With coronavirus cases spiking around the country and projection models estimating more than 100,000 Americans will die from the disease over the next couple of months, Samuel L. Jackson has a strong suggestion for those citizens somehow still unconvinced they should aggressively engage in social distancing measures: “stay the fuck at home.”

On Tuesday's episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jackson appeared as a guest from his home theater—which Jackson had adorned with posters from some of his movies, including Die Hard With a Vengeance, Resurrecting the Champ, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Jungle Fever. After a brief interview, he read from a sequel to the children's book Go the Fuck to Sleep—one designed for the coronavirus age.

As Jackson explained, the original book's author, Adam Mansbach, reached out to him recently with a new version of his poem, which Jackson had previously read for a classic audiobook. Like Go the Fuck to Sleep, the new book mixes extreme profanity with a sing-song rhythm of a children's bedtime stories.

“Stay the fuck at home. Corona is spreading, this shit is no joke,” Jackson read. “It's no time to work or roam. The way you can fight it is simple my friends, stay the fuck at home. Now technically I’m not a doctor. But motherfuckers listen when I read a poem. So here I am, Sam Fucking Jackson, imploring you: Keep your ass at home. If you want things to get back to normal, don't panic. Just use your dome. Wash your hands, stop touching your face and stay the fuck at home.”

Jackson is but one of a number of celebrities who have been enlisted to urge people around the country to avoid going out into public places, as distancing measures are the only way to slow the spread of Covid-19 and keep the nation's hospitals from falling into further disarray as cases spike. Just this week, Larry David recorded his own public service announcement for the state of California. Like Jackson's poem, it was similarly true to the Curb Your Enthusiasm star's personality.

“Obviously, somebody put me up to this because it’s generally not the kind of thing I do. But, 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, it’s not good,” David said. “You’re hurting old people like me—well, not me. I have nothing to do with you. I’ll never see you. But, you know, other — let’s say, other old people who might be your relatives! Who the hell knows.”

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