I may disagree with Bill Maher on most policy issues, but I have to commend him for always giving it straight.
New Rule: Give It to Me Straight, Doc | Real Time with Bill MaherWhat I found most interesting, and disturbing, is that he sites polling that shows nearly 70% of Dems think the hospitalization rate for C-19 is over 20%, with most thinking it is over 50%, when it is really only between 1% and 5%. Republicans, not surprisingly, have a much better grasp on the actual C-19 numbers and rates.
The sheer amount of hysteria created over this by the media is going to take a long time for some to get over.
To that point, here is an article published in Slate recently,
It’s About Time for Us to Stop Wearing Masks Outside. Now the reason I post this is not for the content of the article, because honesty I have yet to wear a mask outside, but because of the visceral responses to it from lefties. I could see at the beginning of this thinking it was necessary to wear a mask outside, but now, after all the research, the idea is absurd. Yet, so many people have been completely mentally broken in the last year that this article was met with the equivalent indignation you would expect to see against one promoting genocide.
The mental fallout from this is going to be severe for a lot of people.