When Covid hit four years ago, we did a lot of stupid things - because America never reacts to a crisis, it only overreacts.
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@NWPaul722 ай бұрын
Let's not forget, someone decided in 2018 that a pandemic preparedness program was a waste of money and scrapped it 😀👍
@timmmahhhh2 ай бұрын
Thank you for remembering.
@CaneFu2 ай бұрын
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.
@user-lh4ry4kg9u2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for reminding us.
@someguy21352 ай бұрын
Hint- His last name starts with T and rhymes with rump!
@jjrr22732 ай бұрын
rocket science at its finest ... its Holy Week for many, buy a bible bruh?
@spaceknight7932 ай бұрын
Only extroverts “suffered” mentally from the shut-ins. Introverts were having a BLAST.
@dparky16272 ай бұрын
Yeah, I was training for that my whole life.
@339gabriel2 ай бұрын
Ha! I actually agree with you here .
@plankingplanet2 ай бұрын
Yep it was awesome!
@Durzo12592 ай бұрын
Lockdown didn't even change my way of life.
@annehurst21722 ай бұрын
Lockdown meant I didn't have deal with ANYBODY(except delivery folks). Fabulous! Loved the day drinking, lol.
@johndoe-dl6qoАй бұрын
"Where's boeing when you need a door to fall off?"😂
@grahamc3963Ай бұрын
The cardboard audiance was insane I forgot about that.
@brendaschouten-beckett6448Ай бұрын
I thought that’s what they did at Hillary Clinton rallies.
@lumpheadthumpАй бұрын
@@brendaschouten-beckett6448She doesn’t have rallies, so you’re stupid on more than one level.
@darcylass2 ай бұрын
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.
@gretcheneger36902 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing and also for reminding people how horrible it was and the unknown, especially for the healthcare workers
@niklastorshagen63652 ай бұрын
Word!
@sub-zero7102 ай бұрын
Must have also been hard for you that your jobs were being politicized by the right.
@MidlifeCrisisTactical2 ай бұрын
This!
@danatate88032 ай бұрын
Well said!
@dangraesser53412 ай бұрын
The one store that didn't close during covid was the liquor store!
@dparky16272 ай бұрын
Can I drink enough liquor so as to pickle myself enough that COVID nopes on past me?
@brentvfreiberger2 ай бұрын
Essential service.
@pathof74942 ай бұрын
And even the grocery stores had almost all booze at a discount!
@dianaberrios36912 ай бұрын
😂
@DougBurgum4VP2 ай бұрын
Dispensaries too. The high tax business stayed
@zz4499442 ай бұрын
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.
@DawnWatch2 ай бұрын
A surfer in Los Angeles out on the water alone on his board got $1,000 ticket when he came in.
@meowy47202 ай бұрын
Restaurants are still using COVID as an excuse for shitty service
@TheBrothergreenАй бұрын
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.
@meowy4720Ай бұрын
@@TheBrothergreen WTF are you even saying
@TheBrothergreenАй бұрын
@@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.
@mdlm18122 ай бұрын
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!
@WestEndVideos2 ай бұрын
1.8 million people died from COVID-19. I was working in NYC. The epicenter of Covid. This was BAD! Rather have a government overreact to save lives than the contrary. This rant from Bill has become old and tired.
@thefanwithoutaface81052 ай бұрын
And you're an idiot if you actually believe that crap. Multiple studies revealed that people reported to die from Covid actually die while they had it
@DougBurgum4VP2 ай бұрын
No they died with covid.
@RM-jb2bv2 ай бұрын
I bet you think BLM riots actually SLOWED the spread.
@PokeySoggybottom2 ай бұрын
@@DougBurgum4VP Check out the Excess Deaths measure. It strongly suggests that the number of covid deaths was actually significantly more than reported.
@AntonioRivera282 ай бұрын
those numbers have long been debunked. they counted motorcycle deaths as covid deaths. and people seriously never learn that when you sacrifice freedom for security you lose both. the pro overreaction people are the bad guys. history is not being well to them
@jamesheuer51392 ай бұрын
“If you don’t know what a glory hole is, don’t look into it”!😂😂😂
@dannymcdermott55492 ай бұрын
That's a good way to get your eye put out!
@openyoureyes909jones62 ай бұрын
I was looking for love in all the wrong places....
@kendomyers2 ай бұрын
Amazing joke One for the ages
@KatieSmith555 күн бұрын
I didn't know what it was, but without looking it up, I think I do now.
@yonatanmillerАй бұрын
Ironically, Iran's attack on Israel was the first direct flight between the two countries since 1979
@richardschrom80122 ай бұрын
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.
@stoppin2look2 ай бұрын
Hindsight is "20-20".
@wowrada2 ай бұрын
Yeah cause at that time Data from the spanish flu suggested it was not so bad of an idea...
@jaimhaas51702 ай бұрын
Most of them R still clueless.
@AshleyBidensBathTimeАй бұрын
@@stoppin2look Apparently common sense is no longer common 😂
@philg4116Ай бұрын
@@stoppin2look For you, of course, but Maher was a skeptic from the outset.
@jimw16152 ай бұрын
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!!!
@TunesGS572 ай бұрын
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.
@rudya41042 ай бұрын
Yes. 🙌🏽. I thought the same thing.
@TunesGS572 ай бұрын
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.
@wardenwilson67252 ай бұрын
I like when Bill has to remind people, "you can clap now".
@williamjohnson51612 ай бұрын
@@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!😮😅😊
@teacherguy50842 ай бұрын
Bill, easy to laugh now, you survived and so did I. We closed the schools and I (a high school teacher in a poor community with many, many multigenerational households where grandparents or great aunts take care of the kids because parents both work two or more jobs) still had 4 students lose 7 family members - and those are just who I happened to learn about - for all I know there were 10 times as many, because people didn't talk about it. We don't know how bad the pandemic would have been if we didn't close the schools, wear masks, etc., but the countries that took serious actions did far better than did we. Consider Vietnam, with a death rate about 1/7th that of the U.S. The people who died AREN'T HERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. So no big deal, right? No. In 2022 the World Health Organization estimated 14.9 million people had died of Covid worldwide. That is roughly 1 out of every 500 people in the world. In the US we've had over a million deaths from Covid - roughly 1 out of every 340 residents. By comparison, auto accidents kill 40,000 US residents per year, or 1 out of 8500 residents. So Covid killed as many people in about 2 years as car accidents kill in 25 years.
@azishappy20352 ай бұрын
Thank you, teacherguy❤ I'm a school psychologist, and remember so many students losing loved ones. It was heartbreaking. And thanks for the stats to put it into perspective for the mathematically-challenged.
@reggienaidoo65142 ай бұрын
I am from South Africa, I remember fighting for my life during covid. I had the privilege of being in a private hospital. There were many people close to me that lost their lives.
@justinklenk2 ай бұрын
THANK YOU for speaking some basic, common sense; and for pointing out the facts of the matter that should be quite obvious. 👍
@BlueNumber12 ай бұрын
Vietnam has 1/4th the population of the U.S so by default will have 1/4th as many deaths.. Americans are diabetic and obese which explains the rest. U.S. states on opposite ends of policy yielded similar results as well so... Yeah. Go get your 11th stinger though hopefully be afraid enough to get a 12th too.
@svscared2 ай бұрын
Completely agree. I'm getting super tired of hearing him constantly rant about this because he was inconvenienced for a rather short period of time.
@SaintMartins2 ай бұрын
Wait...what ? Bill spent 9 minutes trashing the entire covid ordeal as an overblown event, then at the end Bill 'craps' on Trump for disregarding it ? It seems like they both have the same opinion in common. LOL
@ttuny1412Ай бұрын
I seem to remember Trump wanted to restrict people coming in from China and the Dems going nuts. Telling us not to worry about it.
@josh_finalАй бұрын
Ikr
@jeromemook5817Ай бұрын
He probably did not have a solid closer, so he pandered back to his reliable Trump bashing to go out on a free TDS laugh from the crowd.
@kenmcbreairty7878Ай бұрын
Exactly. Trump was right. It did just go away. I haven't been sick in over 2 yrs. Had a mild cold for a couple days
@jlev1028Ай бұрын
Ignoring a pandemic and enacting tyrannical decrees in an overblown attempt to contain it are both terrible reactions
@mangymakoАй бұрын
Not all of us gave into all of this nonsense. And any push back caused life altering harm to the people questioning this insanity.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
We really got to see the state of free speech in this country.
@JuandeFucaU2 ай бұрын
can't deal with an applause break after every single joke.
@turgonnaish2 ай бұрын
The seals clapping
@wynonasbigbrowndragon61212 ай бұрын
Funny, Bill can't deal with that applause not happening
@Tijuanabill2 ай бұрын
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.
@leeg84612 ай бұрын
It does seem a bit forced.
@Gary-And-His-Demons2 ай бұрын
@@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!!!
@joralemonvirgincreche2 ай бұрын
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.
@nojustno33312 ай бұрын
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?
@someguy21352 ай бұрын
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.
@duaadi2 ай бұрын
You don’t understand comedy
@someguy21352 ай бұрын
@@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.
@starshake89982 ай бұрын
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.
@stephensmith3116Ай бұрын
I’d love for Bill to be the moderator at the Trump/Biden debate!
@FASTRACKFARMАй бұрын
OMG, That's brilliant!
@prodigalpriest24 күн бұрын
I'd pay money to be front and center of that.
@gen_xecutioner2 ай бұрын
Let’s not forget how some networks ran death counters, which suddenly ceased on January 20, 2021.
@MrTwofishes21 күн бұрын
It's funny the clip of Trump saying it's going to disappear like a miracle cause that's what happened lol
@OpEditorial2 ай бұрын
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.
@michaelrobert44992 ай бұрын
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.
@brentmason67822 ай бұрын
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!
@sdbelland2 ай бұрын
💯
@OpEditorial2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@daviegriffin35392 ай бұрын
BiLL won't stop his, I was right about covid, crap. How many shows & podcasts will Maher squeeze that BiT in? 🤔 🤪 *Cheers 🍻 from **#CancúnMéxico* 🍹🤘🏽💙🇲🇽
@Hgood12 ай бұрын
As someone whose father died from COVID, as someone who is suffering from long COVID, as the son of scientists, as someone who lost two friends to COVID, I am disappointed in Mr. Maher's diminishing the early days of COVID. Just miles away at Columbia Presbyterian, they didn't even have enough room in their freezers for all the dead bodies. I'm glad Mr. Maher remained safe, but nothing about COVID was funny for me and my family. Also true that my family and many others may not have made it if it weren't for the checks the government cut. Those checks were lifesavers. I usually agree with Maher, but in this I don't.
@gerryst-aubin58772 ай бұрын
100% agree with you. On this topic he is wrong.
@chillones95742 ай бұрын
died "with" not "from". Other factors were involved. O and my degree in health.
@sdrawkcabUK2 ай бұрын
Sounds like you have a genetic susceptibility to cv. You should have stayed in and been given whatever support you need from the gov. Instead you expected the entire world to shut down just for you. And us dissenters were the selfish ones?
@jeffreycharles42112 ай бұрын
I agree with Bill on a lot of things, but he is incredibly out of touch with the real world. He lives in his own little LA millionaire, celebrity bubble, and believes his personal anecdotes and experiences are reflective of the world at large. I think he means well, but is a selfish egotistical twat who believes he's smarter than everyone else, especially younger people, therefore his opinion must always be correct, and he is immune to criticism. Even if he has no idea what tf he's talking about, which is a lot of the time. For example, he's never even had kids, but thinks he's an ultimate authority on how to raise them. He smugly criticizes parents on a weekly basis like he has all the answers, because he spent 30 seconds looking at some clearly bullshit misinformation on Twitter.
@breakthroughwithdr.dАй бұрын
Dear good, my sorrow for your fathers passing. I think sheltering old and unhealthy people would have been prudent what could’ve been done without the overreactions. Very early on the science community. New Covid was not a danger to young healthy people. It was treated as a one size fits all problem/solution. That was a mistake. The old and unhealthy should’ve been sheltering. The young and healthy should not have been taking up space in the hospitals. The young and healthy should’ve been allowed to continue to work and go to school. The young and healthy certainly should not have been forced to take vaccines. Those overreactions cannot be disputed. There should’ve been a middle ground to protect your father and our old loved ones but the fear mongering for control power and profit by our government who is captured by pharmaceutical companies was literally running the world. We can never let that happen again Dr D
@frankberryfilmsАй бұрын
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 😂
@mang0donald874Ай бұрын
It's so insufferable. Bill needs to step in and tell the producers to get different people in the audience it's so terrible
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
@@mang0donald874 Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Typical left leaning audience, they're really not informed enough to know what's what.
@patwooster3851Ай бұрын
Thankyou. I have been saying this for weeks, his audience is driving me crazy!!
@sardonicspartan9343Ай бұрын
Wonder how any people laughing are the ones who pushed CLOTH masks. 😂
@billybilly37772 ай бұрын
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.
@kappla2 ай бұрын
Grow up, crybaby
@stephenschaffenberger67652 ай бұрын
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.
@Swlabr612 ай бұрын
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.
@anthonyelwick36002 ай бұрын
@@stephenschaffenberger6765we were never overwhelmed
@anthonyelwick36002 ай бұрын
@@Swlabr61it wasn't as serious as we thought hospitalization was less than 1 %
@CaneFu2 ай бұрын
FYI...COVID took my sister, my ex-wife's 2 sisters, my step daughter, my neighbor, and almost killed me, despite all of us living in separate houses and not seeing each other during the pandemic. In my experience, not enough precautions were taken during the pandemic.
@rjf52852 ай бұрын
I bet you're all fat
@romanaja1252 ай бұрын
Lost my mom, uncle and 3 friends to Covid...my condolences to you
@hope53602 ай бұрын
@CaneFu, So sorry to hear! What area are you in? Were they all vaccinated?
@zeezlebops2 ай бұрын
Stay in your cave
@celluskh60092 ай бұрын
Nope - not enough precautions were taken at the start of the pandemic, which he went over. Then it switched from the government spreading the disease to the government using it as an excuse for repression. The US, along with the UK, Italy and Spain got the worst of both worlds.
@DawnWatch2 ай бұрын
Odd to me that "We ate in parking lots" is listed as one of the "stupid" things we did. Taking stuff outdoors and letting life continue was about the only smart thing we did! Santa Barbara was a model city for that, closing down State street to cars so all the restaurants could serve people outdoors - festive and safe. Astoundingly hospitals in sunny California did not utilize their parking lots as waiting rooms and had everybody crowded together indoors - covid folks and broken legs alike. Talk about stupid. The idiocy was in the extremes - crowd everybody together indoors at hospitals, but close down beaches. So damn dumb.
@breakthroughwithdr.dАй бұрын
It would’ve been better to eat indoors like normal people at the shelter the old and sick. Young and healthy people like me could’ve went to restaurants gotten Covid been perfectly fine in a weeks time. I think he’s putting out the overreaction was on necessary for the very very vast majority. Unless you were old or unhealthy.
@ag3957Ай бұрын
Government wasn't the solution, it was the problem.
@mahasw777Ай бұрын
Scariest words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
@MrDaveadams2 ай бұрын
If the world was a hospital America would be in the mental ward 😂😂
@eddiejeanbrown94742 ай бұрын
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.....!
@jjrr22732 ай бұрын
@@eddiejeanbrown9474 man up bruh you here to comment right?
@danporath5362 ай бұрын
@@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.
@medde6552 ай бұрын
Rimshot!! 😂😂
@medde6552 ай бұрын
Do tell, why do you hate fauci?? Rhetorical question, you have no idea WHY you hate him.
@0Y02USH2 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if I can agree with Bill here. As a person living in a third-world country, I can still remember how much our people suffered in the pandemic. Patients were literally falling off their beds dead and the 'natural immunity' you mentioned about, that simply became a joke at one point. And our healthcare system, despite it's flaws, managed to handle the crisis in the first few months of the pandemic atleast. Many people were praying so hard to get a shot of vaccine, and when it came out, our people were partying like it was Independence Day, despite the fact that a jab did not guarantee complete immunity and precautions had to be taken You know, you can cry and complain about the precautions that we had to take for the first few months, but I say from experience, had I not followed them, I'd have been in an overloaded freezer, and my family or friends would not have even got the chance to see my burial. That being said, I still agree with Bill on many things, but this? NO.
@danatate88032 ай бұрын
Thank you, my global neighbor. Best to you 💕
@Mark_Jacobson812 ай бұрын
Don’t believe you at all. The nations that didn’t get jabbed are the ones who fared best.
@jacqdanieles2 ай бұрын
@@Mark_Jacobson81 source: trust me bro
@Ki_Adi_Mundi2 ай бұрын
Gotta say, a basic concept of immunology seeming laughable to those in a 3rd world country is just...hilarious. Like a bunch of tribesman wondering why all their dicks itch and then throwing away all the condoms sent to them by missionaries from civilization.
@Antropovich2 ай бұрын
@@Mark_Jacobson81 belief is not required here. This is not a church. You can find it out which nations fared best on the account of getting the vaccine.
@harrymills27702 ай бұрын
Admit it. Y'all went nuts over COVID and you demonized those of us who didn't. You're re-writing history, here, mate.
@familledelisle20862 ай бұрын
I'm feed up with the "didn't need to close the schools" arguments. Children didn't live in a vacuum. They interacted with older people at home, their grand-parents for example. having 30 kids packed in an unventilated classroom and then sending them home is not wise as most of them were asymptomatic and big vectors of the disease. From NIH: "Although younger children had lower viral loads than teens and adults, they were most likely to transmit COVID-19 in their household."
@SkilledTadpole2 ай бұрын
Schools could have been opened much more, if adults could have wrapped their heads around the fact that clamoring to keep the bars and every other social gathering area open repeatedly put their hospitals on the edge of collapse. Half the country decided it was all a hoax though.
@Dgills2 ай бұрын
The first vaccine came out 12/2020 and was widely available to vulnerable/elderly over those next couple months, but schools remained closed for the rest of the calendar year. People ended up getting nearly as sick from losing generalized immunity from losing those 4-6 extra months. We should’ve left it up to individual teachers and provided extended pay for those who were willing to come in for the students that didn’t live in immunocompromised households. It would’ve helped rebuild general immunity in people in phases and probably prevented a lot of the flare ups we saw when we dropped the kids in the classroom all at once in the next school year happened.
@digalittledeeper2 ай бұрын
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.
@jjrr22732 ай бұрын
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
@wobblyashes91022 ай бұрын
Same here.
@richardlamb34262 ай бұрын
Bill is perfect on illuminating that our 'experts' and politicians did NOT respect or follow the data. Move beyond your political comments & emotions.
@richardlamb34262 ай бұрын
Bill is perfect on illuminating that our 'experts' and politicians did NOT respect or follow the data. Move beyond your political comments & emotions. @@wobblyashes9102
@robertbeste2 ай бұрын
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.
@user-vz5cq7ey2c2 ай бұрын
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.
@elainehewitt68132 ай бұрын
Sociopath. that’s the word.
@dancepiglover2 ай бұрын
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?
@JnEricsonx2 ай бұрын
@@dancepigloverCause they want him to fuck up everyone they hate. Thats why they voted for him.
@thisisourwar2 ай бұрын
Hopefully they vote biden out. @@dancepiglover
@Jumpingjackflash1232 ай бұрын
@@dancepigloverCause it’s an ego thing and a News Media thing. They’re bombarded 24/7 by “owning the libs” and “the libs wanna destroy your country.” If we didn’t have FOX and OAN and CNN and MSNBC. People wouldn’t know what to think. The news literally brainwashes people as to what to think. Without the heavy bias of the news and just information we’d be wayyy better off. If all those News stations told their followers to support and show understanding to each side and to love the other side people would do it, cause people are sheep. I 100% blame the news media for sowing division in this country and destroying it. Each side should have to do 2 hours daily about the positive things the other side brings to the table. The news is the programming in this country. Also Trump and his division of the country is a yuge part of that too
@jonathansmith37422 ай бұрын
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.
@user-eh5gz7pg7jАй бұрын
Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so😅
@atheist632 ай бұрын
Closing the schools was bad for the children but not as bad as grandma and grandpa on life support ventilators
@rich45162 ай бұрын
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.
@svscared2 ай бұрын
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.
@hithere7482 ай бұрын
@@svscaredOMG 😮
@sildan19882 ай бұрын
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.
@nancyhajeski33602 ай бұрын
@@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.
@torchup2 ай бұрын
Over 1,000,000 Americans died including veterans, teachers, first responders, doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, etc, but no biggie Bill.
@flyballhdeg97752 ай бұрын
The people who died "from" covid, in the U.S., had an average of 3.8 underlying morbidity issues. Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, to name a few. If you had covid as well at the time of your death, it was classified as covid related. Hospitals were paid for every covid linked death.
@echochamber12342 ай бұрын
and millions more die each year from poverty, obesity, or smoking. but you only care about covid because it looks scary and is obsessively covered.
@azishappy20352 ай бұрын
@flyballhdeg9775 How many Americans died in 2019? Asking for a friend~
@ceciliaFX2 ай бұрын
And it's mostly because Donnie was incapable of leadership. He just wished the virus away. "It will disappear by Easter"
@longjohn5262 ай бұрын
@@flyballhdeg9775 You just described 75% of Americans .... We are an obese nation with terrible dietary and drinking habits which leads to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension
@jeffxanders3990Ай бұрын
Officials didn't think it was a big deal until the general public went bananas.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
The general public were fearmongered like crazy by our media - too many fell for the hype. And politicians jumped in to take advantage - power grab.
@jeffxanders3990Ай бұрын
@@richardlamb3426 Yup.
@Bookhermit2 ай бұрын
And KZfaq STILL blocks half the sane comments on the subject
@eyewaszero2 ай бұрын
‘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.
@nolongerblocked62102 ай бұрын
That's true, but Trump was the one who didn't want to do "better safe than sorry"
@tagalong80012 ай бұрын
It was preplanned.
@sheilag22312 ай бұрын
Bring back lockdowns!
@stephenanderson15942 ай бұрын
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.
@chikkipop2 ай бұрын
@@tagalong8001 But not your idiocy; that could have been avoided by staying in school.
@stephanel47702 ай бұрын
Since when Bill Maher cares about kids at school? 🤣🤣🤣
@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing2 ай бұрын
The very first thought that popped into my head, too
@skydiveraj222 ай бұрын
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...
@Bellatrux132 ай бұрын
I don't think he cares, I know I don't. But the facts are the fact, so why not mention it?
@starshake89982 ай бұрын
Since they were all wandering his neighborhood, bored, screaming and playing all day everyday during lockdown. 😆
@danporath5362 ай бұрын
Doesn’t matter, the results of the madness will be with us for decades.
@bigboomer38412 ай бұрын
Trump ignored covid!? WHat? He got slammed for trying to close off people from coming here.......not quite ignoring.
@josephlogel71582 ай бұрын
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
@josephlogel71582 ай бұрын
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
@francislenetti5016Ай бұрын
I remember. I remember some, being labeled racist for trying to restrict the spread. I remember being told facts, that were anything but facts. I remember all the hate. I remember the attacks, and intimidation. I remember the lies. I remember all the people fleeing their beautiful cities. I remember people coming together and helping one another. I remember everyone doing what was needed to protect our elderly. I remember a lot of bad decisions with regards to that. I remember .
@sparkythancztwiseАй бұрын
quality comment francislenetti
@YourLoyalDeserter2 ай бұрын
Half good points, half idiotic
@nicholascerino33862 ай бұрын
Nailed it in 5 words.
@Antropovich2 ай бұрын
which ones were idiotic?
@svscared2 ай бұрын
Curious as to which the good points where and which were the idiotic ones. My take was that the majority were idiotic.
@hedgefundharry2 ай бұрын
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.
@rogergrondin43742 ай бұрын
Mostly, if not all, idiotic.
@einsteinboricua2 ай бұрын
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.
@MichaelDeHaven2 ай бұрын
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.
@davehill1084Ай бұрын
I just watched a video clip where a guest who was asked to be on his show was told …”no….I won’t refrain from my weed smoking ..that’s a deal breaker “. Wow…really Bill? A guy was just trying to stay drug free and sober ? And you say ..”no..I have to smoke weed the entire time I interview you “
@LLandS18Ай бұрын
Yeah I saw that. He told that to stevo. Well. He's just a douchebag who is now officially an old man screaming at the clouds.
@Chinchilla2310Ай бұрын
He didn’t have to go on. Your sobriety is your choice. You can’t dictate what someone does with their own body.
@johnjames2470Ай бұрын
@@Chinchilla2310 : Did you miss the last 4 years when the Biden WH forced vaccinations on our country?
@chrisw6525Ай бұрын
Given everything we've seen and should've learned about Covid I think we would've come out better ignoring it than overreacting like we did.
@DeltaElites2 ай бұрын
Closing schools was never about the children, it was about protecting the teachers Bill. People like you still don't understand how many teachers we were losing when they were closing schools. Child care workers were more likely than the typical American worker to die of COVID in 2020, according to new research. Once we had HVAC systems installed in our schools and reopened the problem was solved.
@svscared2 ай бұрын
Also the families of the kids who could have spread it to their parents, grandparents, and other relatives respectfully.
@jeb9092 ай бұрын
@@svscared There. Somebody finally said it. I don't know how that escapes Bill Maher.
@chillones95742 ай бұрын
FACTS. My elderly relatives that are teachers did not want to go back and die teaching, they drank all the koolaid. I gave my kids extra work at home,still do, they actually bored in public school. I would home school but daddy got to work y'all.
@priscillaa.85482 ай бұрын
@@jeb909 He's never been married and has no children. I used to think he was funny, but he's really just an asshole now.
@tedrossier21042 ай бұрын
And boy did the teachers love getting paid for not working!
@jermelpurse30182 ай бұрын
Bill, don’t you remember in March 2020 we didn’t know anything about COVID-19. I remember that month because it just so happens to be when I was born and two days before my birthday on March 15. My company laid everyone off for the next three months. It didn’t just happen at my job. It happened all across the United States and globally. Major industrialized nation said this is going to be terrible. If you don’t have an essential job you are now being told to stay home. We joke about COVID-19. Some people even say it wasn’t that serious by the end of 2020 1.8 million people died from COVID-19. Back then we didn’t know what to do. We didn’t even have a testing for COVID-19 in March 20 20 the CDC honestly didn’t know how to approach the disease we didn’t even know what it was. We had just started trying to use brand new RNA technology to synthesize a vaccine. a vaccine that would’ve normally taken us a decade or more to develop. We did it in less than 10 months just so happened brand new technology had just fallen into our lap. Sidenote, RNA vaccination technology that’s probably how we will cure cancer. No that is likely we will cure cancer. People often forget we didn’t know what we were dealing with even today we still don’t understand the severity of the situation. People forget we experienced heavy supply side inflation because of COVID-19. In a global economy, we had people all across the globe not working some of them sick many of them quarantining, and that stuff we wanted stuff we needed. We could not get. We wanted chips we couldn’t get them. I remember working in the auto industry and our assembly client not being able to get computer chips to build parts. We about it now some of us don’t even understand how close we came to going over the edge. If that virus had been just a little bit more deadly just a smidge could’ve been worse worse. We are very lucky to come away as unscathed as we did, even though we lost millions of people, even though we still haven’t recovered economically speaking. Even though some people still don’t understand the government had to spend money remember people were laid off. What were you going to do? Tell them to eat dirt. You had to give them money to spend. Remember those words when you’re laughing, I don’t think this is a situation to necessarily joke about especially since so few people actually understand the dynamics of it.
@grantbaker3712 ай бұрын
Wow! You are gullible.
@MaryLouHolmes-ih8dp2 ай бұрын
Great response
@sharon40942 ай бұрын
Trump knew in February.
@t13282 ай бұрын
100%. I’m also talking this commentary a bit less as comical because Bill is known to be an anti-vaxxer, and while he was right that people who are obsess are at far higher risk of Covid than others, people like me, who were in their 40s then, but immune suppressed because we had been through some random but terminal disease that required a bone marrow transplant, or anyone who was immune suppressed because of autoimmune conditions badly needed to take whatever precautions we could until we knew more. Today, I still wear a mask when I go into a shop that is smaller and has less airflow. I still get vaccinated every 6 months, and thankfully, I’ve still never had Covid. But I’m very lucky, and at least 8 members of a 400 person patient community I belong to online with people who wert through what I went to, died; and many more still suffer from long Covid. There’s nothing funny about any of this. But yes, we are far better off now than we were 4 years ago. No big surprise.
@edwardfox95502 ай бұрын
False. The CDC knew all about it because they paid for the gain of function.
@MegaJcoulter2 ай бұрын
All the crazy crap we did was due to the fact that we were absent a leader… Which is the same reason we know Faucci’s name.
@johnjames2470Ай бұрын
Mega: Are you insane? Dr. Faucci was the reason why we had Covid to begin with. Instead of shutting down gain-of-function research he instead moved it to China, which then leaked from the Wuhan lab. Faucci then lied about everything from how it was released to two-weeks to flatten the curve. Dr. Death should be on trial for crimes against humanity, you ignorant fool.
@drdaviddow1Ай бұрын
I would vote for you Bill. we desperately need common sense in this country and humor.
@prodigalpriest24 күн бұрын
He makes less common sense when he's stoned.... which is most of the time.
@mattc.46972 ай бұрын
I'm so sick of these idiots who look back with perfect knowledge but never seem to point out we had no treatment for the disease at this time and that thousands upon thousands were dying every fucking week. Yeah we made mistakes people should admit it, people should also admit we have no idea whether those efforts would have worked because half the country didn't bother to follow them.
@longjohn5262 ай бұрын
I lost 3 relatives to Covid, one in April 2020 (cousin), another the day before the election in 2020 (Father-in-law) and a 3rd (unvaccinated) in December 2021 a couple of days after Christmas (Aunt) ..... Then my brother refused to get vaccinated and caught Covid, foolishly believed he was now immune and got it again 9 months later ..... Like the flu you are only immune to the strain you catch but not immune to the mutations
@AntonioRivera282 ай бұрын
in hindsight the people that didnt follow them were right
@BMG19FUNNYDIE2 ай бұрын
Yeah the treatment didn't do anything. C'mon.
@54raynor2 ай бұрын
And I’m sick and tired of people acting like we didn’t learn anything about the disease during that time, specifically what people were most at risk. We learned very early on that the disease was incredibly dangerous for the elderly but not much of a threat to children, yet we never heard anyone call for a targeted lockdown where everyone else could go about their lives.
@mattc.46972 ай бұрын
@@54raynor God this is what I mean. We seem to have forgotten that we didn't know how the virus was transmitted. It took them like a year to figure out if it was air born or not. The reason Schools closed wasn't just to protect kids,, it also was to protect their family members who were at risk. There is also a low chance of kids developing horrible medical conditions as a result of having covid. It's like we have forgotten how close we were to a complete breakdown of our hospital systems. People can debate whether the damage done to having school closed was worse than what it would have been allowing it to stay open. That's a legit conversation but to say it was 100 percent wrong is just an agenda driven lie.
@danesesse2 ай бұрын
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.
@lindsv2 ай бұрын
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.
@billaveda64082 ай бұрын
Bill, you and your viewers were the ones who fueled the panic.
@richardlamb34262 ай бұрын
Bill has shown better balance than most of his audience, and the Press.
@byronsmith19822 ай бұрын
ExCtly
@ducatixclutch008Ай бұрын
💯🫡
@breakthroughwithdr.dАй бұрын
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.
@j.a.c.3776Ай бұрын
How soon people forget.
@you6382tube2 ай бұрын
Poor Bill. During COVID -- he got bored up in his big secluded mansion. His personal assistants, chauffeurs, private chef / cuisine delivery staff all ended up inconveniencing him at some point during that time. What a damn shame! Bill suffered so much.
@kellygoodman47732 ай бұрын
And, he couldn't get his weed. That was the hardest part for Bill. 😆
@debbiebiccum63022 ай бұрын
He couldn’t stand up on a stage and have people applaud him. Also, get over it. I changed the channel when he started in on Covid again for the 1000th time.
@Gary-And-His-Demons2 ай бұрын
@debbiebiccum6302 Yet you cared enough to comment? What a saint you are!
@user-uy5jl5yn2o2 ай бұрын
even leftist jon stewart finally called it the wuhan flu!
@_Trenchfoot_2 ай бұрын
Yea cause bills a douche
@camwatters6442 ай бұрын
I still like bill but his take on Covid is getting old. Mistakes are expected when something unprecedented happens. He’s still going on about schools closing. Jesus
@JBuchmann2 ай бұрын
Well said. And after all this i'm STILL going to take advice from trained, experienced medical professionals, over people who know nothing but think they know more than the experts. Will get a better batting average that way vs always going against science.
@Magyar19602 ай бұрын
He is 100% correct!
@longjohn5262 ай бұрын
Well it did prove what a sham home schooling really is ...... If kids not going to school and being home schooled was bad during a pandemic then it must really be bad doing it without a pandemic
@Soapandwater62 ай бұрын
@@Magyar1960. Hindsight is 2020.
@purdyboi80782 ай бұрын
@@Soapandwater6 Now THAT'S a good one!!🤣🤣🤣
@pl3aseleavemeal0neАй бұрын
The effects of Covid 19 could be eradicated by super spicy chicken wings, and a gigantic wolf mascot head counted as proper ppe.
@AC3handle2 ай бұрын
Honestly, I don't even WANT to remember 2020, or 2021
@AverageJoe4832 ай бұрын
Didn’t bill tell everyone to shut up and be happy ? He should have taken his own advice in 2020.
@stevecrosby36782 ай бұрын
Easy to mock after the fact. I bet you took your precautions - and smoked more than usual.
@CaneFu2 ай бұрын
Bill Maher made some videos during the pandemic...he never left his mansion and had his groceries delivered.
@echochamber12342 ай бұрын
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.
@jjrr22732 ай бұрын
@@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
@user-hu5iw4lb4x2 ай бұрын
Right I don’t understand this attitude, I remember things a lot different and people died ❤but I’m not an ideologue
@bfrandsen12 ай бұрын
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.
@clownworld802422 күн бұрын
"and then we banned them from visiting there dying parents in hospitals and then there funeral" *laugh track haahahaha
@brucegelman5582Ай бұрын
Where are all the apologies? Nobody in American politics is capable of uttering these simple phrases...I was wrong or I'm sorry... The adults have left the room.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Very well said. Blame politics & ego.
@johnhoie12 ай бұрын
Bill has become the old guy saying “Get off my lawn.”
@chalkandcheese18682 ай бұрын
Only a moron would make such an analogy.
@Terastas2 ай бұрын
Which is funny, because the time he's bitching about was when absolutely nobody was on his lawn.
@philwill01232 ай бұрын
@@Terastashe's the man who screams "cancel culture" when someone dares criticise him.
@jasonstegallco.960Ай бұрын
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.
@MattKearns-zi4rc28 күн бұрын
That clown don't have a lawn he lives in a bubble
@lk36672 ай бұрын
Alternate Facts from Maher, for laughs. Tuning out now.
@ladistarАй бұрын
Sorry the truth hurts your brain
@deenielson7992Ай бұрын
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!
@jamesdelcol3701Ай бұрын
The COVID material is funny. You are hitting a stride Bill. It feels like George Carlin right now. You should release a new 1 hour special and hammer this stuff home.
@shawnreese26972 ай бұрын
Well, most of the Covid-restrictions (nearly all) were imposed by people that BM adores.....like the Governor of CA?? And whom was a hypocrite to the rules HE imposed?
@jaimhaas51702 ай бұрын
Indeed. He supports most of them. Ludicrous.
@wongjefx9802 ай бұрын
I remember the extra refrigeration NYC had to order to keep all the bodies.
@Hgood12 ай бұрын
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.
@Easyrecliner2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ozzie39632 ай бұрын
@@Hgood1….Bill told a lot of obvious truths. Which part was hard to watch for you?
@Soapandwater62 ай бұрын
@@ozzie3963 He said he lost his dad to covid. Don’t be an a$$hole.
@ozzie39632 ай бұрын
@@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
@TunesGS572 ай бұрын
Well, Bill, it's not "over." Many wealthy people have no idea how bad the situation was, and still can be, in "fly-over" country. Since I have Sjögren's Syndrome I was very careful to mask up in crowds even after the lockdown was over. My husband did not and brought Covid-19 home in 2022!!! I was in bed for a month, weak and barely able to breath. The constant coughing was extremely painful because I have arthritis, and every bone in my body ached. I was practically chugging cough syrup. Now I have long-covid which entails chronic fatigue, brain fog and food allergies. It's never "over."
@LordLOC2 ай бұрын
Don't even bother, Maher (and by extension many of the viewers now) are either straight up anti-vax or they question EVERYTHING having to do with covid back then (and now technically) as you can see in this video where he bashes everything, we did even though it was precautionary since we didn't know much about the virus at the time. That's what he does now, he mocks everything and grifts about everything else. And I get it, it's comedy it's supposed to make you chuckle, but a virus that killed millions and causes serious issues like you have with long-covid isn't funny in the least. You can make jokes of course, but not everyone is going to laugh.
@ispeakmytruth15492 ай бұрын
What a considerate husband.
@tiffanymorahan91252 ай бұрын
You should be asking questions then! Where did this come from? It’s a bio weapon. It’s funny people want to talk about all the harm this caused but don’t want to get to the root of the problem, just more propaganda.
@SnapDragon1282 ай бұрын
In other words, you've ALREADY CAUGHT the disease, and (somehow!) lived despite your maximally-dramatic retelling of your suffering. So, congrats? You can stop cosplaying that you're living through the Black Death now.
@LordLOC2 ай бұрын
@@tiffanymorahan9125 Watch more Newsmax or I guess Bill Maher if you think it, was a bioweapon. Jesus, not everything is a god damn Hollywood movie (oh I forgot they suck also, conspiracies everywhere!!!!!)
@louisduarte8763Ай бұрын
Am I better off now than I was 4 years ago? Fuck yeah!
@Paradisusinfernalis68152 ай бұрын
I remember taking my puppy outside , I was absolutely alone in a small park and suddenly a very old man came very close to me - like literally in my face and started yelling - why I am not wearing a mask ! He saw me out of window without a mask , put on his mask went outside , came to me and asked where is my mask . Stupidity has no borders!
@9FolesBDN2 ай бұрын
What’s wrong with overreacting to a new pandemic? I’d rather be safe than sorry, all we knew is that in places like NY the morgues were overflowing so they brought in freezer trucks.
@HoopsKevinski2 ай бұрын
And we had pandemic mandates #WhenAmericaWasGreat. There were even health officials, not police, shooting people for not masking up. And even if they didn't worship Mammon, CONservatives still wouldn't follow conservative principles like "better safe than sorry" & "an ounce of prevention..." over "owning the libs".
@hithere7482 ай бұрын
The over reacting was hurting people.
@crosslink14932 ай бұрын
I didn't think it was over-reacting, just using some basic safety precautions to help lower the probability of exposure while the science was figured out so we knew what we were dealing with. Just wash your hands, wear a mask, limit the number of folks in a store at one time, drive through (or pick-up) service only at restaurants, 'sneeze guard' screens at check-out counters (just like at buffets), work from home, etc. Nothing seemed too extreme to me, just an inconvenience.
@robertatkins94192 ай бұрын
What's wrong with it? Ask the people who lost their jobs because of a 'no jab, no job' mandate.
@jayfender44862 ай бұрын
@robertatkins9419 Vaccines are still good to use dude, I have zero problem with an employer requiring them. I had to get them to go to public schools, and for good cause.
@july95662 ай бұрын
Ok to be fair Colorado did it right with the cardboard cut outs in sports events , they had South Park characters which was hilarious!
@mylesharvey64882 ай бұрын
😂 not to mention opened faster than many Republican States! Colorado was open that fall. After the vaccine we were fully open!
@sandboxsub3332 ай бұрын
Why didn't you convince other blue states to follow your lead?
@dannyfrog2 ай бұрын
I saw one cut out of Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's. 😂
@michaelboulton68042 ай бұрын
no cardboard cutouts at BLM protests
@dannyfrog2 ай бұрын
@michaelboulton6804 aww. Aren't you cute with your whataboutism.
@aburnette156Ай бұрын
A man who doesn't pick sides right on
@carlospenalver8721Ай бұрын
New rule: Gov says 18 to join military 21 to drink alcohol so how about when you turn 40 the gov lets me do whatever I want like smoke a blunt without the onset of paranoia from fear of arrest. Just leave us the fk alone.
@jeremyholcombe32022 ай бұрын
As usual Bill; the survivors get to write the history.
@dockildare17632 ай бұрын
…… and then Republicans come along preferring “alternative facts” ……..
@vasil123612 ай бұрын
Oh, you mean 98% of the people that got it!
@ladyvincenza2 ай бұрын
I'm a bit confused as to why Bill seems to be denouncing COVID vaccines. After all, people who had COVID were able to get it again, so "natural immunity" wasn't cutting it.
@Durzo12592 ай бұрын
Well, there were a disproportionate amount of people who got major health complications from those vaccines. Pericarditis was one of the big ones, I'm still recovering from my 2nd bout thanks to the vaccine, which as it turns out barely helped improve immunity.
@BichaeldeAngelo2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, the antibodies generated from the vaccine also seem to be short-lived. As for the comment above mine, there is a much greater risk of getting pericarditis from COVID than the vaccine
@jacobcoburn76342 ай бұрын
It's because Bill has had a longstanding issue with health stuff - not sure why, maybe the 'old hippie' in him. He isn't a full anti-vaxxer but flirts with the line quite a bit. And I don't get the whole desire for 'natural immunity' - that requires you to get it, suffer the effects and then (hopefully) make a full recovery with naturally-produced antibodies. But COVID isn't like chicken pox - getting it and getting it out of the way doesn't work well for something that, like the flu, evolves quickly and thus makes immunity (and vaccines) lag in effectiveness over time.
@NWPaul722 ай бұрын
Pretty sure I got an early dose that didn't get properly diagnosed and we've never been sicker. A year later, after a few vaccines, we did get diagnosed, but I've had worse flus. I'd say get vaxxed if your area is getting hot, if only for the symptom relief.
@jacobcoburn76342 ай бұрын
@@Durzo1259 Uh huh. And you have had the exhaustive medical assessments to show that this condition (supposing you aren't just making this up whole cloth) is related to the vaccine (assuming you got it)? Cuz there are a lot of bots pushing this type of crap. If the problems (much less the 'sudden deaths') arose by the millions from the vaccines as is claimed, then I should see at least some people in my wider circle (almost all of whom are vaccinated) have issues/die, yet not a single one has had issues. Not one. Either we are all the luckiest people on Earth, or you are making it up.
@sammysstopmotionoas2004Ай бұрын
2020 was probably the worst of my life so far. The fact that all of that political nonsense was going on and there was no way to go out and escape it was maddening! I had the worst experience with the Unemployment agency I have ever had, and everytime things seemed to be getting better, it got worse, all thanks to COVID!
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Bring back 2019 !!!!
@raiderfan64422 ай бұрын
"It has become a pandemic of the unvaxed". One of many covid shamings.
@richardlamb34262 ай бұрын
One of the many claims that the left got wrong.. The vax doesn't even prevent infection or transmission.
@ThigrandilАй бұрын
Are you ashamed of the truth?
@Aisenheim2 ай бұрын
Say what you will, covid took family members and friends. So I don’t agree with Bill. Right now we laugh about it after the fact, but how would we know back then? We didn’t! The government didn’t, doctors didn’t, no one did until after quite a bit, and those that ignored the thing died. Any over reaction at the time, was the right reaction unless you like playing Russian roulette.
@paule51952 ай бұрын
He seems to have a short memory, there were barely enough ventilators. What did ERs look like Bill? What countries kept everything open - were they successful?
@brentvfreiberger2 ай бұрын
Trump knew on March 12th that the disease was airborne, spread by aerosols, as he told Bob Woodward in an interview. He told Woodward that he wanted to downplay it to avoid panic.
@tomdulle17072 ай бұрын
Okay the gloryhole "I wouldn't look into it" line is comedy gold!
@RTC16552 ай бұрын
A killer joke, on several levels.
@user-rs5be9qg7k2 ай бұрын
I don't think many got the layers with that joke.
@FactchekkaАй бұрын
I wouldn't go poking around either.
@chrisspadafora3640Ай бұрын
@@RTC1655 Yeah Bill Marge about as funny as Stephen ColbertButtheadsLefty'slosers
@lesleyjohnson8488Ай бұрын
😂
@totallynameless8861Ай бұрын
Glad he called out torturing animals.
@aliolanrewaju188Ай бұрын
Where’s Boeing 😂😂😂
@simon1italy2 ай бұрын
Covid to Maher is like Hillary's emails to conservatives: he'll never let that go.
@anthonyelwick36002 ай бұрын
Hillary broke the law so
@Ki_Adi_Mundi2 ай бұрын
Because we should let treason go. Right... Also, I'm not even remotely conservative, so yeah. You're just an idiot or a bot.
@jcoopes56042 ай бұрын
It was a communicable disease that we just didn’t know enough about! The a$$ hole at the top was so vain it started the anti mask! He knew and he lied instead of just saying the truth! Never again!
@alexag84612 ай бұрын
Everything he mentioned were things common-sense conservatives and libertarians were saying back then. I agree with the message, but he conveniently omits that it was his side pushing all of these nonsense theories, measures and calling everyone a conspiracy theorist or permanently shunning their childhood friends because they didn’t get their 3rd booster. Or that it was mostly Democrat governors and celebrities imposing Draconian measures that hurt the economy while hypocritically partying it up. The hysteria was mostly coming from one side of the political aisle as they benefited from weaponizing and politicizing the pandemic during an election year and used the restrictions to exert power, censorship and pass agendas that had nothing to do with the virus. Nevermind that the first anti-vaxx conspiracies were spread by prominent Democrat politicians, including Biden/Harris. He acknowledges printing money during COVID is the cause of inflation but omits that Biden furthered that with the same reckless spending.
@nadura552 ай бұрын
So he shouldn’t. People need to be held accountable one way or another. We went full dystopian and lessons need to be learned. I didn’t vax because I caught it very early on and guess what I’m here. Worked a job that couldn’t be shut down and lived an overall normal life. We overreacted got multiple useless vaccines and still spread the virus. There were more casualties caused by the over reactions misinformation and hysteria. Sorry but it’s a pill you’re going to have to swallow
@Kanelle882 ай бұрын
My grandmother caught covid a few days after this last Christmas from being in a rehab center from a broken bone. She's been gone for two months now. Since it happened I can't help but wonder if she would have caught it if someone competent was in the oval office during the pandemic. Would it have spread as far as it had? Would it have evolved as much? I can't help but ask myself that "what if".. Either way, I believe not listening to the experts and spreading bullshit during the pandemic was Trump's greatest crime. It leaves a bitter taste in my mouth that there's no recourse for the people who lost loved ones because of his ego.
@Friendlneighborhoodanarchist2 ай бұрын
This can't be said enough. You're absolutely right
@AntonioRivera282 ай бұрын
no one could stop the spread of a global virus. this entire what if scenario is idiotic. and nothing the "experts" said about the virus was based in reality. masks didnt work, the vaccine doesnt stop the virus from spreading. lockdowns only prolonged the outbreak. the fact that you try to blame this on one person that isnt to blame at all is pretty pathetic. fauci on the other hand..... the guy that funded the creation of the virus.... one could make an argument to blame him
@central34252 ай бұрын
No it would've played out the same no matter who was in office. No restrictions now for 2 years, COVID still circulates
@Hgood12 ай бұрын
I lost my dad 4 months ago from COVID. He contracted the virus in hospital. No one wore masks around him, no one would. Then they had to wear masks because of the COVID they gave him. Then they tried to push him out to a hospice but the hospice wouldn't take him because of the COVID he got from the hospital.
@svscared2 ай бұрын
I'm sorry for your loss and I agree that better precautions should have been taken for sure. And in regards to Trump he is so foul that he has arguably worse crimes including trying to overthrow democracy in this country.
@avjakeАй бұрын
If the World Health Organization declared it is an airborne virus sooner, a lot of time, energy, money and lives would have been saved.
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Same deal with China and the CCP - They sat on their knowledge of covid while allowing international flights to export the virus for over a month.
@bajabret602 ай бұрын
Only an out of touch old person would say missing school was worse than a lethal virus
@Zaiahdoggs2 ай бұрын
Lethal is a key word
@AntonioRivera282 ай бұрын
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
@sebastiencarre24162 ай бұрын
for some children, staying home = beating, incest. You probably thinks it's better than covid...
@gksmith50722 ай бұрын
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.
@derekaarts49972 ай бұрын
you drunk all the koolaid.....
@JAYDUBYAH292 ай бұрын
Come on, Bill.
@user-hq5hs7bt2cАй бұрын
New writers? That's the first time Bill has ever made me laugh!
@richardlamb3426Ай бұрын
Honest writers!
@user-hq5hs7bt2cАй бұрын
😊
@thegulch1780Ай бұрын
No WE didn't. Some of us weren't that stupid. 🙄
@Quinsec2 ай бұрын
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.
@AUTOPSY6662 ай бұрын
And DJT disbanded the Pandemic Response Team
@hyzer64352 ай бұрын
Excellent statement.
@williamturner45202 ай бұрын
@@AUTOPSY666 Not quite the way that went but hating Trump leads to false half-truths and such. It's a derangement thing.
@AUTOPSY6662 ай бұрын
@@williamturner4520 tell me how it happened, MAGA brain
@Mobri2 ай бұрын
@williamturner4520 Don't talk, just keep eating those paint chips.
@g.d.graham24462 ай бұрын
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) 🙄
@nemastique4092 ай бұрын
reminds me of his clip about presentism...
@toddwerther1882 ай бұрын
Hindsight didn't seem to be 20/20 when Hannity, Trump, and the entire Whackospehere went into overdrive attacking Obama for 2 Ebola deaths.
@barrywassel38992 ай бұрын
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 ?
@AdamBraus2 ай бұрын
A lot of people were saying this stuff real time.
@wafflesmomforlife92152 ай бұрын
EXACTLY!!
@intervestcom805422 күн бұрын
Great truth Bill!!! Thank u
@Delia-303Ай бұрын
Do you ever feel like you’re talking to the American wall
@PokeySoggybottom2 ай бұрын
It's hard to understand why an otherwise rational man like Bill can be so irrational as to believe he knows better than the world's top epidemiologists and public health experts. He just astoundingly became an expert overnight.
@oldtiredm532 ай бұрын
But he dies.
@oldtiredm532 ай бұрын
Oh good grief but he DOES (sorry - fat fingers...and I'm a boomer😬
@leechap32 ай бұрын
Bill is an arrogant twit.
@grantbaker3712 ай бұрын
It's interesting how little Anericans read. Stop listening exclusively to the corporate messaging. Who owns the cdc. Who pays the 'news' stations. Why do lobbyists lobby your government. Because they are charitable?
@leechap32 ай бұрын
@@grantbaker371 You could have saved all of us some time and just kept that little gem to yourself.
@Phase520122 ай бұрын
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.
@nolongerblocked62102 ай бұрын
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
@PeteLeuenberger2 ай бұрын
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.
@maxkulis7216 күн бұрын
Oh, yes, Bill is back in town.
@Delia-303Ай бұрын
We’re still getting nasal f’d
@squatch5452 ай бұрын
Talk about 'overreacting'. Bill Maher overreacts with hyperbole about things that happened during the pandemic.
@jjrr22732 ай бұрын
When you're out of ideas backtrack like a Schaub ...
@squatch5452 ай бұрын
@@jjrr2273 ?
@highstax_xylophones2 ай бұрын
Someone missed the point about comparing now to 4 years ago
@squatch5452 ай бұрын
@@highstax_xylophones Someone missed the point about overreacting.