A yr and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are two teams of individuals within the U.S.: those that take the virus severely and are prepared to do what it takes to cease it, and these whose personal selfishness and ignorance will guarantee we‘re nonetheless coping with this factor for God is aware of how lengthy. This latter group, amongst different issues, believes defending the susceptible will not be their downside, that vaccines are for suckers, that sporting a masks infringes on their private freedom, and that Tucker Carlson is aware of extra about viruses than individuals who have studied them for his or her whole skilled lives. These individuals, in a phrase, are assholes. And as we put together to enter yet one more season of COVID, those that proceed to do their half are fairly sick of this—a cohort that features such various constituents as Nancy Pelosi and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In an interview on Tuesday, Schwarzenegger advised former Nationwide Safety Council staffer Alexander Vindman and CNN’s Bianna Golodryga that he’s disgusted with (1) the coronavirus misinformation on the market and (2) the Individuals who assume their actions don’t have an effect on others. “A yr and a half later, we’re nonetheless in a mess and there are nonetheless individuals residing in denial, there are nonetheless those that don’t consider in masks, there are nonetheless individuals on the market who say, ‘Nicely, we don’t have to do social distancing,‘ and all this sort of stuff. And I simply assume that individuals ought to be reminded over and over that the specialists are saying that we’ve to put on masks, particularly once you go indoors, the specialists are saying that it’s best to nonetheless wash your arms usually, it’s best to nonetheless do social distancing, particularly now with this new comeback of the virus, which is the fourth spherical now, that we’ve to actually go and work collectively,” the Terminator turned California governor turned unlikely voice of motive mentioned. “Look, I’m an professional on how to construct a bicep…there’s nobody who is aware of extra about a bicep than I do as a result of I studied this subject for 50 years. And the identical can also be with the virus. There are individuals on the market who’re specialists that studied this yr after yr after yr…Dr. [Anthony] Fauci [has studied viruses] for his whole life, why would you not consider somebody like that?”

He added: “I feel individuals ought to know there’s a virus right here, it kills individuals. And the one manner we stop it’s we get vaccinated, we put on masks, we do social distancing, washing your arms the entire time, and not simply to take into consideration, ‘Nicely, my freedom is being type of disturbed right here.’ No, screw your freedom. As a result of with freedom comes obligations and duties. You can not simply say, ‘I’ve the suitable to do x, y, and z,’ once you have an effect on different individuals. That’s when it will get severe. It’s like, no completely different than a site visitors gentle. They put the site visitors gentle within the intersection so somebody doesn’t kill another person accidentally. You can not say, ‘Nobody goes to inform me that I’m going to cease right here, I’m going to go proper by way of it.’ Yeah, you then kill another person. It’s the identical factor with the virus. You can not go and not put the masks on as a result of once you breathe you possibly can infect another person, and you possibly can infect somebody that then will get sick and might die. So for this reason I feel all of us have to work collectively on this.… We now have to come collectively reasonably than preventing and at all times simply saying, ‘In accordance to my ideas that is a free nation and I’ve the liberty to put on no masks.’ Yeah, you could have the liberty to put on no masks, however you understand one thing? You’re a schmuck for not sporting a masks.”

Schwarzenegger has truly been railing towards COVID misinformation—which has been coming from everybody from Republican lawmakers to Fox Information to the final president—for a while. In January, after he received vaccinated, he wrote on Fb:

I feel a lot of you want to hear this. 

I at all times say it’s best to know your strengths and pay attention to the specialists. If you’d like to find out about constructing biceps, pay attention to me, as a result of I’ve spent my life learning how to get the right peak and I’ve been known as the best bodybuilder of all time. All of us have completely different specialties. 

Dr. Fauci and the entire virologists and epidemiologists and medical doctors have studied illnesses and vaccines for his or her whole lives, so I pay attention to them and I urge you to do the identical. None of us are going to study greater than them by watching a few hours of movies. It’s easy: if your own home in on fireplace, you don’t go on YouTube, you name the rattling fireplace division. You probably have a coronary heart assault, you don’t verify your Fb group, you name an ambulance. If 9 medical doctors let you know you could have most cancers and want to deal with it or you’ll die, and 1 physician says the most cancers will disappear, it’s best to at all times facet with the 9. On this case, nearly the entire actual specialists world wide are telling us the vaccine is protected and some individuals on Fb are saying it isn’t.