Gwyneth Paltrow Makes 'Contagion' Joke About Coronavirus While On Airplane

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“I’ve already been in this movie.”

There are certain fundamental truths of our universe. The sun rises in the east, we can always count on death and taxes, and Gwyneth Paltrow is gonna Gwyneth Paltrow.

“Paranoid? Prudent? Panicked? Placid? Pandemic? Propaganda? Paltrow’s just going to go ahead and sleep with this thing on the plane,” the actress and Goop mogul wrote in her caption. Even if both women were experiencing genuine fear about the possibility of contracting the illness, the lightness of Paltrow’s post in particular leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Branding consultant Debbie Lu, who splits her time between her hometown of Wuhan and her work in Toronto, told HuffPost Canada last month that she doesn’t understand the lack of compassion for residents of the city, where the vast majority of infections and deaths have occurred. “Wearing a mask when you are not ill and are not at high risk for developing symptoms may give a false sense of security,” the agency said. “Masks can easily become contaminated and need to be changed frequently and fitted properly for them to provide adequate protection.

 

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