I have to side with Musk here.<p>I want to see what everything Tesla is doing to protect their employees and if they are following a subset of the below guidelines that I've listed. Temperature check at entrance, mask requirement, strict hand sanitization, etc. Then let Musk commercialize the process of opening up businesses.<p>Some background:<p>I followed Corona (COVID19 now) from late January very closely and read most published papers. I strongly supported the "flattening of the curve" and encouraged the lockdown and we practiced/and practice strict social distancing.
That being said, hearing countering arguments from various scientist (2013 Noble prize winner [0]). The Swedish epidemiologist [1]. That the lockdown makes no sense unless we are going to have a vaccine when we come out of the lockdown.<p>Remember, the initial lockdown was mostly argued for flattening the curve (in addition to maybe it worked in China lets follow them). If you look at the curves (flattened vs. spiked) they have near the same areas, meaning those original scientist who argued for it, never argued the lockdown was going to reduce the net infection by COVID but to slow it down to help the health care system gear up and also not get overwhelmed (lack of rooms, ventilators, etc.)<p>That being said, we can copy some smart and common sense stuff from places like Taiwan (I've spoken to people who live in Taiwan and life is almost back to normal but they just wear masks in public) that has allowed them open up and I'm hoping Tesla is learning from these practices.<p>What we have not heard from our governor (feels like many of his stuff is partially motivated by planning for a 2024 presidential run) or county officials a clear pathway to opening up.<p>Here's what I want to hear from them:<p>1 - we are distributing masks to every house.
2 - we are requiring mask in all public places or when you're passing by anyone within 1 car length (6 feet is hard to visualize)
3 - we are distributing hand sanitizers to every public facing business.
4 - we are requiring all credit card terminals to be touch-less or any customer using it, must apply hand sanitizer before and after using it.
5 - we'll start deploying IR thermometers to malls and large public facing businesses (Costco, Safeway ) and will test for temperature.
6 - Take extra measures to protect the seniors and elderly. Continue to have senior-only operation hours (at Costco, etc.) everyone working in adult care facility needs to be tested and monitored.
7- Daily PSA by local TV/radio in English, Spanish, Chinese...how to best sanitize your hands, how to best use mask and how to effectively maintaining social distancing even with mask.
8 - Ticket/fine those who are not wearing mask. Maybe the first offense is a warning if they don't have a mask and the police office will hand them a mask.<p>I've seen some of these, but not a in concrete single articulated plan of execution with timeline. Right now most policies are made with bad data. Not statical sampling of confirmed COVID (though it's changing [2]) but rather raw numbers. It's obvious the more you test the more confirmed cases you'll get. Everyday, you hear about how numbers are increasing (that might be true, but it's not really scientific) Where as statistical sampling would tell us what percentage of the population is infected and if the infection spreading or staying flat.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-sZdfLcEk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl-sZdfLcEk</a>
[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfN2JWifLCY</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXgbN6uB1I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXgbN6uB1I</a>