COVID ‘Dissenters Are Looking Pretty Good,’ Bill Maher Says

Do you remember when social media prohibited anyone from suggesting that COVID virus might have been leaked from China’s lab that was researching coronaviruses.

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However, that was back in the past. Now, much of the COVID narrative is falling apart — new studies have suggested that masks don’t work, lockdowns were ineffectual, the vaccine is now mostly ineffective, and the U.S. Energy Department says that it’s likely the Wuhan lab was the source of the virus.

Bill Maher (host of HBO’s) has been keeping up the story. “Real Time.”

“I feel like the people who were the dissenters are looking pretty good. I was one of them,” Maher spoke during Friday’s panel discussion. “I remember getting a lot of s*** from a lot of places.”

Russell Brand, comedian and Rumble host, was invited to the show as a guest. Brand said he disagreed with Brand’s opinion. “is a great duty around all topics” He criticized people who were not. “too desperate to shut down a conversation.” This, he stated, leads to the “ironic” Rejection of inquiry and science.

“The problem I feel that we had is that only experimentation was taking place that was beneficial to certain interests,” Brand. “Only arguments were being advanced that were beneficial to certain interests. Only regulations were being imposed that were beneficial to certain interests.”

“The Wuhan lab leak theory being just one example — [top COVID official Dr. Anthony] Fauci himself was seriously considering that this was a likely origin for the virus,” “The actor spoke.

“How could it not be a possibility?” Maher was incredulous. “It’s a lab in Wuhan where the virus started that studied the virus and was doing gain of function research on the virus. How could it not be?!”

John Heilemann, an MSNBC liberal analyst, was another guest. He blamed former President Donald Trump. “politicizing” This issue raises doubts about the theory of the lab-leak.

“If you go back to that time, why do people seize on the notion that they’ll reject the lab-leak theory? Because like everything else in COVID, Donald Trump politicized it from day one,” He said.

“His thing in that first two weeks was ‘kung flu.’ And it was not just that it started in a lab, but then that the Chinese had released it on the world, that it was a bioweapon. This wasn’t a leak. It was just not like there was an accident in the lab. The notion that was put forward by the administration in some case was there was political interest to make China the villain,” Heilemann said.

Maher, however, resisted. “So everybody else has to take his bait like that and double down on stupid?” He said.

Brand kept going, insisting that Trump wasn’t the only one who politicized virus.

“It seems that it’s not solely the responsibility of Donald Trump that this issue has become politicized. When we take the issue of natural immunity, the efficacy of masks, it’s difficult not to posit that perhaps increasingly a centralized authority becomes subject to inquiry that has never before face to because of the advancement of technology, because of our media ability to communicate, they are doubling down on authoritarianism,” Brand.

Maher’s critique follows Jon Stewart’s, who was a liberal dyed in the wool and once hosted “The Daily Show.” Fellow liberals ripped him when he, in June 2021, declared vehemently and in a very funny manner that the COVID viruses had originated in Wuhan in China.

The U.S. Energy Department stated this week that the virus had likely been discovered in a laboratory.

“The larger problem with all of this is the inability to discuss things that are within the realm of possibility without falling into absolutes and litmus-testing each other for our political allegiances as it arose from that,” He said.

“My bigger problem with that was, I thought it was a pretty good bit that expressed kind of how I felt, and the two things that came out of it were, I’m racist against Asian people, and how dare I align myself with the alt-right,” Stewart stated.

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Joseph Curl is a 35-year veteran of politics, having served 12 years as a White House correspondent in a national newspaper. For four years, he was the Drudge Report’s a.m. Editor. Send tips to [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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