Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande Urge Fans to Take Coronavirus Seriously

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Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande took to social media to urge their fans to stay home and take precautions amid the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus.

โ€œI keep hearing from a surprising amount of people, statements like, โ€˜This isnโ€™t a big deal,โ€™ โ€˜Weโ€™ll be fine,โ€™ โ€˜We still have to go about our lives,โ€™ and itโ€™s really blowing my mind,โ€ Grande wrote. โ€œI understand if that is how u felt weeks ago. But please read about whatโ€™s going on. Please donโ€™t turn a blind eye.โ€

Grande reminded her followers to think about others in the health crisis, adding, โ€œIt is incredibly dangerous and selfish to take this situation that lightly. the โ€˜we will be fine because weโ€™re youngโ€™ mindset is putting people who arenโ€™t young and/or healthy in a lot of danger. you sound stupid and privileged and you need to care more about others. like now.โ€

Swift also shared her concern in an Instagram Story on Sunday (March 15, 2020) to ask her followers to โ€œtruly isolateโ€ themselves and avoid crowds.

โ€œI follow you online and I love you guys so much and need to express my concern that things arenโ€™t being taken seriously enough right now,โ€ she wrote.

โ€œIโ€™m seeing lots of get-togethers and hangs and parties still happening. This is the time to cancel plans, actually, truly isolate as much as you can, and donโ€™t assume that because you donโ€™t feel sick that you arenโ€™t possibly passing something on to someone elderly or vulnerable to this.โ€

She continued, โ€œItโ€™s a really scary time but we need to make social sacrifices right now.โ€

Taylor Swift Instagram Story

The global pandemic has affected over 169,943 people worldwide and has taken the lives of over 6,523.