The Best and Worst Celebrity Responses to COVID-19

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    There’s something about a multimillionaire—in this case, Madonna—talking in a bathtub filled with roses about a global pandemic being a “great equalizer” that makes us wonder if we ever need celebrities on the frontlines of awareness campaigns. Madonna, who has an estimated net worth of $850 million, could’ve volunteered to cover some people’s rent or mortgages as the United States shuts down to prepare for the continuing spread of coronavirus, but instead, she offered up some saccharine nonsense that helped no one. Luckily, some celebrities are making more sense: Britney Spears appeared to call for a strike and for wealth redistribution in a regrammed Instagram post of a Mimi Zhu quote that Spears captioned with, “Communion goes beyond walls” along with three rose emojis (the official emoji of socialists). Meanwhile, Hillary Duff called out people who aren’t taking Coronavirus seriously, and JoJo wrote an entire song about it.

    Ultimately, as Dark Sky Lady and Clarkisha Kent wrote in a recent piece for Wear Your Voice, “Celebrities are also proving lately that they don’t know what the fuck to do when the world is not revolving around them and their vapid asses for once.” Here are some of the best and worst celebrity responses to COVID-19 to mull over as we all ponder the actual usefulness and cultural relevance of celebrities.