A host of celebrities and scientists added their names to an open letter published in Le Monde. "The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis. Unlike a pandemic ... a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences," it said.
Movie and record producer David Geffen said he is self-isolating in the Caribbean on his multi-million-dollar yacht, and Madonna posted a now-deleted video of herself in a bathtub filled with rose petals calling the virus "the great equaliser."