Arnold Schwarzenegger Donates $1 Million To Coronavirus Relief

Terminator star and ex-governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has donated $1 million to a GoFundMe marketing campaign known as Frontline Responders Fund.

Frontline Responders Fund was created to help overwhelmed medical professionals with important provides like robes, surgical masks, thermometers, and gloves that they’ll require as they battle the warfare in opposition to the quickly spreading COVID-19 coronavirus. The marketing campaign, which is aiming to lift $10 million, has already reached $3.5 million in about 24 hours.

Solely Schwarzenegger and laptop scientist Paul Graham have donated $1 million, however another main donations have are available from such well-known names as actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Oculus VR Inc. co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe.

I by no means believed in sitting on the sofa and complaining about how unhealthy issues are, I all the time believed we should always all do our half to make issues higher. This can be a easy solution to shield our actual motion heroes on the frontlines in our hospitals, and I’m proud to be a part of it. https://t.co/F7s1dh0YFz

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) March 24, 2020

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Schwarzenegger has been adamant to this point about following correct procedures within the midst of the pandemic. The 72-year-old has remained in self-isolation because the outbreak started, sometimes importing humorous however informative movies to social media in an try and persuade folks to observe the “keep house” rule. One such video noticed him sitting on the desk feeding carrots to his mini-horse and donkey whereas urging everybody to apply social distancing, whereas one other showcased him stress-free in a sizzling tub with a cigar as he pleaded for spring breakers to remain at house this 12 months.

The COVID-19 pandemic has now contaminated practically 460,000 folks globally and has led to the deaths of over 20,000. Many world leaders have locked down their international locations and enacted strict journey and social bans to assist gradual the unfold of the virus, and a few US governors have adopted with lockdowns and guidelines of their very own as an infection charges skyrocket in a number of states.

It might be many months earlier than life resumes usually once more, however within the meantime, right here’s to hoping that Arnold Schwarzenegger and different celebrities proceed entertaining us and bringing some much-needed humor to a dire state of affairs.