Comedian Bill Maher said on “Real Talk with Bill Maher” Friday night that “those in power” are wrong about the coronavirus pandemic.
Maher told the audience that “some very bad ideas” have been accepted as “traditional” ways to deal with the pandemic, such as school closures and lockdown policies.
“We didn’t know exactly what was going on in the early days of COVID-19, and we understand that some mistakes were inevitable,” Maher said. “But four years later, I’m tired of hearing the words, ‘No, we didn’t know.’ No, we didn’t know. But some people guessed better than others. And the people who got it wrong now don’t seem to want to admit it.”
“Some said it made no sense to close schools for so long and would cause even more collateral damage to our children, and they were right,” he added.
The “Real Time” host also acknowledged that some ideas about the origins of the virus were also dismissed too quickly as conspiracy theories. He mentioned the idea that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, a view widely criticized during the pandemic. (Related: FDA settles lawsuit, agrees to remove ridiculed ivermectin)
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“Many of the dissenting voices that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time were vindicated.”
This includes, but is not limited to:
• The new coronavirus originated in a laboratory.
• Ivermectin was effective.
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“Of course, it wasn’t a conspiracy theory, and it wasn’t something that Steve Bannon owned. And now everyone, including the Biden administration, is trying to figure out why the lab in Wuhan was doing gain-of-function research on the virus. “We accept that there is at least a 50-50 chance that the virus originated in the United States. But we don’t often see retractions printed,” Maher said.
Anthony Fauci, who served as the president’s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic, said in a document released in July 2023 that scientists were working on gain-of-function research. Approved in February 2020. The Biden administration reportedly ended a State Department investigation into the lab leak theory in spring 2021.
Mr Maher called for the creation of a “coronavirus committee” and questioned why it had not yet been created.
“Yes, there were some very bad ideas that were accepted as common sense, and some ideas that never got old. And many of the opposing views that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time were proven right.” Maher said. “Perhaps that’s why the never-wanted powers-that-be don’t want a coronavirus commission. Why not? We love commissions! The Warren Commission, the AIDS Commission, the 9/11 Commission. NFL Then there was the opinion, “Is it bad for your head to hit another player in the head?” commission. “
