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    n his closing monologue Friday night, Maher took aim at the media's "panic porn" during the pandemic, citing a Dartmouth study showing that "nearly 90 percent" of U.S. national media coverage was negative in comparison to other countries even as conditions were getting better.

    Maher also called out politicians who "lie" to "save their own asses."

    "When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left," Maher told viewers. "Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble ... but what about liberals? You know, the high-information, behind-the-science people?"

    Maher then pointed to a Gallup survey that showed the vast majority of Democrats incorrectly overestimate the probability of being hospitalized from COVID, with 41 percent believing it's at least 50 percent while only 10 percent of Democrats correctly said that the probability is only 1-to-5 percent while 26 percent of Republicans said the same, stressing that Democrats were "wildly off on this key question."

    [Democrats] also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID to and the mortality rate among children, all of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states," Maher lamented. "So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn't liberal media have to answer for 'How did your audience wind up believing such bunch of crap about COVID?'"

    The HBO star blasted The Atlantic magazine for shaming the media's use of beach photos as a concern of furthering the spread of the virus "even though it's increasingly looking like the beach is the best place to avoid it."


    "Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system," Maher exclaimed. "Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently and their infection rates went down in part because of people getting outside to let the sun and wind do their thing. But to many liberals, 'That can't be right because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors,' but life is complicated!"
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ng-covid-wrong

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    "Imagine how many lives could have been saved if there had been a national campaign ala Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move' program with the urgency of the pandemic behind it," Maher continued. "If the media and the doctors made the point to keep saying, 'But there's something you can do,' but we'll never know because they never did because the last thing you want to do is say something insensitive. We would literally rather die. Instead, we were told to lock down. Unfortunately, the killer was already inside the house. And her name is Little Debbie."

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    DeSantis did everything correct, from isolating nursing homes and opening up schools last Oct

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    DeSantis did everything correct, from isolating nursing homes and opening up schools last Oct
    We have hyper liberal friends that think the same way as Maher. I also know republicans that #liveinfear. It’s not necessarily a right left issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    n his closing monologue Friday night, Maher took aim at the media's "panic porn" during the pandemic, citing a Dartmouth study showing that "nearly 90 percent" of U.S. national media coverage was negative in comparison to other countries even as conditions were getting better.

    Maher also called out politicians who "lie" to "save their own asses."

    "When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah, you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on the left," Maher told viewers. "Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble ... but what about liberals? You know, the high-information, behind-the-science people?"

    Maher then pointed to a Gallup survey that showed the vast majority of Democrats incorrectly overestimate the probability of being hospitalized from COVID, with 41 percent believing it's at least 50 percent while only 10 percent of Democrats correctly said that the probability is only 1-to-5 percent while 26 percent of Republicans said the same, stressing that Democrats were "wildly off on this key question."

    [Democrats] also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID to and the mortality rate among children, all of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states," Maher lamented. "So if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate change denial, shouldn't liberal media have to answer for 'How did your audience wind up believing such bunch of crap about COVID?'"

    The HBO star blasted The Atlantic magazine for shaming the media's use of beach photos as a concern of furthering the spread of the virus "even though it's increasingly looking like the beach is the best place to avoid it."


    "Sunshine is the best disinfectant and Vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system," Maher exclaimed. "Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently and their infection rates went down in part because of people getting outside to let the sun and wind do their thing. But to many liberals, 'That can't be right because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors,' but life is complicated!"
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ng-covid-wrong
    Tell that to our resident nurse Mad witch Cuckoo who refuses point blank to accept that UV and humidity kill off the virus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymoose View Post
    We have hyper liberal friends that think the same way as Maher. I also know republicans that #liveinfear. It’s not necessarily a right left issue.
    sure . nothing is absolute. In general however Maher makes the points Dems inflate the dangers and use lock downs
    Lockdowns simply do not stop the spread; kids need to be in school etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    Tell that to our resident nurse Mad witch Cuckoo who refuses point blank to accept that UV and humidity kill off the virus.
    more and more we are finding out aerosol - NOT surface transmission- is the big factor in infections
    Remember the beach photos of Fl and SUPER SPREADER captions? they were bogus

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    sure . nothing is absolute. In general however Maher makes the points Dems inflate the dangers and use lock downs
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    Agreed. It’s all about controlling the masses. Taking away individual freedom and liberty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    more and more we are finding out aerosol - NOT surface transmission- is the big factor in infections
    Remember the beach photos of Fl and SUPER SPREADER captions? they were bogus
    And this is why flu season is almost always in winter. People staying INSIDE and infecting each other in close quarters.

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    I like Bill Maher, but he fucks up like anybody else.
    Calling DeSantis anything but pigshit is seriously fucking up.

    He wears brown shoes after 6PM...on television, no less. Unfuckingbelievable.

    That's why New York made him move to LA.
    Our coast still has standards, at least north of the Carolinas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post

    He wears brown shoes after 6PM...on television, no less. Unfuckingbelievable.
    OMG. how horrible

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    OMG. how horrible
    It fucking IS horrible if you weren't brought up in a flyover country barn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    It fucking IS horrible if you weren't brought up in a flyover country barn.

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