During the final monologue of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said those who promoted bad policies and approaches during the coronavirus pandemic have avoided admitting their mistakes. “Many dissenting voices have been suppressed and ridiculed in Congress,” he said. Time proved right. Perhaps that’s why those in power never wanted a coronavirus commission. Maher also said we have learned nothing from the pandemic, citing the continued use of gain-of-function research as an example.
Maher said: “I understand that in the early days of COVID-19 we didn’t know exactly what was going on and some mistakes were inevitable. But four years later, we understand that… I’m tired of hearing “we didn’t know.” No, it wasn’t, but some people guessed better than others, and those who were wrong don’t seem to want to admit it now. …I don’t often see retractions printed. ”
After discussing school closures, attacks on the lab leak theory, overreactions to restrictions, and attacks on defenders of natural immunity, Maher said: Many of the ideas that have not aged well and the opposing views that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have been proven correct. Perhaps that’s why those in power never wanted a coronavirus commission. Why not? We love commissions. Warren Commission, AIDS Commission, 9/11 Commission, NFL: Is it unwise to bang your head on someone else’s head? Committee, really. So where is the coronavirus committee? Because we don’t seem to be learning anything. Perhaps the No. 1 lesson learned from the pandemic was the need for proper ventilation, and No. 2 was not to be on Zoom with Jeffrey Toobin. But even if there was a big national movement to renovate buildings, I missed it. Gain-of-function research is still being conducted in the laboratory. We still torture animals by raising our food in conditions perfect for viruses to enter humans. Bird flu has just been discovered in goats, meaning we are just one farmer isolated from the next pandemic. We handed out $4 trillion in free money, $280 billion of which was straight up stolen in what the Associated Press called “the greatest corruption in U.S. history,” starting an inflationary spiral that is now under Biden’s He blames it. So are we going to get back the Trump who ignored the coronavirus like it was a dinner check? ”
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