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HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher called out federal health officials on Friday, asserting that they had politicized their handling of COVID by basically telling everyone ‘it’s my way or the highway’ while dismissing all dissenters, even other doctors, as quacks.
Maher had New York Times senior writer David Leonhardt on his show and proceeded to read a quote from him: “Many people have come to believe that expert opinion is a unitary, omniscient force. That’s the assumption behind the phrases ‘follow the science’ and ‘what the science says.’ It imagines science almost as a god – Science – who could solve our dilemma if we only listened.”
“And this is sort of the case I’ve been making. Like, who’s science? Like, of course, the chip in the vaccine is insane. But you know, the FDA’s two top vaccine experts resigned because they said you’re not following what we found out about boosters. You’re recommending them and we told you not to. It looks politicized. It looks like we have our science and anybody else, we can just pretend they’re a quack. And these aren’t quacks, these are other doctors,” Maher pointed out.
“Science is hard,” Leonhardt replied.
“Especially medical science… we don’t know sh-t,” Maher quipped.
.@DLeonhardt on @billmaher criticizes the "Follow the science" edict and points out it's about looking at the data and making tradeoffs based on our values. pic.twitter.com/QVs4gfcJ3Q
— Clint Olsen (@clintolsen) April 9, 2022
“It involves debates. And I would just urge people to realize that some of these things are hard scientific questions… others are a question of values and a question of trade-offs. If we kept every kid in America home for the next month from school, would we reduce COVID cases? Yes, we would. I think, would that be a good trade-off?”
“If we all stayed home and stayed perfectly still in our room,” Maher responded.
“Right, and that’s not science,” Leonhardt said.
“That’s not science, that’s not life,” Maher stated.
@billmaher Science is the new Inquisition
— Michael Lanning (@michael_lanning) April 9, 2022
“We have to make hard decisions about values and trade-offs,” the journalist concluded.
Earlier in the segment, Maher broached the subject of Democrats being fixated on COVID and asked Leonhardt about it.
“You wrote, ‘Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around COVID is core to their identity as progressives.’ Is that healthy?” Maher asked.
“That I said it or that they’re doing it,” the columnist joked. “It is not healthy. I hope it’s not unhealthy for me saying it.”
.@DLeonhardt is a voice of reason during the pandemic. While many Republicans have been reckless about it, he wrote,
"Millions of Democrats have decided that organizing their lives around COVID is core to their identity as progressives."
on @billmaher pic.twitter.com/D8Md4ft0XD
— Clint Olsen (@clintolsen) April 9, 2022
As a liberal guest tried to assert during the segment that more people are dying in red states than blue ones because The Washington Post says so, Maher clapped back.
“I remember reading on this show a few months ago and Florida was 17, New York and New Jersey were 4 and 5,” he began, referring to the rankings of states by COVID deaths earlier in the pandemic. “Now, there’s varying factors. West Virginia and Massachusetts, which are about as different as two states can get, were 10 and 11.”
“We know what kills people with COVID. I mean obesity is by far the biggest factor. That’s just a fact,” he contended implying that health, not politics is more to blame for COVID deaths.
Then the HBO host listed stats showing that those that are overweight die the most from the virus followed by the elderly and then the unvaccinated.
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What does it say about this country’s medical establishment when it spends hundreds of billion$ of our tax dollars and enforces draconian measures on the population but only gets results against the flu equal to or less than the average results in other countries with far less resources? Africa, in particular, had far less consequences and did squat in combating the disease. In general terms, it tells me our medical authorities suck with regards to treating virus pandemics, but pharmaceutical companies are great a parleying the threat into massive profits.
“I read it in the WaPo!”…..oh, well then.
Those dissenters include Renowned Doctors like Dr. Peter Mccoullough and the creator of the mRNA Dr. Malone and many, many Doctors like Dr. Simmon Gold who has been treating COVID patients successfully with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (both debunked and forbidden by Fauci)!
The treatments had to be administered early in the infected, but the infected were told to go home and wait till their condition was worsened, then they were checked in the ER, separated from their families, so no advocacy, the silenced through intubation (tube down the throat), then given Remdesivir which kills the kidneys!
Fauci’s own emails leaked expose him bc he talked about this very thing, which is debunking, persecuting, threatening all dissenters!
ALSO, the makers of the Hydroxychloroquine, a husband-and-wife team were murdered in 2019 in their home in Canada! And the building in India that manufactured the Hydroxychloroquine was burned down to the ground!
Pharmacists were instructed to oppose and refuse to fill prescriptions for the therapeutics THAT WE EFFECTIVE IN TREATING COVID, literally interfering with doctor/patient relationship, overriding the DOCTORS, imagine that?
Your attempts to garner conservatives to your audience is too little, too late, Maher, as no one believes in your “great awakening” to the realities of leftism.
Maher is a classical liberal. There was a time they weren’t so crazy. He no longer fits in with the party, and many people who would agree with him are now conservatives and independents.
Maher suffers from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome. If he was a Republican, he would be a first class RINO. He hasn’t figured out the Chinese turned this rather benign virus loose on the world to get rid of President Trump with the full help
of the democrat media complex to rig an election who wanted him gone also. So now Maher you got your corrupt senile dunce puppet adult in the room as you say.
Multiple studies (not CDC, FDA propaganda) have repeatedly shown that the fully vaccinated are getting Covid the most and the unvaccinated are getting it the least. Remember, a very many of the unvaccinated are those with natural immunity.
Here is a fact, Israel has the most vaccinated population with 98% of those hospitalized with COVID are the vaccinated! Israel is on their 4th booster!