{"id":106254,"date":"2020-04-29T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T01:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/elon-musk-says-shelter-in-place-orders-during-covid-19-are-fascist"},"modified":"2020-04-29T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T01:46:31","slug":"elon-musk-says-shelter-in-place-orders-during-covid-19-are-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/elon-musk-says-shelter-in-place-orders-during-covid-19-are-fascist","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are \u2018fascist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aMKgWMO3fu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Rocket Scientist SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: \u201cGive people back their goddamn freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elon Musk called the shelter-in-place orders in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the US \u201cfascist\u201d actions that are stripping people of their freedom on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday. Musk\u2019s comments come after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/29\/21241180\/elon-musk-coronavirus-conspiracy-misinformation-tesla\">torrent of criticism<\/a> for remarks he made late Tuesday night on Twitter, in which the billionaire CEO echoed President Trump by writing in all caps, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1255380013488189440\">Free America Now.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rant began after Musk said, \u201cWe are a bit worried about not being able to resume production in the Bay Area, and that should be identified as a serious risk.\u201d Six Bay Area counties jointly extended the shelter-in-place orders affecting San Francisco, Fremont, and other cities through May 31st, with only <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/health\/watch-live-6-bay-area-counties-agree-to-lift-some-shelter-in-place-restrictions\/6137439\/\">some minor relaxing of restrictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Rocket Scientist SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: \u201cGive people back their goddamn freedom.\u201d Elon Musk called the shelter-in-place orders in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the US \u201cfascist\u201d actions that are stripping people of their freedom on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday. Musk\u2019s comments come after a torrent of criticism for remarks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}