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22.01.2022 - 08:17 / deadline.com
Bill Maher’s Real Time was back on HBO Friday night, returning from its winter break as the host told his studio audience that it was “wonderful to see your beautiful masks again.”
That was the theme for most of the show, as Maher and guests looked back on things that happened in the long stretch between his last show in November and today. He exited at a time when omicron wasn’t really around, unlike now, when the variant is causing all sorts of chaos.
Thus, where things stand now with the pandemic was the key focus of Friday’s panel discussion with author/journalist Bari Weiss and New York Congressman Ritchie Torres.
Maher noted that there’s “A reset going on in the world. We have to live with (the coronavirus). It’s not going away.”
Torees agreed. “I think we’re gradually transitioning to normal,” while Weiss echoed, “I’m done with Covid.” But she also noted that “We haven’t gotten back to normal. And it’s ridiculous at this point.”
Weiss added that so many of her friends were afraid to say that masks don’t work, and that showing a passport in a restaurant is really proof of nothing, all for fear of being labeled and shunned by the pandemic Karens of the world. “It’s like, at this point, it’s a pandemic of bureaucracy,” she said.
Maher noted that the atmosphere in the free state of Florida, where restrictions aren’t enforced, is much different than the fear that still haunts the coasts. Torres pushed back on that idea, reminding him that the early stages of the pandemic brought emergency room overflows, mass graves, and people fleeing New York state. “I reject the notion that the response has been worse than the disease itself.”
Maher said that we now know that vaccination “does not stop you from getting it. It doesn’t stop
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