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Just a reminder Musk said this virus was no worse than the common cold. Musk also said the new cases would drop to 0 in April.

How many times does someone have to be wrong before we can stop accepting their input on a subject?

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So did Vox, Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN. Nobody knew much in the beginning and that's completely fine and not a hit on anyone's credibility.

Wait, I thought everyone was accusing Vox, Washington Post, New York Times, and CNN of OVER hyping the virus?

Musk is _still_ saying it.

No. Musk was saying this on March 16th:

https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fkbw1c/elon_musk...

At that time, here's CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/app-news-section/quickly-catc...

Vox:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/16/21182247/t...

Source?

> Mr. Musk has also underestimated the severity of the virus. In January, he said the coronavirus “would be no worse than the common cold.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon...

From Twitter on March 19:

> Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960?lang...

don't forget his tweet about children being "essentially immune"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240758710646878208

His Twitter account.

You can look at his twitter account as far back as early March.

Lol. Trump is up to 17000 lies on record and 40 percent of the country still accepts his word as truth. Human gullibility is limitless.

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