<p>Elon Musk wears a lot of hats. He&#8217;s a billionaire business magnate, industrial designer and engineer as the founder of SpaceX and the CEO and product architect of Tesla. Now he&#8217;s added an amateur immunologist hat to the rack.</p>
<p>Musk, 49, says he won&#8217;t be taking a vaccine for COVID-19 anytime soon, saying it&#8217;s just not for him or his family.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-elon-musk.html?referringSource=articleShare">podcast</a> by The New York Times opinion section, host Kara Swisher asked Musk whether he or his family would get a COVID-19 vaccine when one is ready.</p>
<p>&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not at risk for COVID. Nor are my kids,&#8221; the father of six said.</p>
<p>Swisher also asked Musk about lockdowns intended to stem the spread of the virus. The entrepreneur said that he opposed them because they did not &#8220;serve the greater good.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It has diminished my faith in humanity, the whole thing&#8230; the irrationality of people in general,&#8221; the South African said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Essentially, the right thing to do would be to not have done a lockdown for the whole country but to have, I think, anyone who&#8217;s at risk should be quarantined until the storm passes,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;I mean, this is a hot button issue where rationality takes a back seat. In the grand scheme of things what we have is something with a very low mortality rate and high contagion.&#8221;</p>
<p>In May, after the COVID-19 spread had peaked in the U.S. and begun to ebb, Musk defied lockdown orders in California and reopened, even though the state allowed only &#8220;essential&#8221; businesses to operate. Musk wrote on Twitter May 12: &#8220;Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk said at the time that employees who felt at risk didn&#8217;t need to come into the office. &#8220;If they have a legitimate reason to be at risk then they should stay at home,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tesla has been, apart for several weeks where we were shut down by the state, and then the overzealous Alameda County, which was a travesty, but apart from that we’ve been making cars this entire time and it’s been great,&#8221; he said on the podcast.</p>
<p>When Swisher argued that his views on COVID-19 run counter to his work to help humanity — from space exploration to electric cars, Musk said simply: &#8220;Everybody dies.&#8221;</p>
<p>Musk also said that he has been putting a lot of effort into the coronavirus pandemic, working with Harvard University&#8217;s epidemiology team.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’ve also spent quite a lot of time with the Harvard epidemiology team doing antibody studies, Tesla makes the vaccine machines for CureVac, [Microsoft founder Bill] Gates said something about me not doing … like, hey knucklehead, we actually make the vaccine machines for CureVac, the company you’re invested in,&#8221; Musk said.</p>
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