Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised for his comments about Covid.
The former Top Gear presenter, 61, urged the government to open up the country fully, saying we should learn to live with coronavirus and "if you die you die".
His comments were slammed on Twitter, with people calling them "flippant" and "disrespectful".
In an interview with the Radio Times, Clarkson called scientists at SAGE "communists" and said all remaining restrictions should be lifted as the pandemic could go on for years anyway.
He said: "When it started, I read up on pandemics and they tend to be four years long.
"I think the politicians should sometimes tell those communists at SAGE to get back in their box. Let's just all go through life with our fingers crossed and a smile on our face.
"I can see Boris doesn't want to open it up and shut us back down again. But if it's going to be four years… and who knows, it could be 40 years."
"Well, if it's going to be for ever, let's open it up and if you die, you die," he added.
People, including those who have lost loved ones to Covid, took to Twitter to criticise his comments.
One tweeted: "Would Clarkson have the same flippant attitude if it was one of his three kids who caught Covid and died?"
Another tweeted: "I wonder what @JeremyClarkson's face would be looking like if he gets infected, is hospitalised, attached on a ventilator and a doctor shrugs his shoulders, telling him: 'If you die, you die.'"
"What he knows about Covid you could write on the back of a postage stamp," a third wrote.
Another said: "My dad died from Covid in a nursing home that was locked down before the government made any decisions we never got to say goodbye to him."
Clarkson battled Covid just days before Christmas last year.
He woke up with a persistent dry cough and dripping with sweat and took a test after Googling his symptoms, which came back positive.
The Millionaire presenter said the experience was "quite scary" and he feared he would die alone in a plastic tent after contracting the killer virus.
Clarkson previously wrote in his The Times column : "The doctor was very clear... I'd feel under the weather for between five and 14 days and then I'd either get better or I'd have to go to hospital."
He went on: "Where, because I am 60 and fat, and because I've smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I'd probably die, on my own, in a lonely plastic tent."
