Sebastian Lunes 
In the season’s premier of his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher continued to talk a lot about Covid-19. That’s even though he claimed in his monologue that the Covid-19 pandemic has “just gone on too long, no one cares anymore.” Maher used words such as “masked paranoid world”, “bananas”, and “have no friends” when describing people who are following recommended Covid-19 precautions. Yes, he said all of this in the middle of a Winter surge of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
You can hear some of these comments in the video clip accompanying this tweet from Maher:
As you can see, Maher said the following about Covid-19: “If you are one of those people who didn’t get it at all, you must be very diligent, very careful, and you have no friends.” After all, why should your friends care about your health, right?
Maher went on to to complain, “it’s ridiculous. You don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore, your masked paranoid world.” Was he referring to the “paranoid world” where the U.S. had 3,866 reported Covid-19-related deaths on January 21 alone and has been averaging over 2,100 Covid-19-related deaths a day for the past seven days, according to data assembled by the New York Times? Or was he referring to the world where potentially a quarter to a half of those who have had Covid-19 will continue to experience long Covid symptoms, as researchers at Penn State have found?
“You know, you go out,” Maher lamented. “It’s silly now. You mask, you have to have a card, you have to have a booster.” How terrible is that? Asking people to wear a face mask and carry around a card, when you normally don’t have to carry around any kind of card. Except, of course, for your driver’s license. OK, how silly it is to ask you to carry around two cards: your vaccination card, your driver’s license, and your credit card. All right, three cards, how silly it is to have to carry around your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, and your store rewards card. OK, four cards, amongst the cards that you have to carry are your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, your store rewards card, and your Justice League membership card. Darn.
Maher went on to to complain, “it’s ridiculous. You don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore, your masked paranoid world.” Was he referring to the “paranoid world” where the U.S. had 3,866 reported Covid-19-related deaths on January 21 alone and has been averaging over 2,100 Covid-19-related deaths a day for the past seven days, according to data assembled by the New York Times? Or was he referring to the world where potentially a quarter to a half of those who have had Covid-19 will continue to experience long Covid symptoms, as researchers at Penn State have found?
“You know, you go out,” Maher lamented. “It’s silly now. You mask, you have to have a card, you have to have a booster.” How terrible is that? Asking people to wear a face mask and carry around a card, when you normally don’t have to carry around any kind of card. Except, of course, for your driver’s license. OK, how silly it is to ask you to carry around two cards: your vaccination card, your driver’s license, and your credit card. All right, three cards, how silly it is to have to carry around your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, and your store rewards card. OK, four cards, amongst the cards that you have to carry are your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, your store rewards card, and your Justice League membership card.
Maher went on to to complain, “it’s ridiculous. You don’t want to live in your paranoid world anymore, your masked paranoid world.” Was he referring to the “paranoid world” where the U.S. had 3,866 reported Covid-19-related deaths on January 21 alone and has been averaging over 2,100 Covid-19-related deaths a day for the past seven days, according to data assembled by the New York Times? Or was he referring to the world where potentially a quarter to a half of those who have had Covid-19 will continue to experience long Covid symptoms, as researchers at Penn State have found?
“You know, you go out,” Maher lamented. “It’s silly now. You mask, you have to have a card, you have to have a booster.” How terrible is that? Asking people to wear a face mask and carry around a card, when you normally don’t have to carry around any kind of card. Except, of course, for your driver’s license. OK, how silly it is to ask you to carry around two cards: your vaccination card, your driver’s license, and your credit card. All right, three cards, how silly it is to have to carry around your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, and your store rewards card. OK, four cards, amongst the cards that you have to carry are your vaccination card, your driver’s license, your credit card, your store rewards card, and your Justice League membership card.
For once, he was right.