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