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Seventy-eight percent of those hospitalized, ventilated, or dead from COVID have been overweight. But since I last mentioned it, a stunning statistic was reported. I know you’ve heard me pound this fried drumstick before. And I think a lot of people died because talking about obesity had become a third rail in America. I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence. Maher noted the one risk factor no one talked about enough, one that individuals can control: In reality, President Trump referred to UV light as a disinfectant, as Maher did. Unfortunately, he went back to the debunked story about President Trump telling people to ingest bleach. Maher might have just given the competition a boost.Įmphatically, Maher said he did not want politics mixed in with his medical decisions and gave examples of how highly politicized the pandemic has become. His profile within the Republican Party has risen over the last six months, and he is considered a top-tier candidate for 2024 by left-leaning outlets like Politico. That’s an amazing admission for Maher, given that DeSantis is the number one target of the national media and Democrats. I know it’s irresponsible of me to say them. But, apparently, the governor is also a voracious consumer of the scientific literature.Īnd maybe that’s why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than did the Governor of New York. I know we like to think of Florida as only middle-school teachers on bath salts having sex with their students in front of an alligator. I’ve read what the governor of Florida reads. Then, using what might be the worst picture in the Getty library of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, he busted the narrative on COVID management:īut too many liberals say that can’t be right, because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors. Citing Texas lifting their COVID restrictions and having lower cases three weeks later, he credits people getting outdoors. He flashed his science cred, noting that the beach is one of the best places you can be because sunlight is the best disinfectant, and vitamin D is the key to a robust immune system. Maher mocked The Atlantic for saying news outlets needed to stop using pictures of the beach for COVID stories because they give people the wrong idea. So, if the right-wing media bubble has to own things like climate-change denial, shouldn’t liberal media have to answer “how did your audience wind up believing such a bunch of crap about COVID?” All of which explains why today the states with the highest share of schools that are still closed are all blue states. Almost 70% of Democrats are wildly off on this key question, and also have a greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID too, and the mortality rate among children. Forty-one percent of Democrats thought it was over 50% Another 28% put the chances at 20 to 49%. Like the third of Republicans who believe it couldn’t be spread by someone showing no symptoms.īut what about liberals? You know, the high-information, by-the-science people? In a recent Gallup survey, Democrats did much worse than Republicans in getting the right answer to the fundamental question: “What are the chances that someone who gets COVID will need to be hospitalized.” The answer is between one and five percent. And we do know conservatives have some loopy ideas about COVID. Ask anyone who works at Hillary’s pizza parlor. Liberals often mock the Republican misinformation bubble, which of course is very real. When all of our sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, you wind up with a badly misinformed population. Maher was not shy about exposing the apparent agenda, even if he had to take swipes at the left: national media reported almost 90% bad news. Maher called out the Dartmouth study that found that other countries mixed the good news and the bad news while the U.S. “Give it to me straight, doc, ’cause in the long run, that always works better than ‘you can’t handle the truth.'” Maher said he understands that doctors will sometimes exaggerate to get people to finish a medication, and politicians lie to cover their mistakes.Īnd in the media, it is pretty clear that if it bleeds, it leads. He said the media, the government, and the medical establishment took a “scared straight” approach to the pandemic to get people to comply with the recommendations.
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