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During his appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week, the 65-year-old “Real Time With Bill Maher” host cited a survey in the New York Times — “which is a liberal paper so they weren’t looking for this answer,” Fox News reported.
“The question was, ‘What do you think the chances are that you would have to go to the hospital if you got COVID?’ And Democrats thought that was, way higher than Republicans,” Maher said. “The answer is between 1 percent and 5 percent.”
He said 41 percent of Democrats thought it was over 50 percent, while 28 percent thought it was between 20 percent and 49 percent of patients ending up in the hospital.
“Seventy percent of Democrats thought it was way, way, way higher than it really was,” Maher added. “Liberal media has to take a little responsibility for that. For scaring the s— out of people.”
https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/bill-m...-19-reporting/
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That’s a pretty remarkable survey.
The average lefty thinks there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll wind up in the hospital if they catch the Bat Lady’s designer bug. That’s funny but it’s not, really. People are going to be psychologically damaged by this. I wonder how many of them are kids or young people.
Some people should be ashamed of themselves.
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I agree it's a remarkable survey. The mainstream media, however, reports every day what the hospitalization rates are. There's no reason why anyone who follows the news should think they are in the range Maher mentioned. Also, Maher should know better than call the Times "a liberal paper" in reference to its straight news reporting. The Times, like every other mainstream newspaper, reports the news; it doesn't invent it.
"Give pearls away and rubies but keep your fancy free."
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Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
What do you expect? We now live in the post-truth era.
Misinformation rules the day. The media has been fully discredited, as have most of the science community. People get their "facts" from all kinds of bad sources.
Is should be a win for you, right?
Those are raw numbers. Were you aware that only between 1-5% of Covid infections require hospitalization? I’ll do just the opposite of the media and put an even happier face on it: that 1-5% is skewed heavily towards the at risk population. IOW, an average healthy person probably has someone like a 0.5% risk of hospitalization.
Go out and enjoy yourself. Like people in Red States have been doing for months and months.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
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