Despite many of his rather progressive views, commentator Bill Maher has come out as somewhat of a Covid-skeptic in recent years.
Scratch that, he’s become a genuine Covid-skeptic in the sense that he questions why and how the government was able to take such control of the population with no questions asked.
Beyond the control itself is the sheer amount of money spent by the government to shut down the economy and pay people to “hider under their bed,” as Maher puts it.
Watch this exchange on Maher’s podcast, with NFL superstar Aaron Rodgers, about how easy it was for the government to impose control and start issuing mandates that everyone said would never happen. As Maher says, the scariest thing was never the disease, it was how easy the government shut down people’s lives:
Bill Maher and Aaron Rodgers point out how “just about every ‘conspiracy’ came to true” during Covid. And how the government kept people hiding under their beds through lies.
— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) September 12, 2022
Outkick provides a great transcript of the exchange as well:
“This is all just, this is ideology, this is not medicine, this is indoctrination, and to me, the frightening thing was never the disease itself,” Maher said.
“The frightening thing was how much you could get people, so quickly, to change their way of life. Stay home, wear a mask, you know.”
“We spent more to keep people hiding under the bed than we did for World War II,” Maher adds. “Talk about a country that’s gone a little soft.”
Rodgers agreed, saying “Just about, well, every conspiracy theory came true.”
“Vaccine mandates, vaccine passports and it turned into, like, a way from doing your job to stop the spread to, like, lockdowns.”
Neither man is wrong in the sense that once the public accepted “two weeks to flatten the curve,” it was clear the health bureaucrats had already won. If people needed to stay home for two weeks, why not four weeks? Why not two months? Why not fix months?
Once the economy closed, politicians felt empowered and inclined to never re-open.
If staying locked indoors was the only way to achieve 100% safety, then why should anyone be allowed to exit until zero-Covid is achieved? The answer is because zero-Covid is a pipe-dream. Humans can’t function like that, especially in a society where people must leave their homes to shop and work.
Maher’s point that the government spent more on Covid-19 than it did on World War II is quite a staggering statistic.
Here’s the full podcast episode if you’re interested.
Language warning since this is Bill Maher after all:
