew, and digest. Contemplate your own racism, and your dastardly penchant for ascribing the worst possible motives to every other human, you bigot.

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  • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Sunday March 22 2020, @01:54PM

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 22 2020, @01:54PM (#974126)

    While you're not wrong, the problem is that the US completely fucked up it's response to this problem and now slamming the brakes on the economy is the only option left to provide even the hope of regaining control. The question is... Do you slam the breaks now and save millions of lives, or do you wait for the train to derail all by itself, causing orders of magnitude more damage, take even longer to recover, and the invest in the funeral industry because they're going to have a really awesome couple of quarters?

    Everything will get overwhelmingly worse very quickly. It's an expotential curve and we're not even close to the peak yet, and since people are *still* not taking the situation seriously... I dunno.

    Now is not the time to dole out punishments. We don't have that luxury. Now is the time to respond as a local, regional, national, and global community to keep the bodies from piling up.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday March 23 2020, @02:28AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday March 23 2020, @02:28AM (#974290) Journal
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