Beware The COVID-Driven Government Power Grabs And Intrusiveness
Elon Musk said no, winning back "a measure of freedom by peacefully asserting his rights. Will others follow his lead?" asks Dan Sanchez at FEE:

(Tuesday) evening, Alameda County health officials backed down in their conflict with Elon Musk, reversing their shutdown order and granting provisional approval for Tesla's Fremont, California plant to reopen.

Musk had already reopened the plant for business in defiance of the lockdown order, tweeting on Monday:

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.

Sanchez writes that Musk's decision qualified as economic civil disobedience in the deeply American tradition of Henry David Thoreau:

[Musk] is disobeying an unjust law. And he is resisting non-violently. He is not seizing government buildings. He is just asserting his right to open Tesla's private property to willing employees, and to pay them to produce cars to sell to willing buyers. And he expressly offered himself up for arrest should the government decide to invade private property and cage him for it.

It may seem sacrilegious to include an eccentric billionaire in the same tradition as such heroic figures as King and Gandhi. But I would argue that economic freedom is as worthy a cause as any. Our very lives, livelihoods, and living standards depend on production and commerce. If civil disobedience is ever justified, surely it is for the sake of providing for ourselves and our children.​

Sanches winds up with this:

A common assumption is that there are only two ways to bring about political change: ballots or bullets, voting or violence, democracy or revolution.

But, as Musk has demonstrated, there is a third way: civil disobedience. By peacefully defying a tyrannical order, Musk nullified and abolished it. As a result, Tesla employees are now free to earn a living for themselves and their families by producing cars for Tesla customers.

It's true that Musk had a better chance at succeeding than an ordinary person, owing to his celebrity, clout, and wealth. But, as I pointed out, ordinary people are successfully engaging in civil disobedience--especially against the COVID lockdown regime--every day, whether they call it that or not, and it has an impact.

And now that Musk has set a high-profile precedent for economic civil disobedience, ordinary business owners and workers may become more emboldened to peacefully stand up for their right to earn a living and to live like free people.

Now that the argument no longer seems to be staying in to avoid overwhelming healthcare facilities (in fact, they're in financial jeopardy without their bread and butter surgeries, etc.) grown adults should be allowed to make decisions about whether they will go out, stay home, open their business, or whatever.

It's very important that we don't cede power to government, in practice that becomes precedence, because once it's ceded, the power stays with government. It doesn't come back.