Elon Musk calls US shelter-in-place orders fascist, un-American
It would be more accurate to call it authoritarian as opposed to fascist (I just learned about the distinction the other day).<p>Not sure if it&#x27;s faux pas to drop a link in a different thread than the original submission, but my thoughts on the &quot;shelter-in-place&quot; orders are captured here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ryankemper.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-04-29-the_case_for_ending_lockdown&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ryankemper.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;2020-04-29-the_case_for_endin...</a><p>A few select pieces:<p>&gt; There is an ironic parallel to the concept of cytokine storm. Just as our immune systems sometimes get overzealous and destroy the body, so too has our response to COVID-19 ironically ended up damaging the stability of our economic and socioemotional systems and made us less resilient in the face of future crises.<p>And<p>&gt; We as American citizens need to fight against this worrying trend of censorship and mass surveillance. Other countries do not even have the concept of freedom of speech&#x2F;assembly embedded into their founding documents. Thus we are in a unique position where we are fighting not just to save lives, but perhaps more importantly, to save the soul of our country.<p>--<p>Focusing on what Elon said:<p>&gt; &quot;Frankly, I would call it forcible imprisoning of people in their homes against all of, their constitutional rights, in my opinion,&quot; he said. &quot;It&#x27;s breaking people&#x27;s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why they came to America or built this country.<p>I agree with this, although I would probably soften the language around forcible imprisonment slightly.<p>Along that same vein:<p>&gt; &quot;If somebody wants to stay in their house, that&#x27;s great and they should be able to,&quot; he said. &quot;But to say they cannot leave their house and that they will be arrested if they do: that&#x27;s fascist. That is not democratic; this is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom.&quot;<p>Yup, no argument here.