JAKARTA – Bill Gates has criticized the controversial statements about the COVID-19 pandemic that is often made by Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk. According to Bill Gates, Elon Musk should stay focused on his area of expertise rather than spreading lies about the coronavirus or COVID-19.
This was conveyed by Gates while attending the event at CNBC “Squawk Box,”. At that time, he responded to Musk’s comments about COVID-19 on the social network Twitter, which was outrageous.
“Elon’s positioning is to maintain a high rate of outrageous comments. He doesn’t get involved much in vaccines. He makes a great electric car. And his rocket works fine. So he’s allowed to say these things. I hope he doesn’t confuse the area- areas where he is not involved too much, “said Gates, as quoted from the website Futurism, Thursday, July 30th.
Not only that, Gates also mentioned social media platforms that are always quick to spread misinformation. “When you let people communicate, you have to deal with the fact that certain flimsy things that are very exciting spread very quickly compared to the truth.”
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Gates’ comments came after billionaire Musk spoke misleadingly about COVID-19, spread falsehoods, and expressed doubts over the severity of the pandemic in the United States (US) even as cases have increased nationwide.
“There are lots of false positives for C19 (COVID-19) messing up the numbers. Even a test with a false positive rate of 5 percent (in fields, not labs) would show up as ~ 17 million cases of fake C19 even if it didn’t exist,” Musk tweeted on 30 June.
At the time that the tweet was published, 48,000 new positive COVID-19 cases were announced in the US, breaking a one-day record at the time. According to the analysis reported The New York Times, there are more than 4.3 million people who have contracted COVID-19 in the US while 148,400 have died as of July 28.
These are not the only comments Tesla and SpaceX bosses have about the US pandemic. In April, he called protective measures such as quarantines absurd.
“Frankly, I would call it the forced imprisonment of people in their homes against all, their constitutional right, in my opinion. It violates people’s freedoms in a terrible and wrong way and is not why they came to America or built this country,” Musk said.
In addition, Musk also tweeted on March 19 with a false statement that “children are inherently immune” to the coronavirus. The tweet also drew controversy.
The father of one child also praised Texas for allowing businesses to open their businesses at the end of April. Even though the country later became a red zone in cases of the corona virus.
“Bravo Texas!” he tweeted along with a link to a Texas Tribune story on April 29 about restaurants, shops and other businesses being allowed to reopen. The tweet came after Tesla had to abandon plans to bring employees back to work at the Fremont facility.
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