{"id":24275,"date":"2020-04-30T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T23:27:41","slug":"zuckerberg-has-some-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24275","title":{"rendered":"ZUCKERBERG HAS SOME CONCERNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0warned Wednesday about moving too quickly to reopen parts of the country, saying that it could “almost guarantee future outbreaks” of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 1 million people in the U.S. and caused roughly 60,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there are massive societal costs from the current shelter in place restrictions, I worry that reopening certain places too quickly, before infection rates have been reduced to very minimal levels, will almost guarantee future outbreaks and even worse economic outcomes,\u201d Zuckerberg said during a call in which Facebook reported an 18 percent increase in first-quarter revenue,\u00a0according to The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very concerned that this health emergency and therefore the economic fallout will last longer than people are currently anticipating,” added Zuckerberg, who with his wife Priscilla Chan runs the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic effort focused on combating disease.<\/p>\n

His comments came the same day that\u00a0President Trump<\/a>\u00a0announced that the administration’s social-distancing guidelines would begin “fading out” and as some states start to lift certain restrictions on nonessential businesses. They also contrasted with Tesla CEO\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>‘s view of stay-at-home orders.<\/p>\n

During a call with investors on Wednesday, Musk\u00a0reportedly said<\/a>\u00a0that the quarantine measures were akin to “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights.” Earlier this month, Musk’s Silicon Valley-based electric car company\u00a0announced it would slash pay<\/a>\u00a0for salaried employees and furlough all hourly workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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