Madonna called COVID-19 the 'great equalizer' while soaking in a bathtub filled with rose petals

For decades now, Madonna has been on the front lines of some of the most important social and civil movements of the modern era. The Queen of Pop and battle-tested provocateuse was talking about AIDS, fighting for a cure, and raising funds for research in the 80s and 90s when no other celebrity would. She knows what it takes to bring awareness and hope to a world mired in a global pandemic. So when she took to social media on Sunday to share a video of her thoughts on the COVID-19 global pandemic, it left quite a few people with a bad taste in their mouth.“That’s the thing about COVID-19, it doesn’t care about how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are, how smart you are, where you live, how old you are, what amazing stories you can tell, it’s the great equalizer,” she said. That in and of itself doesn’t sound so bad, but what made that statement land on the wrong side of cringeworthy for so many people was that she said it whilst soaking naked in a porcelain bathtub filled with rose petals as a pianist and harpist played in the background.