'Everybody dies': Elon Musk downplays COVID-19 risk, says 'won't get vaccinated'

X CEO Elon Musk has said that he and his family would t get vaccinated even if a COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available. His remarks came while speaking at recently launched New York Times’ podcast Sway. Musk, who h previously given controversial statements downplaying severity of coronavirus also said that he and his kids weren't at risk of contracting infection.

When asked about his opinion on lockdown, business magnate asserted that he was opposed to idea of lockdowns and said that y did t “serve greater good”. Supporting his claim furr, he said that inste of locking down whole nation, anyone “who is at risk” should be quarantined until storm passes. US has recorded 791,349 cases and 206,005 deaths since first case was registered earlier in January.

Musk questions COVID-19 testing

Earlier, Musk along with his bror Kimbal questioned COVID-19 testing system in US, raising concerns over “false positives” which according to him are meddling with number of cases reported. He orised that even five percent false positive rate would show up as 17 million false cases.

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Musk’s tweet came in reply to his bror who posted a graph showing deaths in US dropping despite a spike in cases. Later, Kimbal Musk also repeated Elon’s claim and claimed that he h tested positive for COVID-19 in April. However, when he got himself tested for second time, he tested negative.

In ar instance, Musk again tried to downplay threat of coronavirus pandemic by comparing disease against car crashes. Buzzfeed reported that X CEO, in a memo to his employees, said that y were far less likely to die of coronavirus than car crashes ding that he doesn’t think COVID-19 is among “top 100 health risks in United States”.

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