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.
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.
The liquor stores were the first business reopened bc doctors said if you don’t there will be a massive die off bc a true longtime addict can’t quit cold turkey or they die. Alcohol is worse than heroin.
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.
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!😮😅😊
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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* 🍹🤘🏽💙🇲🇽
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!
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.
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.
Bill Maher described covid times from his perspective, not from the perspective of all the people who actually died, and all the families that lost loved ones without having the chance of a proper good bye, nor the perspective of the hospitals stuff which were overwhelmed with infected people. So after Covid, Bill Maher learned that lockdowns were bad and vaccines mandates were inconvenient, not all the unnecessary death and trauma caused by all the irrational selfish people which made all way worse for every one.
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.
@@robertbeste He’s simply become a cheerleader for the “do your own medical research on the internet “ crowd. He knows nothing about medicine but has criticized the government, the medical research community all the way down to people wearing masks. He’s just a noisemaker promoting his brand and no one should listen to him on this topic.
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.
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!!,
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 😂
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.
There was a basic plan for a pandemic which is what was used in March of 2020 since we didn't know how to treat or prevent this disease. Remember, the government and general public were creating as we went. And a decision was made to err on the side of caution. My husband worked as a janitor in a small regional hospital (rural area located over an hour from a metropolitan area). Summary: Refrigerator trailer by the hospital's back door (wasn't to store food). ICU maxed out with comatose patients who were on ventilators from a disease that the medical staff knew little about; many of those who survived the ventilator treatment had multiple issues that will probably be lifelong. I was a teacher in a small rural school. Our principal happened to be a real scientist who was preparing us teachers for school shutdown about two weeks before all hell broke loose. Yes, we teachers were prepared for pandemic closure. I had materials printed and ready for students to take home. We were looking into online education. Our principal was already ordering Chromebooks and I was preparing a manual to go with the Chromebooks (I was the Technology Teacher). Result of Covid: Several of our students became ill and a teacher was hospitalized but survived; unfortunately, two of the grandparents died from Covid. A neighboring school had a child and a couple of teachers die as well as several parents and grandparents. Sorry, but schools needed to be closed as a precaution especially at the beginning (March 2020 until at least summer break). Scientists were trying to quickly come up with a cure or at least a treatment as well as a preventative. Remember the president at the time was pushing false treatments like injecting disinfectants or using UV light; our hospital was filled with Trump-followers who weren't masking or keeping their distance from others even though they were symptomatic. Yes, there were errors made. But the death toll especially before we had the Covid vaccine would easily have been TWICE or MORE fatalities if people were mingling as normal without distancing and without masks. Once there was vaccines even if only for adults as adults were most likely to suffer complications, I will agree that some schools stayed closed for too long (unless there was spiking in Covid cases or issues with the building's ventilation system). I think schools who did half of their days in the classroom and half days on Zoom so classes could be made smaller was a good idea. Our school has really large classrooms so students could easily be spaced out. Covid is a deadly AND debilitating disease. Since I already had lung issues I had to use extra precautions like other asthma, bronchitis, COPD, and other lung diseases. Then there are cancer and cardiac patients and those with Sjögren syndrome or other immunodeficiencies in which Covid infection would be devastating. So is it your opinion that we should have just gone about our normal activities and let many of those people die? You know, there were Republicans who said wearing masks were against our civil liberties so let's get everyone infected and let the strong survive.
Thank you so much❤ This is exactly what happened at my school. I was grateful for the closures to keep everyone safe.. I went back in Nov. 2020 to work 1:1 with students, testing for special ed. Some of the students lost grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Heartbreaking. From most of the comments, people seem to have selective memories, are self-centered, or are in denial. I appreciate you sharing your experience, as well as the facts~
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.
Regardless of your position on how the pandemic was handled, as an educator I see the impacts of COVID daily. The kids returned from "virtual learning" without the ability to control their emotions and behavior. Four years later they are still behind academically, and without the desire to learn. While there's been a trend in teachers leaving the industry for the past 15 years with a lack of undergrads entering educator programs, the proverbial shit is about to hit the fan. More and more teachers are quitting due to student behavior, coupled with lack of accountability and their replacements are also quitting. What's worse is we are simply passing these ill-equipped kids to the next grade level and ultimately we are graduating functionally illiterate and innumerate people that are incapable of critical thought.
I agree with you 100%. The majority of people have kids, and send them to school to be raised. Then want to bitch about not having enough say in what teachers teach and how those teachers try to control the classroom of obnoxious, pampered entitled little brats. Where I have some disagreement is that half this country is already incapable of critical thought. It is on display at any of Don the Con's rallies.
I love this callout. While it’s true that at-home learning stunted student learning, what if we found out that Covid had more disastrous long-term effects that we didn’t want to spread to kids? I mean, is it understandable that there was hesitation, not to mention self-preservation in case you okay school reopening, but then it comes out that there are long term risks? Can people not think things out, or is it because of Internet brain?
Yes, and democrats took phonetics out of public schools, and Generation Alpha can’t read. How easy will an illiterate generation be to transfer wealth from? and control? Unfortunately very.
I am very thankful my kid could go back in person in September 2020. Over the summer of 2020 with no camp, and being out of school since March….her mental health was starting to deteriorate. But my coworkers in Maryland….kids were out til like March 2021, and then it was a hybrid. I can only imagine how bending Baltimore city kids are from having zoom learning for a year +.
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
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
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
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 ?
This is why I watch You Bill, you cant possibly point out everything that is wrong in theses ways but you certainly package it well for knowledge and entertainment.
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.
if people like you had just minded your own business things would have been a lot easier. if you were so scared of maskless people then stay tf home. its insane how people are still beliving that stupid propaganda narrative after all the facts have been widely accepted that none of those stupid policies had any positive impact.
@@hithere748 Not upset anymore, neighbor, just baffled. I'm fully protected by all vaccines and that's all I can do. I also decided to leave the nursing profession earlier than I ever imagined. I loved my job and thought I'd do it until I died. The venom and threats from patients proved too much for me to carry on my shoulders, on top of everything else. Now I sound like an American school teacher! Best regards and thank you for responding ☺️
Dear dana, perhaps I can help with you’re being baffled. Young people under the age of 50 were not dying from Covid unless they had comorbidities. Those people made the right choice and not taking the vaccine as their potential vaccine side effects greatly outweighed any risk they had from Covid Further if an argument is made that vaccine stop the spread of Covid well, we know that was a lie perpetrated by our corrupt and captured government (reasons for the lies vary). I respect all decisions made by personal individuals after consultation w their primary trusted doctor. I hope this helps to clarify alternative views from your own. Success always! Dr D
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.
A lot of this type of rant just begs the question "and what was your solution?" Just ignore it and let it run rampant with the 'hope' it wouldn't be as bad as predicted? Take the school closure situation - sure the kids were more or less going to be ok from COVID so doing school from home wasn't great for them but what of the teachers? Little known fact, almost no teachers are kid-aged, and many are middle to old-aged, so even if the disease spreads quickly through the kiddie population without much incident, what is going to happen once it reaches the teachers/admin staff, likely over and over again? Should they just be forced to teach in person and say 'screw you, your life isn't that important anyway'? What was the 'easy' and immediate solution then? It's this type of binary thinking from Bill that gets me - what is your alternative? Because I can guarantee whatever your plan of action would have been would also have a LOT of problems too. Face it, there were few 'great' choices. All we can do is hope this can inform us about future crises.
@@jlev1028 Actually I didn't watch the video, I just read the comments. I don't watch his show either. I have seen clips on cable news occasionally though. So no it doesn't include me. I think he is a pompous jack4$$.
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.
Yeah, the one that I kinda winced at was his jab about natural immunity vs immunity acquired through vaccination. I mean sure, both do provide a good degree of immunity, but in order to gain natural immunity, you have to be exposed (become sick) to an illness *when you have no immunity*. At least with vaccination, your arm hurts for a bit, and you can tell your boss "Hey I feel like shit, I'm out today!". Plus, one of my former bosses was part of an antibody count study since he's a transplant recipient, and according to him, the antibody count of people who'd received vaccinations versus those who acquired natural immunity was pretty remarkable, in that receiving the vaccine and a booster provided better immunity. But, that's anecdotal evidence, so take it as you will.
Bingo. Vaccines worked. The risk of myocarditis occurs with even unvaccinated folks, but at higher rates. “Masks work”. Well, N95 masks are effective, but critics wanted to ignore that and run with emotion “We washed the mail”. At the time, we thought it could be transmitted through body fluids. Until we found out it didn’t, then we stopped. The horror
@@rlowethewitch8417Thing is, the science backs up your anecdote. There have been plenty of studies proving it. And who wants to risk dying to get the antibodies? And long COVID is hell... We're only starting to get an inkling of what that is.
WE'RE 80 YEARS OLD SHE USED TO RUN 50 MILES A WEEK IF THE COVID MODERNA SHE CAN BARELY WALK UP THE STREET HOW FAUCI RUINED OUR LIVES WHO IS THE HIGHEST PAID GOVERNMENT SLOB WHO KILLED MORE AMERICANS IN THE NAZIS THE RUSSIANS THE COMMIES
Did you forget the flight from China with American citizens on board flown to Travis AFB in California to save them all from the Covid outbreak there and make sure it arrived here as soon as possible?
Sure, all that stuff seems silly in retrospect. But at the time a lot of those things were being done, we had no idea what we were dealing with. We were washing mail because we had no idea how Covid spread, or how long the virus remained viable under what conditions. And we had absolutely no idea how to treat it. And we were watching people die in huge numbers in the countries it hit before us, as well as the first cities hit by it here. So at the time, it made sense to throw all the precautions we could at it in hopes of reducing the impact. I personally think a lot of that stuff dragged on far too long, but it made sense initially.
Ah yes, four years ago...the good ol' days when we were literally having fistfights over masks made in sweatshops and people were going to the grocery store looking like the government agents in E.T.
Let me share this Covid 19 Rag and Massacree: Dear Dr. Fauci, I got an ouchie. I caught a virus, stuck on my couchie. Refrigerator . . . I mostly ate 'er, so I go shopping, dressed like Darth Vader. We're quarantining, we're Netflix streaming, I am so sick of, this Facebook meming. We'll try to cope, yeah; not give up hope, yeah, but when it's over, AGORAPHOBIA!
The "are you better off now" question mainly refers to your personal economic status. It is not about covid. If you or someone you know died or suffered from covid or you are an HCI worker, that could have been an economic hardship as well, besides your suffering. Its true, over time, Trump said a some things he should not have said. But there are certified Trump haters, including you Bill, who will spin every word or scintilla of a sentence into a negative. Trump did not cause covid nor did he mandate lock downs, that was blue state governors for the most part. Covid is mostly over but not totally. Biden does not deserve accolades for that. People with plenty of money, you again Bill, don't have to worry about inflation, just disease, death and taxes. If you have an honest brain, you should be able to think about what any president actually did, good or bad. Talk is cheap, name calling is childish. What is important is this: Did the president issue mandates? Did he get the USA into long term costly wars with out some sort of exit strategy? I'm and old guy. I have lived through several presidents. I was age 7 when JFK was murdered. I remember the nation wide 55 MPH speed limit issued by Jimmy Carter as a claim that it saved gas, during rampant inflation he allowed by undoing Gerald Ford's price freezes. And gas went to over a dollar for the first time because of that. I personally saw it go up 2 cents per day as a young man as I drove 27 miles one way to work. George W. Bush gave us the useless Homeland security and extra long lines enduring air port searches that rarely yielded anything. Yeah, they got a few pocket knives and an occasional celebrity gun is suitcase. How many terrorists did they actually catch? Foolish and long term wars after 9/11. Yes sir. Why didn't Obama and Biden not end the war in Afghanistan after the navy seals killed Bin Laden during the week of prince William and Kate's wedding? Perhaps some high ranking officials were profiting from it? Obama's health care mandates. It was a back door subsidy for HCI and for wall street. Did he or Hillary care if you actually needed to buy it? Did they care if you were able to fit the expense into your family finances? Of course not.Again, they had plenty of money so every one else must find some way to pony up the premiums, period. Health insurance mandates originated in Massachusetts by their then governor Mitt Romney. Now we have electric car mandates on the horizon. Biden is on tape at multiple locations and crowds professing to eliminate fossil fuels during his administration. Is every country on the globe doing that? Are other countries stopping coal? Are the super wealthy gonna stop flying their private jets to climate summits and anywhere else they want to? Are they gonna stop telling the regular working citizen what a bunch of filthy polluters they are? Lastly, are those with a televised voice ever gonna stop with the continuous racism mantra? Deliberately working to divide the USA with constant special group demands? How about stopping the threat to democracy lies? And the malicious and ignorant "no one is above the law" lie. For those who hate Trump because he is a back talker, just keep on keeping on. Nothing I say or prove will change your mind, no matter how petty your reason is. I am not a member of any political party. I vote as an independent. And have voted both red and blue over the years. Can't go along with the blue dust bunnies ever again.
Bill used to allow his whole show to be broadcast on TH-cam 1hr long, just a year ago. Then he allowed only 4 or 5 clips available. Now he allows only his monologue and “overtime” clips on TH-cam 😂 I wonder why 😂 #OldManComplex
They were all brainwashed to think that, how did Jon Stewart put it, "a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili," instead of the obvious reality that the substandard CCP BSH-4 lab created it-- which was literally their only job. And all because Trump suggested it might be true, and people lost their minds over potential "anti-Asian bias," and have been living in stunning denial for 4 years repeating this inane seafood market children's fantasy, which has been shredded by facts. I loathe Trump, and most Republicans. But just because a republican, even Trump, says something, that doesn't make it automatically false. A broken clock, you know.
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!
We over reacted, Bill, because we weren’t being told the truth by an administration that was in political denial scrambling to cover their arses! And, if you recall, science was either being, rejected, ignored, demonized, or politicized! So yeah, we over reacted a tad!
the cdc was the one giving out all the info. fauci wasnt lying to save trump, he was lying to protect himself. the only actual science about covid we were getting was being censored online, which was the only place we were able to see it all.
Exactly. Trump was downplaying it, while desperate to get a vaccine in time to save his presidency, while enabling conspiracy theories to spread doubt about taking vaccines
Exactly. I loathe Trump, but he didn't write Dvorak's fraudulent letter, nor print it in the Lancet, nor lie on a grant application to the NIH about his research, nor operate a BSH-4 lab with shoddy known inadequate safety protocols, nor go on a barnstorming media tour vilifying anyone who suggested the obvious reality that the virus came from the lab a mile away that makes coronaviruses. It's been the most stunningly stupid 4 year fantasy. @@robertatkins9419
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.
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.
Proper way to ask this question is what are you better off the year before the pandemic which was approximately two years into trumps presidency or are you better off today and Joe Biden‘s economy with open borders with high crime with World War III on the verge of starting? The Democrat party left me. I did not leave them. I will say this because of policy nothing more Trump 2024.
Some cheap shots Bill on some edited memories. We had no idea about covid when it hit (how it was spread) and no vaccine. A million people died and our response was not perfect due to lack of good data.
I remember when it hit Italy first. They were running out of healthcare workers because they were all dying so quickly. they were lining people up in the hallways to die. There was no such thing as a covid test yet.
Not as simple as you describe it, Bill. Initially, no one knew how the virus was spread and we had no idea how deadly the pandemic could become. Absolutely, mistakes were made, serious mistakes were made, but your routine here stinks of 20/20 hindsight.
I am glad Bill touched on the fact that we still crowd farm animals together, often indoors which makes another pandemic, or at least a serious epidemic a lot more likely. Also, the standard overuse of antibiotics in factory farmed animal agriculture makes the threat of the development of a pathogen that no antibiotic will defeat only a matter of time.What could each of us do about it? Boycott animal products and switch to a plant based diet. It would also make a huge difference for climate change and our environment in general. Animal ag is the top cause of deforestation, habitat loss and biodiversity loss. That is the reason the Amazon rain forest was decimated by burning.
I didn't mention that animal ag is responsible for a huge amount of water pollution and ocean dead zones. It is inherently wasteful of our resources like fresh water and land. We could reduce land use by 75% by switching to a plant based food system. It would give us about 30 years to transition away from fossil fuels, accoring to a study I could cite. Just ask for the details.
The bird flu wiped out 50 million chickens in 2015 and since we didn't learn a damn thing from it it struck again in 2022-2023 which caused eggs to go sky high in price but it was Biden's not the farmers' fault according to some people (mainly rural Republicans)
@@someguy2135apparently you don’t understand how calorie DEFICIENT a plant-based diet is so in order to get everyone on it we would have to increase farmland immensely along with fertilizer and pesticide use. Animal agriculture provides nutrient-rich and calorie dense food on land unsuitable for crop farming. Nothing you said indicates you know anything about agriculture or have ever visited a farm.
@@lauriloo38c Calorie deficient? Besides the official position to the contrary by many prestigious nutrition organizations including the largest, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, just look at the documentary "The Game Changers" to see how a plant based diet fuels some of the top athletes in the world, including Olympic weight lifters, record holding strong man competitors, NFL starting linemen, and NBA starters. The trailer is here on TH-cam and has been viewed more than 18 million times.
Some guy I absolutely agree with you but they still haven't made a meat substitute that tastes like meat until they do it's like telling someone who's enjoying eating some ice cream 🍦 that it's going to give them cavities and health problems True but the person who's eating don't give a Dame about that because there enjoying the ice cream 🍦
only an out of touch person would call it a lethal virus... especially when talking about kids. covid deaths as far as kids are concerned are in single digits
Lethal to 3% of the people who contracted it. Children were least at risk. Teachers unions kept schools closed, and those kids will probably never recover from the education they missed out on.
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.
“Are we better now than 4 years ago?” What a vague and expansive question, that can’t be answered by a single individual. What a mind fuck politics is…
This might be Bill's most inaccurate New Rules ever. For instance he speaks to air quality in Canada, and he hand picks the Texas of Canada, never explaining which ideology is responsible for policy. He provides zero intel on the extensive list of where Canada outperforms the US, most notably in free and fair elections, and governance. The economic numbers he sites are mind-numbingly selective. Canada is ahead of the US in quality of life by almost every key measure, and global ranking. He completely ignores how Canada is the future compared to the US, relative to basic infrastructure, and access to education and upward mobility.
We did the 8pm howl. I’d go out for a walk, hear the howl and join in. There was a feeling of connection and some relief howling with unseen voices, all of us gone a little wild in our isolation.
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!
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?
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.
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Dispensaries too. The high tax business stayed
The liquor stores were the first business reopened bc doctors said if you don’t there will be a massive die off bc a true longtime addict can’t quit cold turkey or they die. Alcohol is worse than heroin.
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.
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 .
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.
Yep! I didn't understand all the whining 🤔
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.
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!😮😅😊
"Where's boeing when you need a door to fall off?"😂
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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 %
“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.
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
@@YouMissed1why? You don’t like being better off now than under (very much under) trump? You actually WANT a dictatorship?
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.
Didn’t bill tell everyone to shut up and be happy ? He should have taken his own advice in 2020.
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?
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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.
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.
The guy is brilliant. Never fails to get at least a dozen laughs from me per programme. Wish we had comedians of this calibre in Australia.
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.
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.
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.
All you said about COVID and symptoms is true for most every infection in the world.
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.
I had never been so happy to be a hairstylist, not having to stop working, wear a mask or take a jab in my life.
‘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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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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If you see me wearing a mask outdoors, its because my allergies are tearing me up, so give me a break.
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!
When did cynicism become comedy?
It didn't, Bill just uses his platform to beat his drums. He has lost sight of what it means to be funny.
It started in 2020.
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.
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!
Admit it. Y'all went nuts over COVID and you demonized those of us who didn't. You're re-writing history, here, mate.
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.
Bill Maher described covid times from his perspective, not from the perspective of all the people who actually died, and all the families that lost loved ones without having the chance of a proper good bye, nor the perspective of the hospitals stuff which were overwhelmed with infected people. So after Covid, Bill Maher learned that lockdowns were bad and vaccines mandates were inconvenient, not all the unnecessary death and trauma caused by all the irrational selfish people which made all way worse for every one.
Sounds like Bill stayed locked in his ivory tower while the rest of us "regular folks" suffered. Talk about tone-deaf.
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.
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.
@@robertbeste He’s simply become a cheerleader for the “do your own medical research on the internet “ crowd. He knows nothing about medicine but has criticized the government, the medical research community all the way down to people wearing masks. He’s just a noisemaker promoting his brand and no one should listen to him on this topic.
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.
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
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!!,
Come on, Bill.
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!!
Sarcasm is the lowest form of comedy.
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.
There was a basic plan for a pandemic which is what was used in March of 2020 since we didn't know how to treat or prevent this disease. Remember, the government and general public were creating as we went. And a decision was made to err on the side of caution.
My husband worked as a janitor in a small regional hospital (rural area located over an hour from a metropolitan area). Summary: Refrigerator trailer by the hospital's back door (wasn't to store food). ICU maxed out with comatose patients who were on ventilators from a disease that the medical staff knew little about; many of those who survived the ventilator treatment had multiple issues that will probably be lifelong.
I was a teacher in a small rural school. Our principal happened to be a real scientist who was preparing us teachers for school shutdown about two weeks before all hell broke loose. Yes, we teachers were prepared for pandemic closure. I had materials printed and ready for students to take home. We were looking into online education. Our principal was already ordering Chromebooks and I was preparing a manual to go with the Chromebooks (I was the Technology Teacher). Result of Covid: Several of our students became ill and a teacher was hospitalized but survived; unfortunately, two of the grandparents died from Covid. A neighboring school had a child and a couple of teachers die as well as several parents and grandparents.
Sorry, but schools needed to be closed as a precaution especially at the beginning (March 2020 until at least summer break). Scientists were trying to quickly come up with a cure or at least a treatment as well as a preventative. Remember the president at the time was pushing false treatments like injecting disinfectants or using UV light; our hospital was filled with Trump-followers who weren't masking or keeping their distance from others even though they were symptomatic.
Yes, there were errors made. But the death toll especially before we had the Covid vaccine would easily have been TWICE or MORE fatalities if people were mingling as normal without distancing and without masks.
Once there was vaccines even if only for adults as adults were most likely to suffer complications, I will agree that some schools stayed closed for too long (unless there was spiking in Covid cases or issues with the building's ventilation system). I think schools who did half of their days in the classroom and half days on Zoom so classes could be made smaller was a good idea. Our school has really large classrooms so students could easily be spaced out.
Covid is a deadly AND debilitating disease. Since I already had lung issues I had to use extra precautions like other asthma, bronchitis, COPD, and other lung diseases. Then there are cancer and cardiac patients and those with Sjögren syndrome or other immunodeficiencies in which Covid infection would be devastating.
So is it your opinion that we should have just gone about our normal activities and let many of those people die? You know, there were Republicans who said wearing masks were against our civil liberties so let's get everyone infected and let the strong survive.
very cogent info here.
Without a vaccine there wasn't a whole lot we could do early on. Masking and social distancing were effective
Thank you so much❤
This is exactly what happened at my school. I was grateful for the closures to keep everyone safe..
I went back in Nov. 2020 to work 1:1 with students, testing for special ed. Some of the students lost grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
Heartbreaking.
From most of the comments, people seem to have selective memories, are self-centered, or are in denial.
I appreciate you sharing your experience, as well as the facts~
Excellent explanation. I posted a comment above after reading yours.
Very well said 😊
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.
Regardless of your position on how the pandemic was handled, as an educator I see the impacts of COVID daily. The kids returned from "virtual learning" without the ability to control their emotions and behavior. Four years later they are still behind academically, and without the desire to learn. While there's been a trend in teachers leaving the industry for the past 15 years with a lack of undergrads entering educator programs, the proverbial shit is about to hit the fan. More and more teachers are quitting due to student behavior, coupled with lack of accountability and their replacements are also quitting. What's worse is we are simply passing these ill-equipped kids to the next grade level and ultimately we are graduating functionally illiterate and innumerate people that are incapable of critical thought.
I agree with you 100%. The majority of people have kids, and send them to school to be raised. Then want to bitch about not having enough say in what teachers teach and how those teachers try to control the classroom of obnoxious, pampered entitled little brats. Where I have some disagreement is that half this country is already incapable of critical thought. It is on display at any of Don the Con's rallies.
I love this callout. While it’s true that at-home learning stunted student learning, what if we found out that Covid had more disastrous long-term effects that we didn’t want to spread to kids? I mean, is it understandable that there was hesitation, not to mention self-preservation in case you okay school reopening, but then it comes out that there are long term risks?
Can people not think things out, or is it because of Internet brain?
A severely damaged generation will enact greater cost to the US in the long term than did the million + deaths of mostly elderly... Sad truth.
Yes, and democrats took phonetics out of public schools, and Generation Alpha can’t read. How easy will an illiterate generation be to transfer wealth from? and control? Unfortunately very.
I am very thankful my kid could go back in person in September 2020. Over the summer of 2020 with no camp, and being out of school since March….her mental health was starting to deteriorate. But my coworkers in Maryland….kids were out til like March 2021, and then it was a hybrid. I can only imagine how bending Baltimore city kids are from having zoom learning for a year +.
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
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
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
"Panicky, inefficient and stuck on stupid" is the Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite of our times!
100%
Christ is King
@@fuzzyschwartz ...stuck on stupid.
😆
Not left or right. Simply greed.
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.
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!!
Glad to see Bill is sticking with the elites.
...And sticking it to the elite.
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
😂
Talk about 'overreacting'. Bill Maher overreacts with hyperbole about things that happened during the pandemic.
When you're out of ideas backtrack like a Schaub ...
@@jjrr2273 ?
Someone missed the point about comparing now to 4 years ago
@@highstax_xylophones Someone missed the point about overreacting.
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.
This is why I watch You Bill, you cant possibly point out everything that is wrong in theses ways but you certainly package it well for knowledge and entertainment.
So glad about the raucous laughter - it informs me that Maher has just told a joke. The bewildered gaze and the dropped jaw are useful prompts too.
I personally had a great time during the pandemic. But I'm way too sad to celebrate because of all the people we lost.
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
The government did those things, not "we did" those things. People didn't chose to do that.
Right, many were misled. too many sheep.
If everyone (including you-know-who) would do something as simple as put on a mask for a while and then get vaccinated, life could have been easier.
if people like you had just minded your own business things would have been a lot easier. if you were so scared of maskless people then stay tf home. its insane how people are still beliving that stupid propaganda narrative after all the facts have been widely accepted that none of those stupid policies had any positive impact.
Are you upset with people who still aren't vaccinated?
@@hithere748 Not upset anymore, neighbor, just baffled. I'm fully protected by all vaccines and that's all I can do. I also decided to leave the nursing profession earlier than I ever imagined. I loved my job and thought I'd do it until I died. The venom and threats from patients proved too much for me to carry on my shoulders, on top of everything else. Now I sound like an American school teacher! Best regards and thank you for responding ☺️
Dear dana, perhaps I can help with you’re being baffled. Young people under the age of 50 were not dying from Covid unless they had comorbidities. Those people made the right choice and not taking the vaccine as their potential vaccine side effects greatly outweighed any risk they had from Covid Further if an argument is made that vaccine stop the spread of Covid well, we know that was a lie perpetrated by our corrupt and captured government (reasons for the lies vary). I respect all decisions made by personal individuals after consultation w their primary trusted doctor. I hope this helps to clarify alternative views from your own. Success always! Dr D
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.
A lot of this type of rant just begs the question "and what was your solution?" Just ignore it and let it run rampant with the 'hope' it wouldn't be as bad as predicted?
Take the school closure situation - sure the kids were more or less going to be ok from COVID so doing school from home wasn't great for them but what of the teachers? Little known fact, almost no teachers are kid-aged, and many are middle to old-aged, so even if the disease spreads quickly through the kiddie population without much incident, what is going to happen once it reaches the teachers/admin staff, likely over and over again? Should they just be forced to teach in person and say 'screw you, your life isn't that important anyway'? What was the 'easy' and immediate solution then? It's this type of binary thinking from Bill that gets me - what is your alternative? Because I can guarantee whatever your plan of action would have been would also have a LOT of problems too. Face it, there were few 'great' choices. All we can do is hope this can inform us about future crises.
Im sure Bill would be volunteering at the school to fill in for sick teachers. (sarcasm)
Well said!
Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so😅
Sh!T New Rule. Sorry Bill, missed the mark on this one
When Bill says “we’re a stupid country, that’s what we are” I think what he actually means to say is “that’s what you all are”.
While the truth is, that's just what he and his party is.
Yes if you are watching him.
@@ThePhoenixcompaniesThat includes you too, right?
@@jlev1028 Actually I didn't watch the video, I just read the comments. I don't watch his show either. I have seen clips on cable news occasionally though.
So no it doesn't include me. I think he is a pompous jack4$$.
@@jlev1028 Nope I just read the comments. Never watch his show. I have seen clips on cable news but that's it.
I don't care for him or his attitude.
NY recommending Glory Holes is the funniest part of the clip!😂😂😂
Don't remember that at the time.
The health authorities in British Columbia publicized that.
The problem was that they had already closed the glory holes.😂😂😂😂😂
liberals are the worst.
When he said don't look into it...he wasn't lying LMAO 🤣🤣
Bill visits them often.
@@Futuretense101well yeah you will get a poke in the eye. That would ruin the whole experience.
Gotta give Trump credit for saying how it just did go away,
He was right about that.
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
2:20 "Where's Boeing when you need a door to fall off?" The best part of the entire rant. Much of what else he said was debatable.
Debatable? How? Pure facts are kinda hard to argue.
@@vasil12361 um...COVID tests weren't a thing in March 2020. How about that?
Yeah, the one that I kinda winced at was his jab about natural immunity vs immunity acquired through vaccination. I mean sure, both do provide a good degree of immunity, but in order to gain natural immunity, you have to be exposed (become sick) to an illness *when you have no immunity*. At least with vaccination, your arm hurts for a bit, and you can tell your boss "Hey I feel like shit, I'm out today!".
Plus, one of my former bosses was part of an antibody count study since he's a transplant recipient, and according to him, the antibody count of people who'd received vaccinations versus those who acquired natural immunity was pretty remarkable, in that receiving the vaccine and a booster provided better immunity. But, that's anecdotal evidence, so take it as you will.
Bingo. Vaccines worked. The risk of myocarditis occurs with even unvaccinated folks, but at higher rates.
“Masks work”. Well, N95 masks are effective, but critics wanted to ignore that and run with emotion
“We washed the mail”. At the time, we thought it could be transmitted through body fluids. Until we found out it didn’t, then we stopped. The horror
@@rlowethewitch8417Thing is, the science backs up your anecdote. There have been plenty of studies proving it. And who wants to risk dying to get the antibodies? And long COVID is hell... We're only starting to get an inkling of what that is.
Who thinks we over reacted to Covid? Applause…..
Yeah, I hear that a lot from survivors.
Yeah, that would be over 98% of the people who got it. Survival of the fittest, it's how things work on this planet. Look it up.
We didn't over react..we did the best that we could with limited knowledge of the virus. And the anti mask anti vaxxers were not the good guys
WE'RE 80 YEARS OLD SHE USED TO RUN 50 MILES A WEEK IF THE COVID MODERNA SHE CAN BARELY WALK UP THE STREET HOW FAUCI RUINED OUR LIVES WHO IS THE HIGHEST PAID GOVERNMENT SLOB WHO KILLED MORE AMERICANS IN THE NAZIS THE RUSSIANS THE COMMIES
Did you forget the flight from China with American citizens on board flown to Travis AFB in California to save them all from the Covid outbreak there and make sure it arrived here as soon as possible?
trump had dismantled the gov't's pandemic preparedness program.
He also was called xenophobic for shutting down travel from China. By who???
Sure, all that stuff seems silly in retrospect. But at the time a lot of those things were being done, we had no idea what we were dealing with. We were washing mail because we had no idea how Covid spread, or how long the virus remained viable under what conditions. And we had absolutely no idea how to treat it. And we were watching people die in huge numbers in the countries it hit before us, as well as the first cities hit by it here. So at the time, it made sense to throw all the precautions we could at it in hopes of reducing the impact.
I personally think a lot of that stuff dragged on far too long, but it made sense initially.
I see at least one person a day, all alone, wearing a mask. Want to talk about silly?
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.”
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!
Ah yes, four years ago...the good ol' days when we were literally having fistfights over masks made in sweatshops and people were going to the grocery store looking like the government agents in E.T.
Let me share this Covid 19 Rag and Massacree: Dear Dr. Fauci, I got an ouchie. I caught a virus, stuck on my couchie. Refrigerator . . . I mostly ate 'er, so I go shopping, dressed like Darth Vader. We're quarantining, we're Netflix streaming, I am so sick of, this Facebook meming. We'll try to cope, yeah; not give up hope, yeah, but when it's over, AGORAPHOBIA!
😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
I still have 500 rolls of toilet paper which I invested in poorly for the future of my family and my society all I can say is don't wipe it on me
And who's fault is that? Was it Republicans telling you to wear a mask when you walk into a restaurant but pull it down to eat?
Not sure why today was the day that Bill decided to bring up his old gripe with the Pandemic. Old man cant let things go like he used to
That's an offensive stereotype. For shame
The "are you better off now" question mainly refers to your personal economic status. It is not about covid. If you or someone you know died or suffered from covid or you are an HCI worker, that could have been an economic hardship as well, besides your suffering. Its true, over time, Trump said a some things he should not have said. But there are certified Trump haters, including you Bill, who will spin every word or scintilla of a sentence into a negative.
Trump did not cause covid nor did he mandate lock downs, that was blue state governors for the most part. Covid is mostly over but not totally. Biden does not deserve accolades for that. People with plenty of money, you again Bill, don't have to worry about inflation, just
disease, death and taxes.
If you have an honest brain, you should be able to think about what any president actually did, good or bad. Talk is cheap, name calling is childish. What is important is this: Did the president issue mandates? Did he get the USA into long term costly wars with out some sort of exit strategy?
I'm and old guy. I have lived through several presidents. I was age 7 when JFK was murdered. I remember the nation wide 55 MPH speed limit issued by Jimmy Carter as a claim that it saved gas, during rampant inflation he allowed by undoing Gerald Ford's
price freezes. And gas went to over a dollar for the first time because of that. I personally
saw it go up 2 cents per day as a young man as I drove 27 miles one way to work.
George W. Bush gave us the useless Homeland security and extra long lines enduring air port searches that rarely yielded anything. Yeah, they got a few pocket knives and an occasional celebrity gun is suitcase. How many terrorists did they actually catch?
Foolish and long term wars after 9/11. Yes sir. Why didn't Obama and Biden not end
the war in Afghanistan after the navy seals killed Bin Laden during the week of prince William and Kate's wedding? Perhaps some high ranking officials were profiting from it?
Obama's health care mandates. It was a back door subsidy for HCI and for wall street.
Did he or Hillary care if you actually needed to buy it? Did they care if you were able to fit the expense into your family finances? Of course not.Again, they had plenty of money so every one else must find some way to pony up the premiums, period. Health insurance mandates originated in Massachusetts by their then governor Mitt Romney.
Now we have electric car mandates on the horizon. Biden is on tape at multiple locations and crowds professing to eliminate fossil fuels during his administration. Is every country on the globe doing that? Are other countries stopping coal? Are the super wealthy gonna stop flying their private jets to climate summits and anywhere else they want to? Are they gonna stop telling the regular working citizen what a bunch of filthy polluters they are?
Lastly, are those with a televised voice ever gonna stop with the continuous racism mantra? Deliberately working to divide the USA with constant special group demands? How about stopping the threat to democracy lies? And the malicious and ignorant "no one is above the law" lie.
For those who hate Trump because he is a back talker, just keep on keeping on. Nothing I say or prove will change your mind, no matter how petty your reason is. I am not a member of any political party. I vote as an independent. And have voted both red and blue over the
years. Can't go along with the blue dust bunnies ever again.
Bill used to allow his whole show to be broadcast on TH-cam 1hr long, just a year ago. Then he allowed only 4 or 5 clips available. Now he allows only his monologue and “overtime” clips on TH-cam 😂 I wonder why 😂 #OldManComplex
I pay 8 $ a month for HBO MAX, it not that tough out here .
Imagine being mad at the response to Covid and not the people responsible for creating it……
They were all brainwashed to think that, how did Jon Stewart put it, "a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili," instead of the obvious reality that the substandard CCP BSH-4 lab created it-- which was literally their only job. And all because Trump suggested it might be true, and people lost their minds over potential "anti-Asian bias," and have been living in stunning denial for 4 years repeating this inane seafood market children's fantasy, which has been shredded by facts. I loathe Trump, and most Republicans. But just because a republican, even Trump, says something, that doesn't make it automatically false. A broken clock, you know.
I'm mad at both. The evil people that created it, and the morons that made up rules just to make it look like they were "on it"
You believe that people created it?? Wow.
People in government certainly created the response to covid, which was a total failure. Its time to hold them accountable stsrting w mr fauci.
@@WorldifySanity Ummm.... That's what a lab leak would imply Crispy smh.
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 called the bull shit 4 years ago. Zero shots. Zero regrets. Trump 2024
We over reacted, Bill, because we weren’t being told the truth by an administration that was in political denial scrambling to cover their arses! And, if you recall, science was either being, rejected, ignored, demonized, or politicized! So yeah, we over reacted a tad!
the cdc was the one giving out all the info. fauci wasnt lying to save trump, he was lying to protect himself. the only actual science about covid we were getting was being censored online, which was the only place we were able to see it all.
Exactly. Trump was downplaying it, while desperate to get a vaccine in time to save his presidency, while enabling conspiracy theories to spread doubt about taking vaccines
You're right to say that we weren't being told the truth, but you're completely wrong to blame the former president for it.
Exactly. I loathe Trump, but he didn't write Dvorak's fraudulent letter, nor print it in the Lancet, nor lie on a grant application to the NIH about his research, nor operate a BSH-4 lab with shoddy known inadequate safety protocols, nor go on a barnstorming media tour vilifying anyone who suggested the obvious reality that the virus came from the lab a mile away that makes coronaviruses. It's been the most stunningly stupid 4 year fantasy. @@robertatkins9419
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.
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.
Bill is brilliant
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.
Proper way to ask this question is what are you better off the year before the pandemic which was approximately two years into trumps presidency or are you better off today and Joe Biden‘s economy with open borders with high crime with World War III on the verge of starting? The Democrat party left me. I did not leave them. I will say this because of policy nothing more Trump 2024.
Exactly, Policy always 'trumps' personality. Does anyone still recognize the Dem Party right now ?
Some cheap shots Bill on some edited memories. We had no idea about covid when it hit (how it was spread) and no vaccine. A million people died and our response was not perfect due to lack of good data.
Hey!
I remember when it hit Italy first. They were running out of healthcare workers because they were all dying so quickly. they were lining people up in the hallways to die. There was no such thing as a covid test yet.
Our cdc normally goes into overdrive when a virus hits. We don't deny the virus exist. But yes social distancing and masking were necessary.
Bill Maher is getting front getting in front of all this this s*** is getting deep someone get me a ladder
I would like to see John Stewart Debate Bill Maher.
On what topic? They are both establishment elitists, so what would be the point?
Not as simple as you describe it, Bill. Initially, no one knew how the virus was spread and we had no idea how deadly the pandemic could become. Absolutely, mistakes were made, serious mistakes were made, but your routine here stinks of 20/20 hindsight.
I am glad Bill touched on the fact that we still crowd farm animals together, often indoors which makes another pandemic, or at least a serious epidemic a lot more likely. Also, the standard overuse of antibiotics in factory farmed animal agriculture makes the threat of the development of a pathogen that no antibiotic will defeat only a matter of time.What could each of us do about it? Boycott animal products and switch to a plant based diet. It would also make a huge difference for climate change and our environment in general. Animal ag is the top cause of deforestation, habitat loss and biodiversity loss. That is the reason the Amazon rain forest was decimated by burning.
I didn't mention that animal ag is responsible for a huge amount of water pollution and ocean dead zones. It is inherently wasteful of our resources like fresh water and land. We could reduce land use by 75% by switching to a plant based food system. It would give us about 30 years to transition away from fossil fuels, accoring to a study I could cite. Just ask for the details.
The bird flu wiped out 50 million chickens in 2015 and since we didn't learn a damn thing from it it struck again in 2022-2023 which caused eggs to go sky high in price but it was Biden's not the farmers' fault according to some people (mainly rural Republicans)
@@someguy2135apparently you don’t understand how calorie DEFICIENT a plant-based diet is so in order to get everyone on it we would have to increase farmland immensely along with fertilizer and pesticide use. Animal agriculture provides nutrient-rich and calorie dense food on land unsuitable for crop farming. Nothing you said indicates you know anything about agriculture or have ever visited a farm.
@@lauriloo38c Calorie deficient? Besides the official position to the contrary by many prestigious nutrition organizations including the largest, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, just look at the documentary "The Game Changers" to see how a plant based diet fuels some of the top athletes in the world, including Olympic weight lifters, record holding strong man competitors, NFL starting linemen, and NBA starters. The trailer is here on TH-cam and has been viewed more than 18 million times.
Some guy I absolutely agree with you but they still haven't made a meat substitute that tastes like meat until they do it's like telling someone who's enjoying eating some ice cream 🍦 that it's going to give them cavities and health problems True but the person who's eating don't give a Dame about that because there enjoying the ice cream 🍦
Only an out of touch old person would say missing school was worse than a lethal virus
Lethal is a key word
only an out of touch person would call it a lethal virus... especially when talking about kids. covid deaths as far as kids are concerned are in single digits
for some children, staying home = beating, incest.
You probably thinks it's better than covid...
Lethal to 3% of the people who contracted it. Children were least at risk. Teachers unions kept schools closed, and those kids will probably never recover from the education they missed out on.
you drunk all the koolaid.....
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.
And TH-cam STILL blocks half the sane comments on the subject
Bill is talking of not only the USA sorry, but the rest of us in the world!
“Are we better now than 4 years ago?” What a vague and expansive question, that can’t be answered by a single individual. What a mind fuck politics is…
Definitely more expensive.
The answer is no. Trump 2024 🇺🇸
No question is universal but except for people with jobs where they could zoom we were all unequivocally worse 4 years ago than we are now
@@dishmanw Something you can say every four years unless we are in a depression
@@HankSemoreButzYes. Absolutely NO Trump in 2024. He’ll be hanging out in the pokey anyway with his little buddies in the choir.
This might be Bill's most inaccurate New Rules ever. For instance he speaks to air quality in Canada, and he hand picks the Texas of Canada, never explaining which ideology is responsible for policy. He provides zero intel on the extensive list of where Canada outperforms the US, most notably in free and fair elections, and governance. The economic numbers he sites are mind-numbingly selective. Canada is ahead of the US in quality of life by almost every key measure, and global ranking. He completely ignores how Canada is the future compared to the US, relative to basic infrastructure, and access to education and upward mobility.
We did the 8pm howl. I’d go out for a walk, hear the howl and join in. There was a feeling of connection and some relief howling with unseen voices, all of us gone a little wild in our isolation.
only gays and losers did that. You're both
I never did that bullshit 😂 I was too busy knowing all of you were being played.