The Trouble with Tesla

[Cal]

Fairly inaccurate this bit is.
California approved Tesla to open, but an unelected county official illegally overrode. Also, all other auto companies in US are approved to resume. Only Tesla has been singled out.

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Yall need to chill out on the Elon Musk hate.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05...-newsoms-bar-for-easing-coronavirus-lockdown/
I'm from the area, though not Alameda County.
Tesla may be "singled out" in the pool of 4 or 5 major American Automakers, but saying singled out is kind of misleading.

As someone on the ground in the Bay Area, all businesses that aren't defined as essential (Restaurants, gas pumps, daily supply stores) are closed. The whole area is shut down, it's not like Tesla is forced to close and everyone else is going about business. The area saw high infection rates early on, and has responded (in my opinion reasonably) with strong measures to keep local businesses shut to limit the amount of person to person contact.

So to say Tesla has been singled out really doesn't tell the whole story. Tesla, like every other business in the area, is closed. It seems like they've marked the county as an illegal rogue, but my understanding is this decision rests with the County not with the State Government. The counties declared the lockdowns, I don't see why they wouldn't also declare the lifting of those lockdowns.

 

[Anish]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05...-newsoms-bar-for-easing-coronavirus-lockdown/
I'm from the area, though not Alameda County.
Tesla may be "singled out" in the pool of 4 or 5 major American Automakers, but saying singled out is kind of misleading.

As someone on the ground in the Bay Area, all businesses that aren't defined as essential (Restaurants, gas pumps, daily supply stores) are closed. The whole area is shut down, it's not like Tesla is forced to close and everyone else is going about business. The area saw high infection rates early on, and has responded (in my opinion reasonably) with strong measures to keep local businesses shut to limit the amount of person to person contact.

So to say Tesla has been singled out really doesn't tell the whole story. Tesla, like every other business in the area, is closed. It seems like they've marked the county as an illegal rogue, but my understanding is this decision rests with the County not with the State Government. The counties declared the lockdowns, I don't see why they wouldn't also declare the lifting of those lockdowns.

Your logic makes sense, but it seems Musk is claiming that an unelected official made the decision to keep Tesla closed, similar to everything else in that county. So...whose right?