Claiming To Be Immune To Viruses, Elon Musk Has No Intention Of Trying The COVID-19 Vaccine

Tesla CEO Elon Musk at an event in Germany (doc. Twitter @Elonmusk)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 vaccine has been produced, many people will of course be competing to get it immediately. But not for the father of technology and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk.

In an interview with the New York Times, Musk said that he and his children would not try the COVID-19 vaccine, because according to Musk, he was already immune to the virus.

"There's no risk of getting COVID, neither are my children," Musk said as quoted by Business Insider, Tuesday, September 29.

However, there is no physical evidence that Musk and his family are immune to the virus that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States (US), in fact almost all over the world.

Musk is known to have a lot of opposition to the question of the pandemic. Earlier this year, Musk also protested the government's actions to impose a lockdown, Musk said that did not, "serve the greater good."

"Basically, the right thing to do is not put a nationwide lockdown, but I think anyone who is at risk should be quarantined until the storm is over," said Musk, who also predicted in March that there would be zero new cases of COVID-19 by the end. April.

Musk has previously mistakenly claimed that children and adolescents are not at risk of contracting COVID-19, despite evidence that young people become seriously ill and even die from the disease.

Musk also ignored data showing that most of those who contract the virus are asymptomatic. Research reveals that lockdowns have the potential to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths, and staying home may have led to tens of thousands of avoidable deaths.

The father of seven said from the start that the COVID-19 pandemic was "stupid" and "panicked." Musk is also promoting the untested malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the virus, and questioned the data surrounding coronavirus deaths.

In March, Musk said he also opposed a California stay-at-home order to help prevent the spread of the virus, describing the lockdown as "forced imprisonment" and "fascist."