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Fremont Tesla workers tested positive for coronavirus days after plant reopened

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something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ (and i guess it is even less than that outside of CA) just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market. Anyway, you should have seen packed restaurants' sidewalks this weekend. The life is ready to come roaring back. It is pretty clear by now that nor the inept governments, nor aliens are going to stop the virus.

Statistically the 2 cases at Tesla is an order of magnitude less than what you'd expect giving the factory size (10000) and the population size of the Alameda county (1.6M) and the infection rate there (4000).

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something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ (and i guess it is even less than that outside of CA) just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market. Anyway, you should have seen packed restaurants' sidewalks this weekend. The life is ready to come roaring back.…

perhaps you can invent a society where the work needed to live can get done without any humans doing work.

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> Musk went as far as to dare authorities to arrest him.

Is this referring to this tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259945593805221891) that said "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me." ?

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something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ (and i guess it is even less than that outside of CA) just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market. Anyway, you should have seen packed restaurants' sidewalks this weekend. The life is ready to come roaring back.…

perhaps you can invent a society where the work needed to live can get done without any humans doing work.

We're quickly approaching that. A few generations from now it'll just be the robots - and us watching.

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something wrong with our civilization when some people have to go in for the increased risk to their health for $15+ (and i guess it is even less than that outside of CA) just to feed their families while we comfortably and safely sit at home getting paid multiples of that and ride that great stock market. Anyway, you should have seen packed restaurants' sidewalks this weekend. The life is ready to come roaring back.…

perhaps you can invent a society where the work needed to live can get done without any humans doing work.

Many problems have numerous solutions.

Re: Fremont Tesla workers tested positive for coronavirus days after plant reopened

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“If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.” This is literally a local TV evening news story.

The top story a few days ago – the humming Golden Gate Bridge (by a margin of 500 upvotes) – was heavily covered in the TV news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2020-06-06

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/06/wind-baffles-on...

I remember the local Bay Area station having the best coverage of the Mountain View fatal autopilot crash, e.g. they talked to the family and found the victim had reported several problems in the area before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719736

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