this is a respectable position but let’s be clear, it’s not the argument he’s making. the argument he’s been making from the start is that it’s overhyped. When C19 first started impacting us he claimed it was nothing to worry about, the projections and experts were wrong, he compared it to the common cold expecting it to be not much more fatal (laughably wrong and also it’s not mainly a respiratory illness at all), claimed that new infections would be over by end of April, irresponsibly promoted along with fellow board member Larry Ellison the use of hydroxycloriquine etc.
frankly being optimistic about the virus is forgivable it’s the next part which is despicable. Doubling down by claiming the stats are wrong, doctors are intubating for for money, doctors are lying, politicians are robbing people of freedoms on purpose, promoting junk science etc is abhorrent. Frankly this willingness to double down and seek out more and more fringe sources to validate your ideas instead of just admitting you are wrong is deeply troubling behavior from a CEO. And you can see why he’s become this arrogant by looking at the amount of dislikes given out in the daily thread to just mild criticism of this despicable position he holds. The fanboy-ism didn’t use to be to this level 3-4 years back. He’s been a complete idiot about C19 from the start and he’s followed all the same hydroxy will fix it, doctors are lying, give us our freedom backetc memes that denialists on the right have promoted that I wonder how much of this behavior is influenced by Larry Ellison. Ellison is right wing and was apparently instrumental in getting Trump to promote the disastrous hydroxy treatment.