Word War Between Bill Gates, Elon Musk Continues

Both Tesla chief Elon Musk and ex-Microsoft chief Bill Gates have made huge contributions in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo Insert: Bill Gates said he was more "obsessed towards eradicating diseases here on earth rather than in space."

Gates pledged $100 million via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Musk diverted Tesla resources to source and produce ventilators, Chaitra Anand reported for Yahoo News.

Musk has often trivialized the gravity of the virus and opposed the social-isolation initiatives. He not only questioned data around COVID-19-related deaths in 2020 but also endorsed the untested malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the virus, causing Musk to be ridiculed worldwide.

In an interview with CNBC, Gates - who has been at the fore in the fight against coronavirus - slammed Musk's stand and suggested he stick to his own areas of work.

"He's not much involved in vaccines," Gates said. "He makes a great electric car. And his rockets work well. So he's allowed to say these things. I hope that he doesn't confuse areas he's not involved in too much."

In good-humored retaliation to Gates' criticism, Musk took to twitter and posted multiple tweets, including "Billy G is not my lover" and, "The rumor that Bill Gates & I are lovers is completely untrue."

During a podcast interview with The New York Times, Musk took the feud a few notches up by calling Gates a knucklehead. "Gates said something about me not knowing what I was doing," Musk said.

"It's like, 'Hey, knucklehead, we actually make the vaccine machines for CureVac, that company you're invested in.'" While Gates said Musk shouldn't comment on coronavirus, Musk quipped that Gates has no clue about electric trucks.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Gates had warned the world about Elon Musk's wealth and Bitcoin Manias. The ex-Microsoft chief, who's always been skeptical about Bitcoin, admitted he was apprehensive about the frenzy over Bitcoin, especially because the value of the cryptocurrency could be swayed by a single tweet from Musk.

"If you have less money than Elon, you should probably watch out", he said speaking on Bitcoin investments.

He also observed: "Elon has tons of money and he's very sophisticated, so I don't worry that his Bitcoin will sort of randomly go up or down."

During an interview on The Late Late Show with James Cordon, Gates - who maintains great concerns over climate change - took a dig at billionaires who were making headway into space and trying to colonize other planets. Gates said he was more "obsessed towards eradicating diseases here on earth rather than in space."

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