Ex-NFL QB Matt Leinart Gets Blasted For Comparing Cancer To COVID-19 (TWEETS)

Matt Leinart really wishes he didn’t send out a tweet this weekend.

On Saturday, the former NFL quarterback took to Twitter and stated how people were just out and about at a beach and how okay with it he was.

He ended his statement by saying, “It’s time to start using common sense everyone,” which seems to allude to people being up in arms about states reopening and folks coming out due to the coronavirus.

Today in Manhattan Beach it felt like a normal summer day. People were out and about and I was ok with it. It’s time to start using common sense everyone!
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

Once he began replying to people who opposed him, he brought up his mom dying from cancer and appeared to compare the disease to the coronavirus.

He quickly deleted it.

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He then tried ot explain his reasoning for the tweet.

Deleted tweet that mentioned my mom because I couldn’t disrespect her and have her in that timeline with a bunch of clueless people (not all )
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

You guys are missing the point of my tweet and the fact that I even have to explain it is sad. Going to enjoy my Sunday now. 70 at the beach !
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

Obviously https://t.co/IauUBQVWRC
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

I don’t think cancer is contagious FYI
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

Sorry for your loss man. I feel you. My point is people sadly die from a lot of things but we move on right. Society moves on. I look at the fatality rate and that doesn’t justify the world stopping ? Right?
— Matt Leinart (@MattLeinartQB) May 17, 2020

Social media still had a field day with the former USC QB:

You’re the clueless one here, Matt.
— DR. KRUPALI ?? (@krupali) May 17, 2020

If you were proud of what you tweeted, you wouldn’t have deleted it. Just admit you were wrong, it’s not hard. Or you can keep digging, because that seems to be working out so well for you.
— TW (@twesq) May 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/JenMaselli/status/1262097341240061953

Sorry people are calling you out on your headassed tweet.
— Freddie Freeman Contract Watch Official Account (@Whitey_83) May 17, 2020

Stick to throwing interceptions
— Justin (@Justman32) May 17, 2020

"I'M A PISS POOR COMMUNICATOR AND IT'S YOUR FAULT. OFF TO CATCH A VIRUS. TOOTLES."
— Seth A Quimby (@TeamQuimbyNH) May 17, 2020

The fatality rate isn’t why the world is stopping, Matt.

The potential for the fatality rate to get much worse, and the fact that stopping certain parts of the world serves to prevent that, is why the world is stopping.
— Troy Miller (@OobyZoo) May 17, 2020

You're just a colossal idiot when you try to use analogies? I guess that's "better".
— Seth A Quimby (@TeamQuimbyNH) May 17, 2020

Ouch.