In the middle of a coronavirus crisis that has killed upward of 250,000 people worldwide and thrown millions of Americans out of work, some of the biggest names in Hollywood and entertainment have signed on to a statement demanding the world never go back to normal.
Because, from the tone of the statement, the world had the coronavirus coming.
More than 200 actors, actresses and academics (including Nobel Prize winners) on Wednesday published the broadside in the French newspaper Le Monde demanding that world leaders and lowly citizens take the deadly, job-killing pandemic as an opportunity to reshape human society.
To celebrities living the gilded lifestyle – men and women such as Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro and Joaquin Phoenix — the breathtaking progress of the post-World War II world has been a disaster. (Is it just a coincidence that all four of those, and many other signers, are well known for hating President Donald Trump?)
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