“We have to come together, rather than fighting and always just saying, ‘According to my principles, this is a free country, and I’m going to have the freedom to wear no mask.’ Yeah, you have the freedom to wear no mask, but you know something? You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask because you’re supposed to protect your fellow members around you. He went on to call people who prioritize their own feelings amid the pandemic “schmucks” for not caring about people around them who might contract COVID and die. Top editors give you the stories you want. Schwarzenegger also urged Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus as COVID-19 cases surge. This is why I think we all have to work together on this.” Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for anti-mask Americans 'screw your freedom.' 'There is a virus here it kills people,' the 'Terminator' star railed in a discussion posted to YouTube. You cannot go and not put a mask on because when you breathe, you can infect someone else, and you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die. “So this is the same thing with the virus. I’m going to go right through it.’ Yeah, then you kill someone else,” he said. Arnold Schwarzenegger defended his comment telling Americans who are against masks, screw your freedom, by making an analogy to obeying traffic laws. “You cannot say, ‘No one is going to tell me that I’m going to stop here, that I have to stop at this traffic light here. Schwarzenegger said that while he doesn’t want to “villainize” anyone and really wants to encourage people to work together, he argued that ignoring public health recommendations is like ignoring traffic lights. “I just think that people ought to be reminded over and over that the experts are saying that they have to wear masks, and especially when you go indoors.” There’s still people out there that say, ‘Well, I don’t have to do social distancing and all this kind of stuff,'” the Terminator star said. There’s still people that don’t believe in masks. “There’s still people that live in denial. “And so I started putting posts out there about washing your hands regularly, wearing a mask and doing the social distancing and to follow the kind of rules that the experts put out there, and to face the fact that this is here, and this is going to grow and it’s going to expand it’s going to really affect a lot of people’s lives.”īut Schwarzenegger shared disappointment and frustration over people still being in denial and refusing to trust science a year and half after the pandemic first hit, describing the current U.S. “We were only allowed to have a limited crowd last March, that’s when I realized that we all have to now come together,” he recalled. Schwarzenegger, who encouraged trusting public health experts and scientists who have studied viruses for decades, pointed to the government’s slow approach to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in its early days last year before sharing that the reduced capacity at his own event, the Arnold Classic sports and fitness festival, in March 2020 made him think more about the importance of tackling the spread of coronavirus as a community, not just as an individual. He then compared wearing a mask to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country to the privilege of driving a car.'FUBAR' Review: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Netflix Series Is Mediocre in Very Familiar Ways You cannot just say, ‘I have the right to do x, y, and z,’ when you affect other people.” MASKING IS LIKE DRIVING He added: “Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. “I think people should know there is a virus here, it kills people and the only way we prevent it is we get vaccinated, we wear masks, we do social distancing, washing your hands all of the time, and not just to think about, ‘Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here. They have since parted ways with him following his viral video about Americans shirking mask mandates in a video interview with former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman and CNN’s Bianna Golodryga in a video interview, according to Vanity Fair. RELATED: Arnold Schwarzenegger Says You’re A Schmuck If You Don’t Wear A Mask: Screw Your Freedom Screw your freedom, Schwarzenegger declared during an interview with retired Lt. 5 The top sponsor of the competition stated: “We choose you and your rights over and above an organization led by Arnold, who isn’t aligned with American views" Credit: Getty
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