Elon sent this "orphan" tweet at 4:10pm EDT, Sunday:
"Berlin rocks"
Could it be Elon got report of good progress of Giga Berlin ramping up?
Elon (and many of us here) is probably still having PTSD from 2020 extended shutdown of Fremont factory. The Chinese zero covid policy and shutdown of Giga Shanghai are no doubt on his mind. In a sense, Giga Berlin to Shanghai now (2022) is as Giga Shanghai to Fremont in 2020: as Berlin is ramping up, it helps to relieve the reduced production of Shanghai.
Chinese zero covid policy:
My bro worked as a middle-level government official in a major city of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis. He's semi-retired but still works with/in the government. He told me that relaxation of the zero covid policy was "considered" before the latest surge. The surge made that a moot point. A major reason of zero covid ("动态清零" literally means "dynamically zeroing out cases") is to reduce the burden of public health resources, i.e. what we've called "flattening the curve."
So basically: China zero policy is the equivalent of mandate of masking and reduced capacities etc.
Does/will the zero covid policy work? We can say "zero covid" doesn't work with Omicron if it means "zero cases" and we can call the Chinese government idiotic and obtuse. But, "zero covid" doesn't mean zero cases - it never was. Similarly, we can ask: do/did the masking mandate and restriction measurements work?
There will be more Wuhans, more cases, and it will last longer in 2022 than in 2020. But it will be OK.
As to Tesla/$TSLA: we've got Giga Berlin online, Giga Texas in production, and MiT (made in Texas) deliveries anytime from now. Relax.
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to my post. Mind elaborating a bit? Thanks for the feedback.
