You cannot just say, ‘I have the right to do X, Y, and Z,’ when you affect other people. 10 interview was released online, REDCON1 announced its decision to pull out of the Arnold Classic, specifically citing his 'Screw your freedom' remark. 'I think people should know there is a virus here, it kills people,” the 74-year-old former governor said. “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.’ No, screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. Of particular concern to Arnold is how selfish many have acted over the last year and a half, and he shot down the absurd suggestion that wearing a small cloth face mask is somehow a horrific violation of personal freedom. Schwarzenegger stressed that Americans need to get vaccinated if we’re to see an end to the pandemic, which has refused to go anywhere amid the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant.

“A year and a half later, we are still in a mess and there are still people living in denial, there are still people that don’t believe in masks,' he said. Those who truly love liberty should realize that we're at a tipping point where the best way to persevere it is to fight back with accountability instead of defiance.In an interview with CNN’s Alex Vindman and Bianna Golodryga, actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called anti-maskers “schmucks.”Īrnie sat down with the two to discuss his frustration at the propagation of misinformation surrounding COVID-19 and the vaccine, and criticized people who haven’t been considerate of others throughout the pandemic. Over the past year and a half, Americans have had to sacrifice a lot of their personal freedom because of a virus that thrives on a lack of accountability.

Those who doubt that freedom without responsibility leads to authoritarianism should look no further than recent history. You cannot go and not put the mask on because when you breathe you can infect someone else, and you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die.'

You cannot say, 'No one is going to tell me that I'm going to stop here, I'm going to go right through it.' Yeah, then you kill someone else, and it is your doing. They put the traffic light in the intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else by accident. Concerning the notion that mask mandates and social distancing impede peoples’ freedoms, Schwarzenegger said: Screw your freedom because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. Arnold Schwarzenegger had a message for COVID deniers and anti-vaxxers: ‘Screw your freedom.’ Across the US, there’s been more than 36.3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 619,000 deaths and numbers rising due to the Delta variant. It's like, no different than a traffic light. 'You cannot just say, 'I have the right to do x, y, and z,' when you affect other people. The 'Terminator' star used an analogy involving stoplights that everyone can understand. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities,' he said.

When Schwarzenegger said Screw Your Freedom, he was referring to people that refuse to take the vaccine or wear masks. Arnold’s comments could have been misinterpreted by Calum and many others. '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.' No, screw your freedom. The moment Arnold said Screw your freedom, Arnold received a backlash from politicians, media and people all over the world.

Schwarzenegger screw your freedom