Such was the case with Elon Musk and the ongoing coronavirus saga Friday. Musk, perhaps annoyed that the fatal virus was stealing his spotlight, or perhaps finally coming to terms with the harsh reality that a recession could wind up finally being the straw that breaks his camel's back, just had to opine about coronavirus on Friday - and, of course, it had to stand at odds with what everything the global health community has said.

As doctors globally speak out about how healthcare systems are wildly unprepared for the coming pandemic - with Italian doctors urging the rest of the world to hunker down and the U.S. healthcare system reportedly preparing for millions of cases, the world's favorite non-doctor, non-physicist, non-engineer but-somehow-still-a-genius thought as hard as he could and forced out one of his biggest brain farts yet on Twitter on Friday, simply saying "The coronavirus panic is dumb".