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Sunday 3 May 2020

Musk calls the lockdown "fascist"



Tesla has applied for a licence to generate electricity in the UK, documents show.

The US company, known for its electric vehicles, also has operations in battery energy storage and solar panel and solar roof tile manufacturing...

Earlier this week he described coronavirus restrictions as "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes" and "fascist".


Musk has many middle class fans and he is right in that the lockdown is certainly totalitarian. The lockdown mood could turn very quickly but all we'll go back to is endless screeching about climate change and the environment.

It's a real swine when we have to choose between one lot of totalitarians or another. At least the lockdown lot aren't complete loons. Can't we have a policy which aims to flatten the inevitable loon curve as we emerge from lockdown? Some way of acquiring herd immunity?

2 comments:

Sam Vega said...

It's worth respectfully resisting everything Musk says. Mainly because if he takes against you he's likely to call you something like "Pedo Guy" and you might make some money.

A K Haart said...

Sam - I would but he's too interesting in the way he takes on inductrial vested interests.