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Larry David urges 'idiots' to 'stay home and watch TV'

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Social distancing isn’t just about you. It’s about making sure everyone around you stays healthy, too
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ByStephen Iervolino
Video byWill Linendoll and Nidhi Singh
April 01, 2020, 5:32 PM

If you're familiar with Larry David from "Seinfeld" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm," you'll know he's been advocating social distancing even before it became potentially lifesaving amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

With that in mind, he took to social media from an easy chair to admonish "idiots" who were violating the rules that can keep everyone safe.

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"Obviously somebody put me up to this because it's generally not the kind of thing I do," David said in a video posted by the office of the California governor's official Twitter feed.

"I basically want to address the idiots out there, and you know who you are ... you're going out, I don't know what you're doing, you're socializing too close," David griped.

"You’re hurting old people like me. Well, not me, I have nothing to do with you, I’ll never see you. But other, let’s say, other old people who might be your relatives, who the hell knows?"

David, 72, said those who aren't, are missing out on, "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stay in the house, sit on the couch and watch TV. I don't know how you're passing that up. I guess you’re not that bright."

"Go home and watch TV, that's my advice to you. If you've seen my show, nothing good ever happens going out of the house, you know that," he continued. "It's just trouble out there. It's not a good place to be. Stay home and don’t see anyone."

He adds the caveat, "Unless maybe if you have a plumbing emergency. You can let the plumber in, and then, you know, wipe everything down when he leaves."

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