You're exactly right...had Trump not fired our international pandemic response team this thing might have been stopped in China and never hit America. The very response team that Trump fired had previously stopped ebola in Africa and kept it from hitting the United States.
As an ICU nurse for over 30 years, I have never witnessed so many patients dying in a day, 4 in the morning shift and 4 in the night shift. And from an unknown disease that we have never seen before. Hospitals have to have new treatment protocols almost everyday. Looking back, I don’t know how we all kept our sanity while trying to save our patients from a monster and protect our family and ourselves from falling ill. I’ve always felt that a COVID Commission should be formed because of the lives lost and the PTSD that the healthcare workers are going through right now. We can all look back and say we all overreacted but then again hindsight is always 20/20. I would rather not have had all the accolades that “Nurses are Heroes” than have had to face the tragedy of the COVID pandemic in my lifetime.
Closing the Beaches was the most stoopid. California cops even arrested single people who violated the closure and were on the beach with no other people around. Walmart 24 hour stores reduced their hours, forcing people to shop in crowded stores during the day instead of offering the option to shop at 3 AM with only three dozen other customers in the entire store. Even worse Walmart got rid of the overnight stocking crews and forced them to work during the day when the stores were crammed with people, subjecting employees to contact with thousands of people every hour. Both ideas the exact OPPOSITE of good sense. Of course, the big-box retailers were allowed to stay open with very few restrictions while all the small businesses who only got 30 customers per hour were forced to close. That only sent thousands more people to the big-box stores every hour.
When was the last time you went to a beach in CA that wasn't packed with people? Funny how cause and effect works, huh? Close the beach so it looks empty and the yahoos start thinking... It rarely turns out well.
@@meowy4720 I'm saying that you don't get to point at a closed beach and say "there's nobody here" as evidence that the government is overreacting by issuing citations to the 5 people who can't read. Of course nobody is there. The beaches (and most other public places and venues) are closed. Cause -> Effect.
And Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense in 2019 and 2020, sitting over there on the sidelines having to laugh away as he knows he was a part of all of this, too. How great!!!
I'm not sure how Esper can be blamed for the slow response to Covid-19. It's not like he was in charge of using the Defense Production Act. He was Secretary of Defense for 15 months. Trump fired him in November 2020 right after the election.
How do you blame Esper for the slow response to Covid-19? He was Secretary of Defense for only 15 months, and not in charge of activating the Defense Production Act. That's the president's responsibility, and Trump fired him right after the 2020 election.
@@TunesGS57no one should blame Esper for covid specifically, you should blame Esper for not speaking up after he was fired but waited 2 years to speak up in his book, strength in courage at Barnes and Noble now!😮😅😊
1.8 million people died from COVID-19. I was working in NYC. The epicenter of Covid. This was BAD! Rather have a government overreact to save lives than the contrary. This rant from Bill has become old and tired.
@@DougBurgum4VP Check out the Excess Deaths measure. It strongly suggests that the number of covid deaths was actually significantly more than reported.
those numbers have long been debunked. they counted motorcycle deaths as covid deaths. and people seriously never learn that when you sacrifice freedom for security you lose both. the pro overreaction people are the bad guys. history is not being well to them
You know Bill, you talk about people being a bit over exaggerated on some issues, but we weren’t asked to wash our hands every five minutes. Some of the steps might have been extreme, yes, but many of them were just common sense when it comes to disease control, or cleanliness. You forgot how your celebrity has put you into a realm separate from the everyday common man. There is room for you to grow up a little bit more!
That's how television has worked, in every year of it's existence. There is literally a sign that lights up, telling them to do it. You have never watched a comedy show on TV, your entire life, that didn't have that.
@@Tijuanabill Yeah except none of these jokes are actually funny. Making fun of COVID? So hilarious that over 1 million people died because of pure incompetence and right wing propaganda! 😐And you can tell because the audience SOUNDS forced when they applaud. Not to mention Maher has been known to lose his mind because the audience doesn't give him a standing ovation for every little quip he makes!!!
I don't get mocking handwashing. You don't have to do it every 5 minutes but if you're out in public, don't touch your face, and wash your hands as soon as you get home. You'll cut way down on your colds and chest infections. If you combine that with wearing a mask in indoor public spaces you won't get colds ever. I know because this is what I do. Maybe Bill just doesn't mind having a lot of colds.
Sure, handwashing is great for general sanitation. Didn't do shit for preventing the spread covid which was the entire point of the bit. Did you not bother listening?
Colds are annoying, but meausures like washing hands also reduces the chances of getting flu, which can be deadly. Getting flu vaccinations every year is another obvious precaution, but as much as I agree with Bill about many things, he tends to be an anti-vaxxer.
@@nojustno3331 Handwashing was encouraged at the time from a lack of knowledge about the effect it would have on COVID, but it has health benefits, and no drawbacks. Bill shouldn't have mentioned it, because it make his fans less likely to do it.
It's called a strawman argument -- represent your opponent's position as an exaggerated and absurd version of the authentic one, so that it is easy to dismiss or burn down.
Wait...what ? Bill spent 9 minutes trashing the entire covid ordeal as an overblown event, then at the end Bill 'craps' on Trump for disregarding it ? It seems like they both have the same opinion in common. LOL
Bill, easy to laugh now, you survived and so did I. We closed the schools and I (a high school teacher in a poor community with many, many multigenerational households where grandparents or great aunts take care of the kids because parents both work two or more jobs) still had 4 students lose 7 family members - and those are just who I happened to learn about - for all I know there were 10 times as many, because people didn't talk about it. We don't know how bad the pandemic would have been if we didn't close the schools, wear masks, etc., but the countries that took serious actions did far better than did we. Consider Vietnam, with a death rate about 1/7th that of the U.S. The people who died AREN'T HERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. So no big deal, right? No. In 2022 the World Health Organization estimated 14.9 million people had died of Covid worldwide. That is roughly 1 out of every 500 people in the world. In the US we've had over a million deaths from Covid - roughly 1 out of every 340 residents. By comparison, auto accidents kill 40,000 US residents per year, or 1 out of 8500 residents. So Covid killed as many people in about 2 years as car accidents kill in 25 years.
Thank you, teacherguy❤ I'm a school psychologist, and remember so many students losing loved ones. It was heartbreaking. And thanks for the stats to put it into perspective for the mathematically-challenged.
I am from South Africa, I remember fighting for my life during covid. I had the privilege of being in a private hospital. There were many people close to me that lost their lives.
Vietnam has 1/4th the population of the U.S so by default will have 1/4th as many deaths.. Americans are diabetic and obese which explains the rest. U.S. states on opposite ends of policy yielded similar results as well so... Yeah. Go get your 11th stinger though hopefully be afraid enough to get a 12th too.
Hey, those kids needed a break from the social anxiety of being stuck in class with their peers. It was a wake up call to all those parents who up until that point didn't realize how hard it was to be a teacher, especially when some 5% of those shit bags were the source of 95% of the teacher's time and frustration. Now it seems they have forgotten with student misbehavior back in full force, unchecked. Talk about short attention spans...
Do they give a prize to the audience member who cackles loudest and quickest after every line? If sycophancy ever becomes an Olympic sport, there'll be medals abound in that crowd 😂
Thanks Bill. I paid no attention to the man behind the curtain, I was outside all the time cycling, playing golf and just breathing deeply because it is good for me.
@@eddiejeanbrown9474 The system broke down to preserve the reputations of people like Fauci. We have privatized so many of the functions of government that building safe aircraft is difficult for us.
As an Australian I can't comprehend how the United States could even entertain the idea of reelection, for a man who responded to the trauma of nurses seeing containers of dead bodies, by handing out free pens.
@@dancepigloverCause it’s an ego thing and a News Media thing. They’re bombarded 24/7 by “owning the libs” and “the libs wanna destroy your country.” If we didn’t have FOX and OAN and CNN and MSNBC. People wouldn’t know what to think. The news literally brainwashes people as to what to think. Without the heavy bias of the news and just information we’d be wayyy better off. If all those News stations told their followers to support and show understanding to each side and to love the other side people would do it, cause people are sheep. I 100% blame the news media for sowing division in this country and destroying it. Each side should have to do 2 hours daily about the positive things the other side brings to the table. The news is the programming in this country. Also Trump and his division of the country is a yuge part of that too
Odd to me that "We ate in parking lots" is listed as one of the "stupid" things we did. Taking stuff outdoors and letting life continue was about the only smart thing we did! Santa Barbara was a model city for that, closing down State street to cars so all the restaurants could serve people outdoors - festive and safe. Astoundingly hospitals in sunny California did not utilize their parking lots as waiting rooms and had everybody crowded together indoors - covid folks and broken legs alike. Talk about stupid. The idiocy was in the extremes - crowd everybody together indoors at hospitals, but close down beaches. So damn dumb.
It would’ve been better to eat indoors like normal people at the shelter the old and sick. Young and healthy people like me could’ve went to restaurants gotten Covid been perfectly fine in a weeks time. I think he’s putting out the overreaction was on necessary for the very very vast majority. Unless you were old or unhealthy.
It's all idiotic when you realize it's just Bill Maher doing another victory lap on one time he was right. He's been trying to own the minority of people who did stupid stuff (washed the mail) or elected stupid people who fenced off playgrounds since the pandemic. Bill's an egotist. The best way to get on his good side aside from clapping and woo'ing like the audience is to be a panelist and laugh at his jokes or bring up COVID/the vaccine.
Bill, don’t you remember in March 2020 we didn’t know anything about COVID-19. I remember that month because it just so happens to be when I was born and two days before my birthday on March 15. My company laid everyone off for the next three months. It didn’t just happen at my job. It happened all across the United States and globally. Major industrialized nation said this is going to be terrible. If you don’t have an essential job you are now being told to stay home. We joke about COVID-19. Some people even say it wasn’t that serious by the end of 2020 1.8 million people died from COVID-19. Back then we didn’t know what to do. We didn’t even have a testing for COVID-19 in March 20 20 the CDC honestly didn’t know how to approach the disease we didn’t even know what it was. We had just started trying to use brand new RNA technology to synthesize a vaccine. a vaccine that would’ve normally taken us a decade or more to develop. We did it in less than 10 months just so happened brand new technology had just fallen into our lap. Sidenote, RNA vaccination technology that’s probably how we will cure cancer. No that is likely we will cure cancer. People often forget we didn’t know what we were dealing with even today we still don’t understand the severity of the situation. People forget we experienced heavy supply side inflation because of COVID-19. In a global economy, we had people all across the globe not working some of them sick many of them quarantining, and that stuff we wanted stuff we needed. We could not get. We wanted chips we couldn’t get them. I remember working in the auto industry and our assembly client not being able to get computer chips to build parts. We about it now some of us don’t even understand how close we came to going over the edge. If that virus had been just a little bit more deadly just a smidge could’ve been worse worse. We are very lucky to come away as unscathed as we did, even though we lost millions of people, even though we still haven’t recovered economically speaking. Even though some people still don’t understand the government had to spend money remember people were laid off. What were you going to do? Tell them to eat dirt. You had to give them money to spend. Remember those words when you’re laughing, I don’t think this is a situation to necessarily joke about especially since so few people actually understand the dynamics of it.
100%. I’m also talking this commentary a bit less as comical because Bill is known to be an anti-vaxxer, and while he was right that people who are obsess are at far higher risk of Covid than others, people like me, who were in their 40s then, but immune suppressed because we had been through some random but terminal disease that required a bone marrow transplant, or anyone who was immune suppressed because of autoimmune conditions badly needed to take whatever precautions we could until we knew more. Today, I still wear a mask when I go into a shop that is smaller and has less airflow. I still get vaccinated every 6 months, and thankfully, I’ve still never had Covid. But I’m very lucky, and at least 8 members of a 400 person patient community I belong to online with people who wert through what I went to, died; and many more still suffer from long Covid. There’s nothing funny about any of this. But yes, we are far better off now than we were 4 years ago. No big surprise.
also easy to mock during the fact. i lived in sweden at the time where we had no masks or lockdowns. the swedes thought the world went batshit crazy and they were right.
@@CaneFu and? laying low was key and ever Walmart was delivering your groceries, if ya set it up ... god damn - letmeguess you got PTSD from a grocery shopping jones ... fuk
After the fact is when you analyze what you did right. what you did wrong, and how to do better next time. Since it is a political weakness for the incumbent president no such action has happened or will happen.
Grandma and grandpa weren’t in school, they were at the grocery stores, Home Depot and Walmart. Apparently Covid stayed away from those establishments but it ran rampant in empty schools.
I'm not even so sure how bad for the kids it really was. I think whatever research has been done on that is questionable and there are many aspects of school that currently exist which can be just as harmful for kids and minors.
@@svscared If staying home during Covid was so bad for school kids, then why are so many parents allowed to home-school their children in general? Esp. since the regular school kids had remote classes with instructors, while many home-schooled kids have parents with few qualifications teaching them.
The people who died "from" covid, in the U.S., had an average of 3.8 underlying morbidity issues. Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, to name a few. If you had covid as well at the time of your death, it was classified as covid related. Hospitals were paid for every covid linked death.
@@flyballhdeg9775 You just described 75% of Americans .... We are an obese nation with terrible dietary and drinking habits which leads to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension
I'm feed up with the "didn't need to close the schools" arguments. Children didn't live in a vacuum. They interacted with older people at home, their grand-parents for example. having 30 kids packed in an unventilated classroom and then sending them home is not wise as most of them were asymptomatic and big vectors of the disease. From NIH: "Although younger children had lower viral loads than teens and adults, they were most likely to transmit COVID-19 in their household."
Schools could have been opened much more, if adults could have wrapped their heads around the fact that clamoring to keep the bars and every other social gathering area open repeatedly put their hospitals on the edge of collapse. Half the country decided it was all a hoax though.
The first vaccine came out 12/2020 and was widely available to vulnerable/elderly over those next couple months, but schools remained closed for the rest of the calendar year. People ended up getting nearly as sick from losing generalized immunity from losing those 4-6 extra months. We should’ve left it up to individual teachers and provided extended pay for those who were willing to come in for the students that didn’t live in immunocompromised households. It would’ve helped rebuild general immunity in people in phases and probably prevented a lot of the flare ups we saw when we dropped the kids in the classroom all at once in the next school year happened.
Mega: Are you insane? Dr. Faucci was the reason why we had Covid to begin with. Instead of shutting down gain-of-function research he instead moved it to China, which then leaked from the Wuhan lab. Faucci then lied about everything from how it was released to two-weeks to flatten the curve. Dr. Death should be on trial for crimes against humanity, you ignorant fool.
I'm not sure if I can agree with Bill here. As a person living in a third-world country, I can still remember how much our people suffered in the pandemic. Patients were literally falling off their beds dead and the 'natural immunity' you mentioned about, that simply became a joke at one point. And our healthcare system, despite it's flaws, managed to handle the crisis in the first few months of the pandemic atleast. Many people were praying so hard to get a shot of vaccine, and when it came out, our people were partying like it was Independence Day, despite the fact that a jab did not guarantee complete immunity and precautions had to be taken You know, you can cry and complain about the precautions that we had to take for the first few months, but I say from experience, had I not followed them, I'd have been in an overloaded freezer, and my family or friends would not have even got the chance to see my burial. That being said, I still agree with Bill on many things, but this? NO.
Gotta say, a basic concept of immunology seeming laughable to those in a 3rd world country is just...hilarious. Like a bunch of tribesman wondering why all their dicks itch and then throwing away all the condoms sent to them by missionaries from civilization.
@@Mark_Jacobson81 belief is not required here. This is not a church. You can find it out which nations fared best on the account of getting the vaccine.
Easy to be glib, snarky and mean when you're not responsible for responding to a worldwide health emergency and you have no information about it. I had a good friend die early in the pandemic and I can't describe the shock, sadness and fear of that time. Bill has been the worst kind of Monday morning quarter back imaginable. He just sounds like a jerk now on this topic. I wish he'd just shut up about it.
Shut up generally would be preferred in my hood tbh - never found him too funny, material always seems to come from a place of arrogance more than wit. What do I know I've never looked like him or missed a cycle of growth
Bill is perfect on illuminating that our 'experts' and politicians did NOT respect or follow the data. Move beyond your political comments & emotions. @@wobblyashes9102
To be fair, he's addressing the response to the pandemic on a high, political and societal level. Find me ONE SINGLE word he issues in criticism of the local nurses and healthcare providers simply doing their best to cope. The closest you can get is he said we as a society were banging pots and pans in SUPPORT of nurses. He's criticizing the government. Not the medical industry.
I just watched a video clip where a guest who was asked to be on his show was told …”no….I won’t refrain from my weed smoking ..that’s a deal breaker “. Wow…really Bill? A guy was just trying to stay drug free and sober ? And you say ..”no..I have to smoke weed the entire time I interview you “
That's OK -- only one group of people would "dare to trespass" on his lawn...and they would be the LAST group he would want to see in his entire NEIGHBORHOOD.
I remember the cold storage units outside the hospitals when the morgues filled up. That's my memory of 2020. Bill's being a bit dismissive about how we were supposed to take or handle something like that considering it had never happened in his lifetime.
My GF works at Cornell as an ICU nurse. In march of 2020, her entire pediatric unit was sent to another hospital. Every available unit in the hospital, the OR, and waiting rooms were converted to adult covid ICUs. The patient load doubled or quadrupled per nurse. There literally wasn't enough nursing staff to handle the incoming covid patient load, which is why travel nurses were called in from everywhere (often getting paid double). All of this is completely unheard of in modern medicine. After 30 days of no elective surgeries (a major source of revenue for hospitals), paying travel nurses double rates, and putting nurses in hotels every night so as not to infect their loved ones, the entire NYC hospital system was reaching a breaking point. If lockdowns were not implemented, the system would have imploded. Everything about this situation was completely unprecedented.
Funny how Bill didn't mention the 1,000,000 Americans who died. I got tired of his Covid whining pretty quick. He was at it on one show with Bari ("I'm done with Covid") Weiss and saying "Covid is over," when it wasn't. The Omicron variant hit afterward. I never saw him admit he was wrong.
FYI...COVID took my sister, my ex-wife's 2 sisters, my step daughter, my neighbor, and almost killed me, despite all of us living in separate houses and not seeing each other during the pandemic. In my experience, not enough precautions were taken during the pandemic.
Nope - not enough precautions were taken at the start of the pandemic, which he went over. Then it switched from the government spreading the disease to the government using it as an excuse for repression. The US, along with the UK, Italy and Spain got the worst of both worlds.
Ah yes COVID-19, something Bill appears to have forgotten he rode out safe and largely unaffected, making his show from the courtyard garden of his mansion.
He masks his ignorance as comedy. Masking was necessary, natural immunity still requires a shot, washing hands was not a bad thing. He's not a virologist and shouldn't pretend he is.
Right…to protect his audiences staff and himself! Somehow that offends you? I’m sure you continued going to family reunions and to the movies and then couldn’t figure out how you caught COVID! Then like every other day of your life you woke up offended!
@@brentmason6782 The fact that Bill Maher, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to remember how little he suffered during COVID-19 compared to others doesn't offend me in the slightest. He's Bill Maher, the man's default mode is smug, rich, stoned and out of touch. It's his terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and and condescending way of speaking at people who are still doing it tough under biden I take issue with.
BiLL won't stop his, I was right about covid, crap. How many shows & podcasts will Maher squeeze that BiT in? 🤔 🤪 *Cheers 🍻 from **#CancúnMéxico* 🍹🤘🏽💙🇲🇽
I'm so sick of these idiots who look back with perfect knowledge but never seem to point out we had no treatment for the disease at this time and that thousands upon thousands were dying every fucking week. Yeah we made mistakes people should admit it, people should also admit we have no idea whether those efforts would have worked because half the country didn't bother to follow them.
I lost 3 relatives to Covid, one in April 2020 (cousin), another the day before the election in 2020 (Father-in-law) and a 3rd (unvaccinated) in December 2021 a couple of days after Christmas (Aunt) ..... Then my brother refused to get vaccinated and caught Covid, foolishly believed he was now immune and got it again 9 months later ..... Like the flu you are only immune to the strain you catch but not immune to the mutations
And I’m sick and tired of people acting like we didn’t learn anything about the disease during that time, specifically what people were most at risk. We learned very early on that the disease was incredibly dangerous for the elderly but not much of a threat to children, yet we never heard anyone call for a targeted lockdown where everyone else could go about their lives.
@@54raynor God this is what I mean. We seem to have forgotten that we didn't know how the virus was transmitted. It took them like a year to figure out if it was air born or not. The reason Schools closed wasn't just to protect kids,, it also was to protect their family members who were at risk. There is also a low chance of kids developing horrible medical conditions as a result of having covid. It's like we have forgotten how close we were to a complete breakdown of our hospital systems. People can debate whether the damage done to having school closed was worse than what it would have been allowing it to stay open. That's a legit conversation but to say it was 100 percent wrong is just an agenda driven lie.
Yea, after he pretended it wasn’t any more dangerous than a cold for 2 months, but then it was too late..he should’ve told everyone to wear masks to prevent spread at a minimum
He got slammed for allowing some countries to enter and blocking china..🤦🤦 but ur a trump supporter, ur barely high school diploma makes u smarter than my degrees in science and education don’t it
Yeah, this is one New Rule I can’t agree with completely. Sweden tried keeping no restrictions in the hopes that natural immunity would prevail and they admitted defeat. Imagine how it would have gone for us with a larger population and a poorer healthcare system. Natural immunity also showed that you would still catch the virus and suffer its effects so it wouldn’t help as much. And was the potential of natural immunity worth losing a life? That was the problem with Covid: no one knew just how bad it would affect you. Some people were asymptomatic, some had mild symptoms, and so on. No trend or demographic. I am definitely better off now than 4 years ago. At least I can go out and enjoy doing stuff unlike 2020.
The other issue is tracking it. It's not as easy as a card that gets issued by a professional. Unless someone is actually tested for it, we don't even know they actually got it. It could've just been the flu or food poisoning. In addition the tests took a while to come out too. Many, not all, but many of the natural immunity people were simply not wanting to get vaccinated even if they never had it. Don't want the vax, fine. But then you don't get to go to certain areas.
Korea wore masks every single day outside inside, I was there. People would run with masks on. They didnt nearly have the cases, deaths and problems. There over reaction meant that schools stayed open. Americas meant arguing.
New rule: Gov says 18 to join military 21 to drink alcohol so how about when you turn 40 the gov lets me do whatever I want like smoke a blunt without the onset of paranoia from fear of arrest. Just leave us the fk alone.
I remember. I remember some, being labeled racist for trying to restrict the spread. I remember being told facts, that were anything but facts. I remember all the hate. I remember the attacks, and intimidation. I remember the lies. I remember all the people fleeing their beautiful cities. I remember people coming together and helping one another. I remember everyone doing what was needed to protect our elderly. I remember a lot of bad decisions with regards to that. I remember .
Hind sight? Lots of this stuff was mentioned from the start, and the people who dud so were told to shut up, were censored, lost or were threatened with the loss of their medical license, and a host of other shit. Example 1 : If you dared played China/Wuhan lab you were labeled racist. Example 2 : If you dated to say closing schools would hurt students you were accused of wanting to kill children en masse. Nor hindsight.
No, Bill Maher did not show any composure. He propagated allies during the pandemic. I will give him credit for saying that many of the things he wants believed he was now wrong about.
It was just miles from where I live, so this video was hard to watch, even though I usually like watching Bill, not this time around. I lost my dad to COVID, which he contracted in hospital.
@@Soapandwater6 …maybe they lost their dad cause of the way we handled it. Truths like this will only make sure this doesn’t happen again. Name calling tells more about you
Closing schools was never about the children, it was about protecting the teachers Bill. People like you still don't understand how many teachers we were losing when they were closing schools. Child care workers were more likely than the typical American worker to die of COVID in 2020, according to new research. Once we had HVAC systems installed in our schools and reopened the problem was solved.
FACTS. My elderly relatives that are teachers did not want to go back and die teaching, they drank all the koolaid. I gave my kids extra work at home,still do, they actually bored in public school. I would home school but daddy got to work y'all.
As someone whose father died from COVID, as someone who is suffering from long COVID, as the son of scientists, as someone who lost two friends to COVID, I am disappointed in Mr. Maher's diminishing the early days of COVID. Just miles away at Columbia Presbyterian, they didn't even have enough room in their freezers for all the dead bodies. I'm glad Mr. Maher remained safe, but nothing about COVID was funny for me and my family. Also true that my family and many others may not have made it if it weren't for the checks the government cut. Those checks were lifesavers. I usually agree with Maher, but in this I don't.
Sounds like you have a genetic susceptibility to cv. You should have stayed in and been given whatever support you need from the gov. Instead you expected the entire world to shut down just for you. And us dissenters were the selfish ones?
I agree with Bill on a lot of things, but he is incredibly out of touch with the real world. He lives in his own little LA millionaire, celebrity bubble, and believes his personal anecdotes and experiences are reflective of the world at large. I think he means well, but is a selfish egotistical twat who believes he's smarter than everyone else, especially younger people, therefore his opinion must always be correct, and he is immune to criticism. Even if he has no idea what tf he's talking about, which is a lot of the time. For example, he's never even had kids, but thinks he's an ultimate authority on how to raise them. He smugly criticizes parents on a weekly basis like he has all the answers, because he spent 30 seconds looking at some clearly bullshit misinformation on Twitter.
Dear good, my sorrow for your fathers passing. I think sheltering old and unhealthy people would have been prudent what could’ve been done without the overreactions. Very early on the science community. New Covid was not a danger to young healthy people. It was treated as a one size fits all problem/solution. That was a mistake. The old and unhealthy should’ve been sheltering. The young and healthy should not have been taking up space in the hospitals. The young and healthy should’ve been allowed to continue to work and go to school. The young and healthy certainly should not have been forced to take vaccines. Those overreactions cannot be disputed. There should’ve been a middle ground to protect your father and our old loved ones but the fear mongering for control power and profit by our government who is captured by pharmaceutical companies was literally running the world. We can never let that happen again Dr D
In the early stages of the pandemic, when death counts were rising and little was known about the disease, closing schools made sense. They simply stayed closed for too long. Calls to open back up came too soon, and turned the whole thing into a partisan argument, like everything else.
Well Trump's CDC screwed it up but we were offered tests from the World Heath Organization but Trump turned them down The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases-and test them faster-have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests. - February 20, 2020
Yes, there was. The full RNA profile was available right from the start of 2020. Unfortunately the only way to test was the full RNA test, which is slow and expensive. We didn't get useable lateral-flow tests for a long time.
I remember taking my puppy outside , I was absolutely alone in a small park and suddenly a very old man came very close to me - like literally in my face and started yelling - why I am not wearing a mask ! He saw me out of window without a mask , put on his mask went outside , came to me and asked where is my mask . Stupidity has no borders!
To be fair, Mr. Maher, hindsight is always 20/20, and I think you often forget that when it comes to COVID-19 (because he missed having his audiences during the pandemic) 🙄
You are right, "g.d.", but I think Bill was just over-reacting a bit to the original over-reacting, which points out how we can better handle the next one, no ?
2020 was probably the worst of my life so far. The fact that all of that political nonsense was going on and there was no way to go out and escape it was maddening! I had the worst experience with the Unemployment agency I have ever had, and everytime things seemed to be getting better, it got worse, all thanks to COVID!
‘After the fact’ jibberish. No one knew exactly what we were dealing with. It was scary, it was all unknown. The ‘better be safe than sorry’ approach was justified…and let’s not forget the countless number of people who actually did die from COVID or the ppl who are still suffering from long COVID. All in all…..It’s all a bit too easy to ridicule the measures taken at the time.
Exactly if schools remained open and all our kids died then what. People were mad they have to deal with what teachers go though.......teaching unruly children.
Poor Bill. During COVID -- he got bored up in his big secluded mansion. His personal assistants, chauffeurs, private chef / cuisine delivery staff all ended up inconveniencing him at some point during that time. What a damn shame! Bill suffered so much.
He couldn’t stand up on a stage and have people applaud him. Also, get over it. I changed the channel when he started in on Covid again for the 1000th time.
I'm a bit confused as to why Bill seems to be denouncing COVID vaccines. After all, people who had COVID were able to get it again, so "natural immunity" wasn't cutting it.
Well, there were a disproportionate amount of people who got major health complications from those vaccines. Pericarditis was one of the big ones, I'm still recovering from my 2nd bout thanks to the vaccine, which as it turns out barely helped improve immunity.
Unfortunately, the antibodies generated from the vaccine also seem to be short-lived. As for the comment above mine, there is a much greater risk of getting pericarditis from COVID than the vaccine
It's because Bill has had a longstanding issue with health stuff - not sure why, maybe the 'old hippie' in him. He isn't a full anti-vaxxer but flirts with the line quite a bit. And I don't get the whole desire for 'natural immunity' - that requires you to get it, suffer the effects and then (hopefully) make a full recovery with naturally-produced antibodies. But COVID isn't like chicken pox - getting it and getting it out of the way doesn't work well for something that, like the flu, evolves quickly and thus makes immunity (and vaccines) lag in effectiveness over time.
Pretty sure I got an early dose that didn't get properly diagnosed and we've never been sicker. A year later, after a few vaccines, we did get diagnosed, but I've had worse flus. I'd say get vaxxed if your area is getting hot, if only for the symptom relief.
@@Durzo1259 Uh huh. And you have had the exhaustive medical assessments to show that this condition (supposing you aren't just making this up whole cloth) is related to the vaccine (assuming you got it)? Cuz there are a lot of bots pushing this type of crap. If the problems (much less the 'sudden deaths') arose by the millions from the vaccines as is claimed, then I should see at least some people in my wider circle (almost all of whom are vaccinated) have issues/die, yet not a single one has had issues. Not one. Either we are all the luckiest people on Earth, or you are making it up.
Here in Australia: April 2020 - NSW Health allowed passengers from the Ruby Princess to disembark in Sydney despite knowing that test results, which would prove whether or not coronavirus was present among sick passengers, would be available within hours. Passenger just got into taxis and took off. Later we had the "Ruby Princess" infection clusters and 28 people dead as a direct result.
I _wish_ someone would do a study on the amount of people who possibly or were infected as a result of allowing that plane to disembark in Atlanta & shipping people all over our country & Canada
No. People died because they didn't have an immune system that knew how to deal with covid. Stop blaming humans for something natural, we are made of viruses.
We were all locked in our homes getting bombarded with opposing information. We didn't know what to do other than try to protect ourselves and our loved ones (most of us anyway). Whining that we made mistakes in the past is low hanging fruit.
And who pushed the panic on us? The bureaucrats who wargamed these over reactions in the first place without bringing in true medical professionals for the decision process as well as their sycophants in the media. Pfizer and their allies (Gates and Fauci) were a major part of this.
@@moloney55 DUDE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? BECAUSE JOE ROGAN TOOK IVERMECTION (ALONG WITH THOUSSSSSANDS OF DOLLARS OF OTHER MEDICINES) AND DIDNT DIE ! BECAUSE THE STRAIN KEPT MORPHING MAKING THE VACCINE LESS AFFECTIVE ? THE ONLY PART I AGREE ON IS THE CLOSING OF SCHOOLS. THEY SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT BETTER. I MEAN EVEN GOING TO SCHOOL AN COUPLE HOURS AN DAY, 3 DAYS AN WEEK, OUTSIDE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER. ALSO THE LAB THEORY IS STILL NOT 100 PERCENT PROVEN. MAYBE IT DID COME FROM AN LAB. IT WOULD MAKE SENSE. WOULD ALSO MAKE SENSE IT CAME FROM AN BAT SOMEONE ATE. EITHER SEEMS COMPLETELY PLAUSIBLE. ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS TRYING TO SEE IF THEY CONTROL US IS NUTS. THEY LITERALLY HAD US QUARANTINED WITH AN VAX CARD. WE GOT PAID TO STAY AT HOME. THEY CANCELED SCHOOLS. THEY CANCELED FLIGHTS. THEY CLOSED BUSINESSES. YET ONE DAY THEY JUST ENDED ALL OF IT. MAKES ZERO SENSE. THEY COULD HAVE JUST KEPT EXTENDING IT.
Dear js, I knew exactly what to believe. I believe my own logic in critical thinking skills I believe what I saw happening around me. I watched young healthy people get Covid, and have no symptoms better in a day. I personally got Covid. I was better in one weeks time I’m young I’m healthy. I watched an old person die from Covid because they had many comorbidities than I realized after speaking to folks from numerous hospitals the people that died from Covid we’re dying with Covid just like 99% of the deaths in hospital die with pneumonia. I believe my own. I trust the government zero
He’s so right! As a nurse who worked during Covid, I first got Covid when my immune system was compromised by everything I had to wear on my face. Got bronchitis which lead to Covid. It was insane.
I thought the reason for keeping kids home was so infected adults didn't infect their kids who would go to school and infect other kids who would go home and infect their parents who would then die.
@Zheshi14 Vaccines don't prevent spread. They prepare your immune system to fight the disease in advance. If you study for a test, you still have to take the test. It just won't take as long and the results will be better.
Nobody ever claimed these vaccines would be 100%,,,,,they certainly reduced a lot of the spread@@Zheshi14 Here you go:Copilot Certainly! Let’s delve into the impact of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States: Lives Saved: From the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign through the end of November 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented about 1.1 million deaths and 10.3 million hospitalizations in the United States1. A study estimated that COVID-19 vaccinations prevented nearly 140,000 deaths in the U.S. by May 20212. Even now, COVID-19 vaccines continue to save lives, and an estimate of the lives saved into 2022 would be even larger1. Hospitalizations and Infections Averted: Between December 12, 2020, and June 30, 2021, vaccines were estimated to have prevented 1.1 million hospitalizations and halted 14 million infections in the U.S.1. By early March 2021, vaccination reduced the total number of new cases by 4.4 million, prevented approximately 0.12 million hospitalizations, and decreased the population infection rate by 1.34 percentage points3.
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. That proves to deniers that not only elderly people in bad health succumb to Covid. I always get mad when I hear idiots dismiss it as "just a cold". It is serious, and at the beginning we didn't know what the heck we were dealing with. My mother now will require oxygen for the rest of her life after complications with Covid.
If we haven't learned a thing from COVID, are we not still better off today than we were in March 2020? Mistakes were & are always made, but I'd rather be on the side that was safer than sorry, even though- as stated, mistakes were made, because nobody is perfect.
Bill is in his own bubble. I was so much better for years ago than I am now. My rent was half of what it is now cost of groceries weren’t so outrageous. The cost of living has doubled yet Florida still will not pay workers a livable wage. I’d love to rewind and go back to 2020!!,
Bull shit! Dr. Fauci, run that show! There is no way to contain a virus! Biden opened the border and allowed covid infected people to flood the US, spreading the delta virus far and wide, and cases shot up quickly. Biden done, and nothing covid is still spreading. I have a friend that just got out of the hospital today 4/1/24!
According to Bill we should have basically done nothing. But because we can never ever know what would have happened had we done nothing he can never lose the argument. And also, according to Bill, there is only one country on the entire planet. No, wait, there is only person and his couple of rich buddies.
Let's not forget, someone decided in 2018 that a pandemic preparedness program was a waste of money and scrapped it 😀👍
Thank you for remembering.
You're exactly right...had Trump not fired our international pandemic response team this thing might have been stopped in China and never hit America. The very response team that Trump fired had previously stopped ebola in Africa and kept it from hitting the United States.
Thank you very much for reminding us.
Hint- His last name starts with T and rhymes with rump!
rocket science at its finest ... its Holy Week for many, buy a bible bruh?
Only extroverts “suffered” mentally from the shut-ins. Introverts were having a BLAST.
Yeah, I was training for that my whole life.
Ha! I actually agree with you here .
Yep it was awesome!
Lockdown didn't even change my way of life.
Lockdown meant I didn't have deal with ANYBODY(except delivery folks). Fabulous! Loved the day drinking, lol.
"Where's boeing when you need a door to fall off?"😂
The cardboard audiance was insane I forgot about that.
I thought that’s what they did at Hillary Clinton rallies.
@@brendaschouten-beckett6448She doesn’t have rallies, so you’re stupid on more than one level.
As an ICU nurse for over 30 years, I have never witnessed so many patients dying in a day, 4 in the morning shift and 4 in the night shift. And from an unknown disease that we have never seen before. Hospitals have to have new treatment protocols almost everyday. Looking back, I don’t know how we all kept our sanity while trying to save our patients from a monster and protect our family and ourselves from falling ill. I’ve always felt that a COVID Commission should be formed because of the lives lost and the PTSD that the healthcare workers are going through right now. We can all look back and say we all overreacted but then again hindsight is always 20/20. I would rather not have had all the accolades that “Nurses are Heroes” than have had to face the tragedy of the COVID pandemic in my lifetime.
Thank you for sharing and also for reminding people how horrible it was and the unknown, especially for the healthcare workers
Word!
Must have also been hard for you that your jobs were being politicized by the right.
This!
Well said!
The one store that didn't close during covid was the liquor store!
Can I drink enough liquor so as to pickle myself enough that COVID nopes on past me?
Essential service.
And even the grocery stores had almost all booze at a discount!
😂
Dispensaries too. The high tax business stayed
Closing the Beaches was the most stoopid. California cops even arrested single people who violated the closure and were on the beach with no other people around.
Walmart 24 hour stores reduced their hours, forcing people to shop in crowded stores during the day instead of offering the option to shop at 3 AM with only three dozen other customers in the entire store. Even worse Walmart got rid of the overnight stocking crews and forced them to work during the day when the stores were crammed with people, subjecting employees to contact with thousands of people every hour. Both ideas the exact OPPOSITE of good sense.
Of course, the big-box retailers were allowed to stay open with very few restrictions while all the small businesses who only got 30 customers per hour were forced to close. That only sent thousands more people to the big-box stores every hour.
A surfer in Los Angeles out on the water alone on his board got $1,000 ticket when he came in.
Restaurants are still using COVID as an excuse for shitty service
When was the last time you went to a beach in CA that wasn't packed with people? Funny how cause and effect works, huh?
Close the beach so it looks empty and the yahoos start thinking... It rarely turns out well.
@@TheBrothergreen WTF are you even saying
@@meowy4720 I'm saying that you don't get to point at a closed beach and say "there's nobody here" as evidence that the government is overreacting by issuing citations to the 5 people who can't read.
Of course nobody is there. The beaches (and most other public places and venues) are closed. Cause -> Effect.
The fact that the crowd waited to clap after he said it was a mistake to close down schools during COVID tells you exactly where their stance is.
Hindsight is "20-20".
Yeah cause at that time Data from the spanish flu suggested it was not so bad of an idea...
Most of them R still clueless.
@@stoppin2look
Apparently common sense is no longer common 😂
@@stoppin2look For you, of course, but Maher was a skeptic from the outset.
And Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense in 2019 and 2020, sitting over there on the sidelines having to laugh away as he knows he was a part of all of this, too. How great!!!
I'm not sure how Esper can be blamed for the slow response to Covid-19. It's not like he was in charge of using the Defense Production Act. He was Secretary of Defense for 15 months. Trump fired him in November 2020 right after the election.
Yes. 🙌🏽. I thought the same thing.
How do you blame Esper for the slow response to Covid-19? He was Secretary of Defense for only 15 months, and not in charge of activating the Defense Production Act. That's the president's responsibility, and Trump fired him right after the 2020 election.
I like when Bill has to remind people, "you can clap now".
@@TunesGS57no one should blame Esper for covid specifically, you should blame Esper for not speaking up after he was fired but waited 2 years to speak up in his book, strength in courage at Barnes and Noble now!😮😅😊
1.8 million people died from COVID-19. I was working in NYC. The epicenter of Covid. This was BAD! Rather have a government overreact to save lives than the contrary. This rant from Bill has become old and tired.
And you're an idiot if you actually believe that crap. Multiple studies revealed that people reported to die from Covid actually die while they had it
No they died with covid.
I bet you think BLM riots actually SLOWED the spread.
@@DougBurgum4VP Check out the Excess Deaths measure. It strongly suggests that the number of covid deaths was actually significantly more than reported.
those numbers have long been debunked. they counted motorcycle deaths as covid deaths. and people seriously never learn that when you sacrifice freedom for security you lose both. the pro overreaction people are the bad guys. history is not being well to them
Not all of us gave into all of this nonsense. And any push back caused life altering harm to the people questioning this insanity.
We really got to see the state of free speech in this country.
You know Bill, you talk about people being a bit over exaggerated on some issues, but we weren’t asked to wash our hands every five minutes. Some of the steps might have been extreme, yes, but many of them were just common sense when it comes to disease control, or cleanliness. You forgot how your celebrity has put you into a realm separate from the everyday common man. There is room for you to grow up a little bit more!
“If you don’t know what a glory hole is, don’t look into it”!😂😂😂
That's a good way to get your eye put out!
I was looking for love in all the wrong places....
Amazing joke
One for the ages
I didn't know what it was, but without looking it up, I think I do now.
can't deal with an applause break after every single joke.
The seals clapping
Funny, Bill can't deal with that applause not happening
That's how television has worked, in every year of it's existence. There is literally a sign that lights up, telling them to do it. You have never watched a comedy show on TV, your entire life, that didn't have that.
It does seem a bit forced.
@@Tijuanabill Yeah except none of these jokes are actually funny. Making fun of COVID? So hilarious that over 1 million people died because of pure incompetence and right wing propaganda! 😐And you can tell because the audience SOUNDS forced when they applaud. Not to mention Maher has been known to lose his mind because the audience doesn't give him a standing ovation for every little quip he makes!!!
Ironically, Iran's attack on Israel was the first direct flight between the two countries since 1979
Let’s not forget how some networks ran death counters, which suddenly ceased on January 20, 2021.
It's funny the clip of Trump saying it's going to disappear like a miracle cause that's what happened lol
I don't get mocking handwashing. You don't have to do it every 5 minutes but if you're out in public, don't touch your face, and wash your hands as soon as you get home. You'll cut way down on your colds and chest infections. If you combine that with wearing a mask in indoor public spaces you won't get colds ever. I know because this is what I do. Maybe Bill just doesn't mind having a lot of colds.
Sure, handwashing is great for general sanitation. Didn't do shit for preventing the spread covid which was the entire point of the bit. Did you not bother listening?
Colds are annoying, but meausures like washing hands also reduces the chances of getting flu, which can be deadly. Getting flu vaccinations every year is another obvious precaution, but as much as I agree with Bill about many things, he tends to be an anti-vaxxer.
You don’t understand comedy
@@nojustno3331 Handwashing was encouraged at the time from a lack of knowledge about the effect it would have on COVID, but it has health benefits, and no drawbacks. Bill shouldn't have mentioned it, because it make his fans less likely to do it.
It's called a strawman argument -- represent your opponent's position as an exaggerated and absurd version of the authentic one, so that it is easy to dismiss or burn down.
Didn’t bill tell everyone to shut up and be happy ? He should have taken his own advice in 2020.
Government wasn't the solution, it was the problem.
Scariest words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Wait...what ? Bill spent 9 minutes trashing the entire covid ordeal as an overblown event, then at the end Bill 'craps' on Trump for disregarding it ? It seems like they both have the same opinion in common. LOL
I seem to remember Trump wanted to restrict people coming in from China and the Dems going nuts. Telling us not to worry about it.
Ikr
He probably did not have a solid closer, so he pandered back to his reliable Trump bashing to go out on a free TDS laugh from the crowd.
Exactly. Trump was right. It did just go away. I haven't been sick in over 2 yrs. Had a mild cold for a couple days
Ignoring a pandemic and enacting tyrannical decrees in an overblown attempt to contain it are both terrible reactions
Bill, easy to laugh now, you survived and so did I. We closed the schools and I (a high school teacher in a poor community with many, many multigenerational households where grandparents or great aunts take care of the kids because parents both work two or more jobs) still had 4 students lose 7 family members - and those are just who I happened to learn about - for all I know there were 10 times as many, because people didn't talk about it.
We don't know how bad the pandemic would have been if we didn't close the schools, wear masks, etc., but the countries that took serious actions did far better than did we. Consider Vietnam, with a death rate about 1/7th that of the U.S.
The people who died AREN'T HERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. So no big deal, right? No. In 2022 the World Health Organization estimated 14.9 million people had died of Covid worldwide. That is roughly 1 out of every 500 people in the world. In the US we've had over a million deaths from Covid - roughly 1 out of every 340 residents. By comparison, auto accidents kill 40,000 US residents per year, or 1 out of 8500 residents. So Covid killed as many people in about 2 years as car accidents kill in 25 years.
Thank you, teacherguy❤
I'm a school psychologist, and remember so many students losing loved ones. It was heartbreaking.
And thanks for the stats to put it into perspective for the mathematically-challenged.
I am from South Africa, I remember fighting for my life during covid. I had the privilege of being in a private hospital. There were many people close to me that lost their lives.
THANK YOU for speaking some basic, common sense; and for pointing out the facts of the matter that should be quite obvious. 👍
Vietnam has 1/4th the population of the U.S so by default will have 1/4th as many deaths..
Americans are diabetic and obese which explains the rest.
U.S. states on opposite ends of policy yielded similar results as well so... Yeah.
Go get your 11th stinger though hopefully be afraid enough to get a 12th too.
Completely agree. I'm getting super tired of hearing him constantly rant about this because he was inconvenienced for a rather short period of time.
Since when Bill Maher cares about kids at school? 🤣🤣🤣
The very first thought that popped into my head, too
Hey, those kids needed a break from the social anxiety of being stuck in class with their peers. It was a wake up call to all those parents who up until that point didn't realize how hard it was to be a teacher, especially when some 5% of those shit bags were the source of 95% of the teacher's time and frustration. Now it seems they have forgotten with student misbehavior back in full force, unchecked. Talk about short attention spans...
I don't think he cares, I know I don't. But the facts are the fact, so why not mention it?
Since they were all wandering his neighborhood, bored, screaming and playing all day everyday during lockdown. 😆
Doesn’t matter, the results of the madness will be with us for decades.
Do they give a prize to the audience member who cackles loudest and quickest after every line? If sycophancy ever becomes an Olympic sport, there'll be medals abound in that crowd 😂
It's so insufferable. Bill needs to step in and tell the producers to get different people in the audience it's so terrible
Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
@@mang0donald874 Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
Thankyou. I have been saying this for weeks, his audience is driving me crazy!!
Thanks Bill. I paid no attention to the man behind the curtain, I was outside all the time cycling, playing golf and just breathing deeply because it is good for me.
If the world was a hospital America would be in the mental ward 😂😂
Yes 4 years ago the so-called president telling us to drink bleach to kill COVID has given many of us PTSD trying to survive that M.....!
@@eddiejeanbrown9474 man up bruh you here to comment right?
@@eddiejeanbrown9474
The system broke down to preserve the reputations of people like Fauci. We have privatized so many of the functions of government that building safe aircraft is difficult for us.
Rimshot!! 😂😂
Do tell, why do you hate fauci?? Rhetorical question, you have no idea WHY you hate him.
As an Australian I can't comprehend how the United States could even entertain the idea of reelection, for a man who responded to the trauma of nurses seeing containers of dead bodies, by handing out free pens.
Sociopath. that’s the word.
It’s still inconceivable to me that there were so many people who ever wanted him as president in the first place. How could anyone want him again?
@@dancepigloverCause they want him to fuck up everyone they hate. Thats why they voted for him.
Hopefully they vote biden out. @@dancepiglover
@@dancepigloverCause it’s an ego thing and a News Media thing. They’re bombarded 24/7 by “owning the libs” and “the libs wanna destroy your country.” If we didn’t have FOX and OAN and CNN and MSNBC. People wouldn’t know what to think. The news literally brainwashes people as to what to think. Without the heavy bias of the news and just information we’d be wayyy better off. If all those News stations told their followers to support and show understanding to each side and to love the other side people would do it, cause people are sheep. I 100% blame the news media for sowing division in this country and destroying it. Each side should have to do 2 hours daily about the positive things the other side brings to the table. The news is the programming in this country. Also Trump and his division of the country is a yuge part of that too
Odd to me that "We ate in parking lots" is listed as one of the "stupid" things we did. Taking stuff outdoors and letting life continue was about the only smart thing we did! Santa Barbara was a model city for that, closing down State street to cars so all the restaurants could serve people outdoors - festive and safe. Astoundingly hospitals in sunny California did not utilize their parking lots as waiting rooms and had everybody crowded together indoors - covid folks and broken legs alike. Talk about stupid. The idiocy was in the extremes - crowd everybody together indoors at hospitals, but close down beaches. So damn dumb.
It would’ve been better to eat indoors like normal people at the shelter the old and sick. Young and healthy people like me could’ve went to restaurants gotten Covid been perfectly fine in a weeks time. I think he’s putting out the overreaction was on necessary for the very very vast majority. Unless you were old or unhealthy.
Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so😅
Half good points, half idiotic
Nailed it in 5 words.
which ones were idiotic?
Curious as to which the good points where and which were the idiotic ones. My take was that the majority were idiotic.
It's all idiotic when you realize it's just Bill Maher doing another victory lap on one time he was right. He's been trying to own the minority of people who did stupid stuff (washed the mail) or elected stupid people who fenced off playgrounds since the pandemic. Bill's an egotist. The best way to get on his good side aside from clapping and woo'ing like the audience is to be a panelist and laugh at his jokes or bring up COVID/the vaccine.
Mostly, if not all, idiotic.
Bill, don’t you remember in March 2020 we didn’t know anything about COVID-19. I remember that month because it just so happens to be when I was born and two days before my birthday on March 15. My company laid everyone off for the next three months. It didn’t just happen at my job. It happened all across the United States and globally. Major industrialized nation said this is going to be terrible. If you don’t have an essential job you are now being told to stay home. We joke about COVID-19. Some people even say it wasn’t that serious by the end of 2020 1.8 million people died from COVID-19. Back then we didn’t know what to do. We didn’t even have a testing for COVID-19 in March 20 20 the CDC honestly didn’t know how to approach the disease we didn’t even know what it was. We had just started trying to use brand new RNA technology to synthesize a vaccine. a vaccine that would’ve normally taken us a decade or more to develop. We did it in less than 10 months just so happened brand new technology had just fallen into our lap. Sidenote, RNA vaccination technology that’s probably how we will cure cancer. No that is likely we will cure cancer. People often forget we didn’t know what we were dealing with even today we still don’t understand the severity of the situation. People forget we experienced heavy supply side inflation because of COVID-19. In a global economy, we had people all across the globe not working some of them sick many of them quarantining, and that stuff we wanted stuff we needed. We could not get. We wanted chips we couldn’t get them. I remember working in the auto industry and our assembly client not being able to get computer chips to build parts. We about it now some of us don’t even understand how close we came to going over the edge. If that virus had been just a little bit more deadly just a smidge could’ve been worse worse. We are very lucky to come away as unscathed as we did, even though we lost millions of people, even though we still haven’t recovered economically speaking. Even though some people still don’t understand the government had to spend money remember people were laid off. What were you going to do? Tell them to eat dirt. You had to give them money to spend. Remember those words when you’re laughing, I don’t think this is a situation to necessarily joke about especially since so few people actually understand the dynamics of it.
Wow! You are gullible.
Great response
Trump knew in February.
100%. I’m also talking this commentary a bit less as comical because Bill is known to be an anti-vaxxer, and while he was right that people who are obsess are at far higher risk of Covid than others, people like me, who were in their 40s then, but immune suppressed because we had been through some random but terminal disease that required a bone marrow transplant, or anyone who was immune suppressed because of autoimmune conditions badly needed to take whatever precautions we could until we knew more. Today, I still wear a mask when I go into a shop that is smaller and has less airflow. I still get vaccinated every 6 months, and thankfully, I’ve still never had Covid. But I’m very lucky, and at least 8 members of a 400 person patient community I belong to online with people who wert through what I went to, died; and many more still suffer from long Covid. There’s nothing funny about any of this. But yes, we are far better off now than we were 4 years ago. No big surprise.
False. The CDC knew all about it because they paid for the gain of function.
Admit it. Y'all went nuts over COVID and you demonized those of us who didn't. You're re-writing history, here, mate.
Wonder how any people laughing are the ones who pushed CLOTH masks. 😂
Easy to mock after the fact. I bet you took your precautions - and smoked more than usual.
Bill Maher made some videos during the pandemic...he never left his mansion and had his groceries delivered.
also easy to mock during the fact. i lived in sweden at the time where we had no masks or lockdowns. the swedes thought the world went batshit crazy and they were right.
@@CaneFu and? laying low was key and ever Walmart was delivering your groceries, if ya set it up ... god damn - letmeguess you got PTSD from a grocery shopping jones ... fuk
Right I don’t understand this attitude, I remember things a lot different and people died ❤but I’m not an ideologue
After the fact is when you analyze what you did right. what you did wrong, and how to do better next time. Since it is a political weakness for the incumbent president no such action has happened or will happen.
As usual Bill; the survivors get to write the history.
…… and then Republicans come along preferring “alternative facts” ……..
Oh, you mean 98% of the people that got it!
And TH-cam STILL blocks half the sane comments on the subject
I’d love for Bill to be the moderator at the Trump/Biden debate!
OMG, That's brilliant!
I'd pay money to be front and center of that.
Closing the schools was bad for the children but not as bad as grandma and grandpa on life support ventilators
Grandma and grandpa weren’t in school, they were at the grocery stores, Home Depot and Walmart. Apparently Covid stayed away from those establishments but it ran rampant in empty schools.
I'm not even so sure how bad for the kids it really was. I think whatever research has been done on that is questionable and there are many aspects of school that currently exist which can be just as harmful for kids and minors.
@@svscaredOMG 😮
Wasn't bad for my children and I don't believe it was bad for any. If so, the home schooling or online education would be banned.
@@svscared If staying home during Covid was so bad for school kids, then why are so many parents allowed to home-school their children in general? Esp. since the regular school kids had remote classes with instructors, while many home-schooled kids have parents with few qualifications teaching them.
Over 1,000,000 Americans died including veterans, teachers, first responders, doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, etc, but no biggie Bill.
The people who died "from" covid, in the U.S., had an average of 3.8 underlying morbidity issues. Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, to name a few. If you had covid as well at the time of your death, it was classified as covid related. Hospitals were paid for every covid linked death.
and millions more die each year from poverty, obesity, or smoking. but you only care about covid because it looks scary and is obsessively covered.
@flyballhdeg9775
How many Americans died in 2019?
Asking for a friend~
And it's mostly because Donnie was incapable of leadership. He just wished the virus away. "It will disappear by Easter"
@@flyballhdeg9775 You just described 75% of Americans .... We are an obese nation with terrible dietary and drinking habits which leads to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension
I'm feed up with the "didn't need to close the schools" arguments. Children didn't live in a vacuum. They interacted with older people at home, their grand-parents for example. having 30 kids packed in an unventilated classroom and then sending them home is not wise as most of them were asymptomatic and big vectors of the disease. From NIH: "Although younger children had lower viral loads than teens and adults, they were most likely to transmit COVID-19 in their household."
Schools could have been opened much more, if adults could have wrapped their heads around the fact that clamoring to keep the bars and every other social gathering area open repeatedly put their hospitals on the edge of collapse. Half the country decided it was all a hoax though.
The first vaccine came out 12/2020 and was widely available to vulnerable/elderly over those next couple months, but schools remained closed for the rest of the calendar year. People ended up getting nearly as sick from losing generalized immunity from losing those 4-6 extra months. We should’ve left it up to individual teachers and provided extended pay for those who were willing to come in for the students that didn’t live in immunocompromised households. It would’ve helped rebuild general immunity in people in phases and probably prevented a lot of the flare ups we saw when we dropped the kids in the classroom all at once in the next school year happened.
All the crazy crap we did was due to the fact that we were absent a leader… Which is the same reason we know Faucci’s name.
Mega: Are you insane? Dr. Faucci was the reason why we had Covid to begin with. Instead of shutting down gain-of-function research he instead moved it to China, which then leaked from the Wuhan lab. Faucci then lied about everything from how it was released to two-weeks to flatten the curve. Dr. Death should be on trial for crimes against humanity, you ignorant fool.
I'm not sure if I can agree with Bill here. As a person living in a third-world country, I can still remember how much our people suffered in the pandemic. Patients were literally falling off their beds dead and the 'natural immunity' you mentioned about, that simply became a joke at one point. And our healthcare system, despite it's flaws, managed to handle the crisis in the first few months of the pandemic atleast. Many people were praying so hard to get a shot of vaccine, and when it came out, our people were partying like it was Independence Day, despite the fact that a jab did not guarantee complete immunity and precautions had to be taken
You know, you can cry and complain about the precautions that we had to take for the first few months, but I say from experience, had I not followed them, I'd have been in an overloaded freezer, and my family or friends would not have even got the chance to see my burial. That being said, I still agree with Bill on many things, but this? NO.
Thank you, my global neighbor. Best to you 💕
Don’t believe you at all. The nations that didn’t get jabbed are the ones who fared best.
@@Mark_Jacobson81 source: trust me bro
Gotta say, a basic concept of immunology seeming laughable to those in a 3rd world country is just...hilarious. Like a bunch of tribesman wondering why all their dicks itch and then throwing away all the condoms sent to them by missionaries from civilization.
@@Mark_Jacobson81 belief is not required here. This is not a church. You can find it out which nations fared best on the account of getting the vaccine.
Easy to be glib, snarky and mean when you're not responsible for responding to a worldwide health emergency and you have no information about it. I had a good friend die early in the pandemic and I can't describe the shock, sadness and fear of that time. Bill has been the worst kind of Monday morning quarter back imaginable. He just sounds like a jerk now on this topic. I wish he'd just shut up about it.
Shut up generally would be preferred in my hood tbh - never found him too funny, material always seems to come from a place of arrogance more than wit. What do I know I've never looked like him or missed a cycle of growth
Same here.
Bill is perfect on illuminating that our 'experts' and politicians did NOT respect or follow the data. Move beyond your political comments & emotions.
Bill is perfect on illuminating that our 'experts' and politicians did NOT respect or follow the data. Move beyond your political comments & emotions. @@wobblyashes9102
To be fair, he's addressing the response to the pandemic on a high, political and societal level. Find me ONE SINGLE word he issues in criticism of the local nurses and healthcare providers simply doing their best to cope.
The closest you can get is he said we as a society were banging pots and pans in SUPPORT of nurses.
He's criticizing the government. Not the medical industry.
Given everything we've seen and should've learned about Covid I think we would've come out better ignoring it than overreacting like we did.
I just watched a video clip where a guest who was asked to be on his show was told …”no….I won’t refrain from my weed smoking ..that’s a deal breaker “. Wow…really Bill? A guy was just trying to stay drug free and sober ? And you say ..”no..I have to smoke weed the entire time I interview you “
Yeah I saw that. He told that to stevo. Well. He's just a douchebag who is now officially an old man screaming at the clouds.
He didn’t have to go on. Your sobriety is your choice. You can’t dictate what someone does with their own body.
@@Chinchilla2310 : Did you miss the last 4 years when the Biden WH forced vaccinations on our country?
Bill has become the old guy saying “Get off my lawn.”
Only a moron would make such an analogy.
Which is funny, because the time he's bitching about was when absolutely nobody was on his lawn.
@@Terastashe's the man who screams "cancel culture" when someone dares criticise him.
That's OK -- only one group of people would "dare to trespass" on his lawn...and they would be the LAST group he would want to see in his entire NEIGHBORHOOD.
That clown don't have a lawn he lives in a bubble
I remember the cold storage units outside the hospitals when the morgues filled up. That's my memory of 2020. Bill's being a bit dismissive about how we were supposed to take or handle something like that considering it had never happened in his lifetime.
Grow up, crybaby
My GF works at Cornell as an ICU nurse. In march of 2020, her entire pediatric unit was sent to another hospital. Every available unit in the hospital, the OR, and waiting rooms were converted to adult covid ICUs. The patient load doubled or quadrupled per nurse. There literally wasn't enough nursing staff to handle the incoming covid patient load, which is why travel nurses were called in from everywhere (often getting paid double). All of this is completely unheard of in modern medicine. After 30 days of no elective surgeries (a major source of revenue for hospitals), paying travel nurses double rates, and putting nurses in hotels every night so as not to infect their loved ones, the entire NYC hospital system was reaching a breaking point. If lockdowns were not implemented, the system would have imploded. Everything about this situation was completely unprecedented.
Funny how Bill didn't mention the 1,000,000 Americans who died. I got tired of his Covid whining pretty quick. He was at it on one show with Bari ("I'm done with Covid") Weiss and saying "Covid is over," when it wasn't. The Omicron variant hit afterward. I never saw him admit he was wrong.
@@stephenschaffenberger6765we were never overwhelmed
@@Swlabr61it wasn't as serious as we thought hospitalization was less than 1 %
Officials didn't think it was a big deal until the general public went bananas.
The general public were fearmongered like crazy by our media - too many fell for the hype.
And politicians jumped in to take advantage - power grab.
@@richardlamb3426 Yup.
Great truth Bill!!! Thank u
FYI...COVID took my sister, my ex-wife's 2 sisters, my step daughter, my neighbor, and almost killed me, despite all of us living in separate houses and not seeing each other during the pandemic. In my experience, not enough precautions were taken during the pandemic.
I bet you're all fat
Lost my mom, uncle and 3 friends to Covid...my condolences to you
@CaneFu, So sorry to hear! What area are you in? Were they all vaccinated?
Stay in your cave
Nope - not enough precautions were taken at the start of the pandemic, which he went over. Then it switched from the government spreading the disease to the government using it as an excuse for repression. The US, along with the UK, Italy and Spain got the worst of both worlds.
Ah yes COVID-19, something Bill appears to have forgotten he rode out safe and largely unaffected, making his show from the courtyard garden of his mansion.
He masks his ignorance as comedy. Masking was necessary, natural immunity still requires a shot, washing hands was not a bad thing. He's not a virologist and shouldn't pretend he is.
Right…to protect his audiences staff and himself! Somehow that offends you? I’m sure you continued going to family reunions and to the movies and then couldn’t figure out how you caught COVID! Then like every other day of your life you woke up offended!
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@@brentmason6782 The fact that Bill Maher, for whatever reason, doesn't seem to remember how little he suffered during COVID-19 compared to others doesn't offend me in the slightest. He's Bill Maher, the man's default mode is smug, rich, stoned and out of touch. It's his terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and and condescending way of speaking at people who are still doing it tough under biden I take issue with.
BiLL won't stop his, I was right about covid, crap. How many shows & podcasts will Maher squeeze that BiT in? 🤔 🤪
*Cheers 🍻 from **#CancúnMéxico*
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Spot on Bill!!! Cheers🇨🇦
"And there are no miracles" --- LOL. I love it!
I'm so sick of these idiots who look back with perfect knowledge but never seem to point out we had no treatment for the disease at this time and that thousands upon thousands were dying every fucking week. Yeah we made mistakes people should admit it, people should also admit we have no idea whether those efforts would have worked because half the country didn't bother to follow them.
I lost 3 relatives to Covid, one in April 2020 (cousin), another the day before the election in 2020 (Father-in-law) and a 3rd (unvaccinated) in December 2021 a couple of days after Christmas (Aunt) ..... Then my brother refused to get vaccinated and caught Covid, foolishly believed he was now immune and got it again 9 months later ..... Like the flu you are only immune to the strain you catch but not immune to the mutations
in hindsight the people that didnt follow them were right
Yeah the treatment didn't do anything. C'mon.
And I’m sick and tired of people acting like we didn’t learn anything about the disease during that time, specifically what people were most at risk.
We learned very early on that the disease was incredibly dangerous for the elderly but not much of a threat to children, yet we never heard anyone call for a targeted lockdown where everyone else could go about their lives.
@@54raynor God this is what I mean. We seem to have forgotten that we didn't know how the virus was transmitted. It took them like a year to figure out if it was air born or not. The reason Schools closed wasn't just to protect kids,, it also was to protect their family members who were at risk. There is also a low chance of kids developing horrible medical conditions as a result of having covid. It's like we have forgotten how close we were to a complete breakdown of our hospital systems. People can debate whether the damage done to having school closed was worse than what it would have been allowing it to stay open. That's a legit conversation but to say it was 100 percent wrong is just an agenda driven lie.
Alternate Facts from Maher, for laughs. Tuning out now.
Sorry the truth hurts your brain
He often kind of hits on both sides of an issue ...
As an overweight person, I chuckled that he caught the virus and my fat hinny didn't!!!
WTG, Bill!
Honestly, I don't even WANT to remember 2020, or 2021
Trump ignored covid!? WHat? He got slammed for trying to close off people from coming here.......not quite ignoring.
Yea, after he pretended it wasn’t any more dangerous than a cold for 2 months, but then it was too late..he should’ve told everyone to wear masks to prevent spread at a minimum
He got slammed for allowing some countries to enter and blocking china..🤦🤦 but ur a trump supporter, ur barely high school diploma makes u smarter than my degrees in science and education don’t it
Yeah, this is one New Rule I can’t agree with completely. Sweden tried keeping no restrictions in the hopes that natural immunity would prevail and they admitted defeat. Imagine how it would have gone for us with a larger population and a poorer healthcare system.
Natural immunity also showed that you would still catch the virus and suffer its effects so it wouldn’t help as much. And was the potential of natural immunity worth losing a life? That was the problem with Covid: no one knew just how bad it would affect you. Some people were asymptomatic, some had mild symptoms, and so on. No trend or demographic.
I am definitely better off now than 4 years ago. At least I can go out and enjoy doing stuff unlike 2020.
The other issue is tracking it. It's not as easy as a card that gets issued by a professional. Unless someone is actually tested for it, we don't even know they actually got it. It could've just been the flu or food poisoning. In addition the tests took a while to come out too.
Many, not all, but many of the natural immunity people were simply not wanting to get vaccinated even if they never had it. Don't want the vax, fine. But then you don't get to go to certain areas.
Korea wore masks every single day outside inside, I was there. People would run with masks on. They didnt nearly have the cases, deaths and problems. There over reaction meant that schools stayed open. Americas meant arguing.
New rule: Gov says 18 to join military 21 to drink alcohol so how about when you turn 40 the gov lets me do whatever I want like smoke a blunt without the onset of paranoia from fear of arrest. Just leave us the fk alone.
I remember. I remember some, being labeled racist for trying to restrict the spread. I remember being told facts, that were anything but facts. I remember all the hate. I remember the attacks, and intimidation. I remember the lies. I remember all the people fleeing their beautiful cities. I remember people coming together and helping one another. I remember everyone doing what was needed to protect our elderly. I remember a lot of bad decisions with regards to that. I remember .
quality comment francislenetti
Never ceases to amaze me how people who won’t be held responsible for decisions that are made all have 20/20 hindsight
Bingo
Hind sight? Lots of this stuff was mentioned from the start, and the people who dud so were told to shut up, were censored, lost or were threatened with the loss of their medical license, and a host of other shit.
Example 1 : If you dared played China/Wuhan lab you were labeled racist.
Example 2 : If you dated to say closing schools would hurt students you were accused of wanting to kill children en masse.
Nor hindsight.
I see what you did there! 😂
That's some bad syntax.
Bill is kinda a boomer moron nowadays. He used to be sharp and have a flexible viewpoint but now it's often simplistic and unbending.
Ok to be fair Colorado did it right with the cardboard cut outs in sports events , they had South Park characters which was hilarious!
😂 not to mention opened faster than many Republican States! Colorado was open that fall. After the vaccine we were fully open!
Why didn't you convince other blue states to follow your lead?
I saw one cut out of Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's. 😂
no cardboard cutouts at BLM protests
@michaelboulton6804 aww. Aren't you cute with your whataboutism.
Do you ever feel like you’re talking to the American wall
Bill, you and your viewers were the ones who fueled the panic.
Bill has shown better balance than most of his audience, and the Press.
ExCtly
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No, Bill Maher did not show any composure. He propagated allies during the pandemic. I will give him credit for saying that many of the things he wants believed he was now wrong about.
How soon people forget.
I remember the extra refrigeration NYC had to order to keep all the bodies.
It was just miles from where I live, so this video was hard to watch, even though I usually like watching Bill, not this time around. I lost my dad to COVID, which he contracted in hospital.
@@Hgood1I lost a good friend in the same situation, he went to the hospital from chest congestion and cough, he didn’t make it out of there.
@@Hgood1….Bill told a lot of obvious truths. Which part was hard to watch for you?
@@ozzie3963 He said he lost his dad to covid. Don’t be an a$$hole.
@@Soapandwater6 …maybe they lost their dad cause of the way we handled it. Truths like this will only make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Name calling tells more about you
Closing schools was never about the children, it was about protecting the teachers Bill. People like you still don't understand how many teachers we were losing when they were closing schools. Child care workers were more likely than the typical American worker to die of COVID in 2020, according to new research. Once we had HVAC systems installed in our schools and reopened the problem was solved.
Also the families of the kids who could have spread it to their parents, grandparents, and other relatives respectfully.
@@svscared There. Somebody finally said it. I don't know how that escapes Bill Maher.
FACTS. My elderly relatives that are teachers did not want to go back and die teaching, they drank all the koolaid. I gave my kids extra work at home,still do, they actually bored in public school. I would home school but daddy got to work y'all.
@@jeb909 He's never been married and has no children. I used to think he was funny, but he's really just an asshole now.
And boy did the teachers love getting paid for not working!
Bill you are the best, enough said!!!
As someone whose father died from COVID, as someone who is suffering from long COVID, as the son of scientists, as someone who lost two friends to COVID, I am disappointed in Mr. Maher's diminishing the early days of COVID. Just miles away at Columbia Presbyterian, they didn't even have enough room in their freezers for all the dead bodies. I'm glad Mr. Maher remained safe, but nothing about COVID was funny for me and my family. Also true that my family and many others may not have made it if it weren't for the checks the government cut. Those checks were lifesavers. I usually agree with Maher, but in this I don't.
100% agree with you. On this topic he is wrong.
died "with" not "from". Other factors were involved. O and my degree in health.
Sounds like you have a genetic susceptibility to cv. You should have stayed in and been given whatever support you need from the gov. Instead you expected the entire world to shut down just for you. And us dissenters were the selfish ones?
I agree with Bill on a lot of things, but he is incredibly out of touch with the real world. He lives in his own little LA millionaire, celebrity bubble, and believes his personal anecdotes and experiences are reflective of the world at large. I think he means well, but is a selfish egotistical twat who believes he's smarter than everyone else, especially younger people, therefore his opinion must always be correct, and he is immune to criticism. Even if he has no idea what tf he's talking about, which is a lot of the time. For example, he's never even had kids, but thinks he's an ultimate authority on how to raise them. He smugly criticizes parents on a weekly basis like he has all the answers, because he spent 30 seconds looking at some clearly bullshit misinformation on Twitter.
Dear good, my sorrow for your fathers passing. I think sheltering old and unhealthy people would have been prudent what could’ve been done without the overreactions. Very early on the science community. New Covid was not a danger to young healthy people. It was treated as a one size fits all problem/solution. That was a mistake. The old and unhealthy should’ve been sheltering. The young and healthy should not have been taking up space in the hospitals. The young and healthy should’ve been allowed to continue to work and go to school. The young and healthy certainly should not have been forced to take vaccines. Those overreactions cannot be disputed. There should’ve been a middle ground to protect your father and our old loved ones but the fear mongering for control power and profit by our government who is captured by pharmaceutical companies was literally running the world. We can never let that happen again Dr D
In the early stages of the pandemic, when death counts were rising and little was known about the disease, closing schools made sense. They simply stayed closed for too long. Calls to open back up came too soon, and turned the whole thing into a partisan argument, like everything else.
And DJT disbanded the Pandemic Response Team
Excellent statement.
@@AUTOPSY666 Not quite the way that went but hating Trump leads to false half-truths and such. It's a derangement thing.
@@williamturner4520 tell me how it happened, MAGA brain
@williamturner4520 Don't talk, just keep eating those paint chips.
The effects of Covid 19 could be eradicated by super spicy chicken wings, and a gigantic wolf mascot head counted as proper ppe.
Oh, yes, Bill is back in town.
And if we didn't do enough then you could have been sitting there bitching about how the government failed to do anything
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
He was bitching about that to begin with.
Nope. Always prefer the government to do nothing. Always.
there was no covid test to begin with duh
Well Trump's CDC screwed it up but we were offered tests from the World Heath Organization but Trump turned them down
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shipped testing kits to 57 countries. China had five commercial tests on the market 1 month ago and can now do up to 1.6 million tests a week; South Korea has tested 65,000 people so far. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in contrast, has done only 459 tests since the epidemic began. The rollout of a CDC-designed test kit to state and local labs has become a fiasco because it contained a faulty reagent. Labs around the country eager to test more suspected cases-and test them faster-have been unable to do so. No commercial or state labs have the approval to use their own tests. - February 20, 2020
In plain English, Trump Admin'n disbanded the NSC. National Security Council. As part of federal cuts savings against CDC.😊
Could've stopped at "covid"
Yes, there was. The full RNA profile was available right from the start of 2020. Unfortunately the only way to test was the full RNA test, which is slow and expensive. We didn't get useable lateral-flow tests for a long time.
Bleach treatment didn’t work so well for you
I remember taking my puppy outside , I was absolutely alone in a small park and suddenly a very old man came very close to me - like literally in my face and started yelling - why I am not wearing a mask ! He saw me out of window without a mask , put on his mask went outside , came to me and asked where is my mask . Stupidity has no borders!
Am I better off now than I was 4 years ago? Fuck yeah!
Okay the gloryhole "I wouldn't look into it" line is comedy gold!
A killer joke, on several levels.
I don't think many got the layers with that joke.
I wouldn't go poking around either.
@@RTC1655 Yeah Bill Marge about as funny as Stephen ColbertButtheadsLefty'slosers
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To be fair, Mr. Maher, hindsight is always 20/20, and I think you often forget that when it comes to COVID-19 (because he missed having his audiences during the pandemic) 🙄
reminds me of his clip about presentism...
Hindsight didn't seem to be 20/20 when Hannity, Trump, and the entire Whackospehere went into overdrive attacking Obama for 2 Ebola deaths.
You are right, "g.d.", but I think Bill was just over-reacting a bit to the original over-reacting, which points out how we can better handle the next one, no ?
A lot of people were saying this stuff real time.
EXACTLY!!
2020 was probably the worst of my life so far. The fact that all of that political nonsense was going on and there was no way to go out and escape it was maddening! I had the worst experience with the Unemployment agency I have ever had, and everytime things seemed to be getting better, it got worse, all thanks to COVID!
Bring back 2019 !!!!
If the World Health Organization declared it is an airborne virus sooner, a lot of time, energy, money and lives would have been saved.
Same deal with China and the CCP - They sat on their knowledge of covid while allowing international flights to export the virus for over a month.
‘After the fact’ jibberish. No one knew exactly what we were dealing with. It was scary, it was all unknown. The ‘better be safe than sorry’ approach was justified…and let’s not forget the countless number of people who actually did die from COVID or the ppl who are still suffering from long COVID. All in all…..It’s all a bit too easy to ridicule the measures taken at the time.
That's true, but Trump was the one who didn't want to do "better safe than sorry"
It was preplanned.
Bring back lockdowns!
Exactly if schools remained open and all our kids died then what. People were mad they have to deal with what teachers go though.......teaching unruly children.
@@tagalong8001 But not your idiocy; that could have been avoided by staying in school.
Poor Bill. During COVID -- he got bored up in his big secluded mansion. His personal assistants, chauffeurs, private chef / cuisine delivery staff all ended up inconveniencing him at some point during that time. What a damn shame! Bill suffered so much.
And, he couldn't get his weed. That was the hardest part for Bill. 😆
He couldn’t stand up on a stage and have people applaud him. Also, get over it. I changed the channel when he started in on Covid again for the 1000th time.
@debbiebiccum6302 Yet you cared enough to comment? What a saint you are!
even leftist jon stewart finally called it the wuhan flu!
Yea cause bills a douche
I love you, Bill ❤
This guy is awesome.
I'm a bit confused as to why Bill seems to be denouncing COVID vaccines. After all, people who had COVID were able to get it again, so "natural immunity" wasn't cutting it.
Well, there were a disproportionate amount of people who got major health complications from those vaccines. Pericarditis was one of the big ones, I'm still recovering from my 2nd bout thanks to the vaccine, which as it turns out barely helped improve immunity.
Unfortunately, the antibodies generated from the vaccine also seem to be short-lived. As for the comment above mine, there is a much greater risk of getting pericarditis from COVID than the vaccine
It's because Bill has had a longstanding issue with health stuff - not sure why, maybe the 'old hippie' in him. He isn't a full anti-vaxxer but flirts with the line quite a bit. And I don't get the whole desire for 'natural immunity' - that requires you to get it, suffer the effects and then (hopefully) make a full recovery with naturally-produced antibodies. But COVID isn't like chicken pox - getting it and getting it out of the way doesn't work well for something that, like the flu, evolves quickly and thus makes immunity (and vaccines) lag in effectiveness over time.
Pretty sure I got an early dose that didn't get properly diagnosed and we've never been sicker. A year later, after a few vaccines, we did get diagnosed, but I've had worse flus. I'd say get vaxxed if your area is getting hot, if only for the symptom relief.
@@Durzo1259 Uh huh. And you have had the exhaustive medical assessments to show that this condition (supposing you aren't just making this up whole cloth) is related to the vaccine (assuming you got it)? Cuz there are a lot of bots pushing this type of crap. If the problems (much less the 'sudden deaths') arose by the millions from the vaccines as is claimed, then I should see at least some people in my wider circle (almost all of whom are vaccinated) have issues/die, yet not a single one has had issues. Not one. Either we are all the luckiest people on Earth, or you are making it up.
Here in Australia: April 2020 - NSW Health allowed passengers from the Ruby Princess to disembark in Sydney despite knowing that test results, which would prove whether or not coronavirus was present among sick passengers, would be available within hours. Passenger just got into taxis and took off. Later we had the "Ruby Princess" infection clusters and 28 people dead as a direct result.
I _wish_ someone would do a study on the amount of people who possibly or were infected as a result of allowing that plane to disembark in Atlanta & shipping people all over our country & Canada
No. People died because they didn't have an immune system that knew how to deal with covid. Stop blaming humans for something natural, we are made of viruses.
Bill is brilliant
A man who doesn't pick sides right on
Come on, Bill.
We were all locked in our homes getting bombarded with opposing information. We didn't know what to do other than try to protect ourselves and our loved ones (most of us anyway). Whining that we made mistakes in the past is low hanging fruit.
And who pushed the panic on us? The bureaucrats who wargamed these over reactions in the first place without bringing in true medical professionals for the decision process as well as their sycophants in the media. Pfizer and their allies (Gates and Fauci) were a major part of this.
Fruit hanging so low, it's pretty much a potato.
And yet the information that opposed and turned out to be mostly correct, was systematically censored from your view. You should be angry about that.
@@moloney55 DUDE WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? BECAUSE JOE ROGAN TOOK IVERMECTION (ALONG WITH THOUSSSSSANDS OF DOLLARS OF OTHER MEDICINES) AND DIDNT DIE ! BECAUSE THE STRAIN KEPT MORPHING MAKING THE VACCINE LESS AFFECTIVE ?
THE ONLY PART I AGREE ON IS THE CLOSING OF SCHOOLS. THEY SHOULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT BETTER. I MEAN EVEN GOING TO SCHOOL AN COUPLE HOURS AN DAY, 3 DAYS AN WEEK, OUTSIDE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
ALSO THE LAB THEORY IS STILL NOT 100 PERCENT PROVEN. MAYBE IT DID COME FROM AN LAB. IT WOULD MAKE SENSE. WOULD ALSO MAKE SENSE IT CAME FROM AN BAT SOMEONE ATE. EITHER SEEMS COMPLETELY PLAUSIBLE.
ANYONE WHO THINKS THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS TRYING TO SEE IF THEY CONTROL US IS NUTS. THEY LITERALLY HAD US QUARANTINED WITH AN VAX CARD. WE GOT PAID TO STAY AT HOME. THEY CANCELED SCHOOLS. THEY CANCELED FLIGHTS. THEY CLOSED BUSINESSES. YET ONE DAY THEY JUST ENDED ALL OF IT. MAKES ZERO SENSE. THEY COULD HAVE JUST KEPT EXTENDING IT.
Dear js, I knew exactly what to believe. I believe my own logic in critical thinking skills I believe what I saw happening around me. I watched young healthy people get Covid, and have no symptoms better in a day. I personally got Covid. I was better in one weeks time I’m young I’m healthy. I watched an old person die from Covid because they had many comorbidities than I realized after speaking to folks from numerous hospitals the people that died from Covid we’re dying with Covid just like 99% of the deaths in hospital die with pneumonia. I believe my own. I trust the government zero
He’s so right! As a nurse who worked during Covid, I first got Covid when my immune system was compromised by everything I had to wear on my face. Got bronchitis which lead to Covid. It was insane.
...And then Biden mandated a vax on you frontline heroes - a vax that neither prevents infection or transmission.
Tyrannical.
I would vote for you Bill. we desperately need common sense in this country and humor.
He makes less common sense when he's stoned.... which is most of the time.
I thought the reason for keeping kids home was so infected adults didn't infect their kids who would go to school and infect other kids who would go home and infect their parents who would then die.
But even then, the vaccine didn’t prevent infection or prevent spread as we were told
@Zheshi14 Vaccines don't prevent spread. They prepare your immune system to fight the disease in advance.
If you study for a test, you still have to take the test. It just won't take as long and the results will be better.
Nobody ever claimed these vaccines would be 100%,,,,,they certainly reduced a lot of the spread@@Zheshi14
Here you go:Copilot
Certainly! Let’s delve into the impact of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States:
Lives Saved:
From the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign through the end of November 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented about 1.1 million deaths and 10.3 million hospitalizations in the United States1.
A study estimated that COVID-19 vaccinations prevented nearly 140,000 deaths in the U.S. by May 20212.
Even now, COVID-19 vaccines continue to save lives, and an estimate of the lives saved into 2022 would be even larger1.
Hospitalizations and Infections Averted:
Between December 12, 2020, and June 30, 2021, vaccines were estimated to have prevented 1.1 million hospitalizations and halted 14 million infections in the U.S.1.
By early March 2021, vaccination reduced the total number of new cases by 4.4 million, prevented approximately 0.12 million hospitalizations, and decreased the population infection rate by 1.34 percentage points3.
But did keeping kids home help prevent the spread?@@Zheshi14
I lost friends and extended family members from covid. Not elderly with health issues either.
Sorry for your losses.
My wife and 6 kids all died from covid, I live my life thinking about them every second of the day. 😔
All deaths are from covid.
@@hithere748hope you find solace
I'm sorry to hear of your loss. That proves to deniers that not only elderly people in bad health succumb to Covid. I always get mad when I hear idiots dismiss it as "just a cold". It is serious, and at the beginning we didn't know what the heck we were dealing with. My mother now will require oxygen for the rest of her life after complications with Covid.
New writers? That's the first time Bill has ever made me laugh!
Honest writers!
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" Were you better off 4 years ago" always refers to how you were doing economically......Billy boi
That's just Bill not wanting to P-off his Democrat friends too much.
If we haven't learned a thing from COVID, are we not still better off today than we were in March 2020? Mistakes were & are always made, but I'd rather be on the side that was safer than sorry, even though- as stated, mistakes were made, because nobody is perfect.
Bill is in his own bubble. I was so much better for years ago than I am now. My rent was half of what it is now cost of groceries weren’t so outrageous. The cost of living has doubled yet Florida still will not pay workers a livable wage. I’d love to rewind and go back to 2020!!,
Seeing "doctor" Esper _laughing_ at what happened during the Criminally negligent administration he gladly served in is gross AF.
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Bull shit! Dr. Fauci, run that show! There is no way to contain a virus! Biden opened the border and allowed covid infected people to flood the US, spreading the delta virus far and wide, and cases shot up quickly. Biden done, and nothing covid is still spreading. I have a friend that just got out of the hospital today 4/1/24!
I really need to see bill Maher debate Jon Stewart that’s gonna be the debate of the century
Bill has twice the brains JS has
According to Bill we should have basically done nothing. But because we can never ever know what would have happened had we done nothing he can never lose the argument. And also, according to Bill, there is only one country on the entire planet. No, wait, there is only person and his couple of rich buddies.
Hindsight is 2020 😉 I started as an RN when COVID started it was scary AF
Exactly.
Thank you, Andrew❤
All republicans will claim you were lying and just using the time to go tiktok videos
@@philwill0123there was a lot of that going on and everyone looked like they were loving the pandemic. you don't remember.
But they lied about who died and why.