Bill Maher: Apply Precision To The Pandemic
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I'm going sue that Maher motherfucker for stealing what I've been saying at the beginning of this "pandemic ". I'm beginning to suspect that he may be one of the lurkers, here.
Spot on. We all knew it was a crock of shit. Even from the beginning, most people were going to be fine. Instead we’ve completely wasted money in areas it was not needed. The vulnerable in care homes etc are still sitting ducks. Nothing has changed and it has all been theatre by the politicians.
One of my business will fold because of this, useless.
One of my business will fold because of this, useless.
Really cuts through all the BS on this one.
This "pandemic" demonstrated the great chasm between what science tells us and how policy is formed around it. Scientists have a function as do politicians. When scientists tells us that a disease has a survival rate of 99.98% with the majority of deaths coming from the old and obese, it's on politicians to govern effectively based on this information. The wrong way to govern is to lockdown nations. The right way to govern is not to mandate masking for all, but to strongly recommend it to the old and obese, and for the vaccination of these two groups. This has been repeated infinitum since the start of the pandemic. All of society shouldn't suffer just because you can't help stuffing your face with quarter pounders and donuts.
The pandemic was a war on freedom, a war on small businesses, a war on the young, and a war on the physically fit/healthy. It was a pandemic of the obese, which sadly encompasses the majority of the West today. If these folks were as frightened of lard as they were of this new flu, there wouldn't have been a pandemic. Covid would have virtually zero impact on generations of the past because previous generations weren't "big boned". Tough pill for some to swallow.
Future historians will recognize this.
Future historians will recognize this.
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No, it wasn't a war on all that. You have a persecution complex.
It was perhaps over-reaction, but done out of fear, the unknown, and a desire to not be on the watch if things got hugely out of control and enormous numbers of people died. The lockdowns did have an effect on slowing transmission of the disease -- we'll never know how bad things might have gotten, there is no parallel universe we can peek in on. Perhaps most of the victims would have been old or fat, but it's not easy to isolate old or fat people from the general population -- imagine the lawsuits!
The efforts went on too long -- the vaccines made it so that people who wanted protection could get it, and it's pointless to try to force people who don't want that protection to get it. If the issue is clogging up the health care system with unvaccinated covid cases, then bar the unvaxxed from covid care -- leave the hospitals free and available for people who need them who took appropriate precautions.
Maher is half right -- he's looking with perfect 20-20 hindsight. How easy to forget what it's like to confront the unknown, and to just not know how bad things might get. And usually it makes sense to plan for worst-case scenarios because sometimes the worst case happens!
Maher's a dude who makes a very good living from presenting shows to a largely liberal audience, while also fostering the idea that he's "unpredictable and unaligned and a free thinker". So he has to pick a non liberal position from time to time and rub it in his audience's face to remain "provocative and interesting".
Wow. The only thing historians will recognize is how entitled snowflakes get upset when they are even slightly inconvenienced.
I am not sure if you can call shutting down your small business like a restaurant or hair salon a slight inconvenience. More like a life altering event.
Last I checked, there is no right to own a successful business. The government will support you to make sure you have food and a place to stay. After that it's up to you.
And funny to see a bunch of people pushing completely ludicrous medical claims are suddenly pretending to care about precision.
If you're implying that there's a calculus, "Gee, I've been leaning too far left over the last three shows, I have to find something lefty to pick on this week", I sincerely doubt he keeps that kind of scorecard. He does tend to take pot shots at both left and right, and if he takes more shots at the right it's because the right tends to do more awful things. He makes fun of Democrats as losers, which they are, and weak and oblivious, which they are, and he targets Republicans for being hypocritical and mean-spirited and dangerous, which they are. He's pretty consistent in those messages, and it's not just kow-towing to his audience.
The guy claims friendship with Ann Coulter and Kelly Ann Conway, you think he'd do that just for ratings? I mean, I've read some pretty scuzzy, sleazy, awful activities between nominally consenting adults on this board, but that would go beyond any imaginable definition of defiling oneself for monetary compensation.
In which case, he can't be used as a symbol of the "rational leftie with a brain" by our local board righties.
He's just a dude w mixed political views who works as an entertainer. End of story.
