{"id":29950,"date":"2020-09-30T17:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=29950"},"modified":"2020-09-30T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:46:15","slug":"even-elon-musk-and-his-family-refuse-to-take-bill-gates-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=29950","title":{"rendered":"Even Elon Musk and his family refuse to take Bill Gates’ COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Everybody dies\u2019: Musk says neither he nor his family will take Covid-19 vaccine, blasts Bill Gates as \u2018knucklehead\u2019<\/h1>\n

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Elon Musk (main image) says he won’t get vaccinated against Covid-19. \u00a9 Julian St\u00e4hle \/ dpa\/ Global Look Press, inset: \u00a9 Getty Images \/ Lal Nallath<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

RT.com<\/p>\n

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk has said that neither he nor his family will likely take future coronavirus vaccines even when they are readily available, saying the pandemic has \u201cdiminished [his] faith in humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking during a podcast interview with Kara Swisher, 49-year-old Musk stated that neither he nor his children are at risk for Covid-19 and therefore would be unlikely to need the vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a no-win situation. It has diminished my faith in humanity, this whole thing\u2026 The irrationality of people in general,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Musk\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also decried lockdowns across the globe and in the US in particular, having previously referred to them as\u00a0\u201cunethical\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cde facto house arrest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Musk said widespread lockdowns were a mistake and only at-risk people should quarantine\u00a0\u201cuntil the storm passes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When pressed about the risk to his own employees and their families, with Swisher asking what if someone dies, Musk pithily responded:\u00a0\u201cEverybody dies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been making cars this entire time and it\u2019s been great,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said of Tesla keeping its factory doors open in defiance of lockdown rules, which at one point prompted an irate response from Musk and even a lawsuit against Alameda County. He added that SpaceX has been fully operational throughout the pandemic thanks to its national security clearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this entire thing, we didn\u2019t skip a day. We had national security clearance because we were doing national security work. We sent astronauts to the space station and back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Musk also took aim at Bill Gates, highlighting that his fellow billionaire\u2019s criticisms of lockdown skeptics are unfounded and misplaced in Musk\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

\u201cGates said something about me not knowing what I was doing. It\u2019s like, hey, knucklehead, we actually make the vaccine machines for CureVac, that company you\u2019re invested in,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Musk explained, referring to the fact that Tesla manufacturers machines for CureVac. The entrepreneur also noted that he works closely with the Harvard epidemiology team which is currently working on Covid-19 antibody studies.<\/p>\n

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