COVID has Schwarzenegger worried about the future
Arnold Schwarzenegger is “worried about the future” following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 74-year-old actor recently hit out at those who are “living in denial” and don’t think they need to take precautions against the coronavirus, and slammed those who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated as “schmucks”.
And now the Terminator star has expanded on his thoughts in a piece written for The Atlantic in which he said the response to the pandemic, particularly in the US, has been “selfish”.
He wrote: “Our country became great because every generation before us knew that liberty and duty go hand in hand. I am worried that many of my fellow Americans have now lost sight of that.
“When I look at the response to this pandemic, I really worry about the future of our country. We have lost more than 600,000 Americans to COVID-19. Are we really this selfish and angry?”
More than 4.3 million people have died worldwide from COVID19 since it was first discovered in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The United States has reported a world-leading 621,568 deaths as of Sunday.
More than 207 million people around the world have been confirmed to have contracted the virus.