COVID-19 cases are dropping rapidly as the pandemic enters an endemic stage with the Omicron variant being a mild illness, so many are dropping the masks they’ve grown to despise. But on Monday’s edition of ABC’s The View, the unhinged and maskless coven raged against comedian Bill Maher for daring to make anti-mask jokes calling out their ridiculousness at this point. The co-hosts even suggested we should get used to wearing masks all the time just like with airport security after 9/11.
“Comedian” and co-host Whoopi Goldberg lashed out at Maher by trying to compare him to anti-vaxxers like Robert Kennedy Jr: “[It’s not ] just people on the fringe either who are speaking out like this, and over the weekend, Bill Maher made a case for people who are vaccinated, boosted and have been following the rules since all of this started.”
After playing soundbite of Maher making jokes about not wanting to “live in your paranoid world anymore” and how “I'm not bananas. You are,” Goldberg was filled with false righteous indignation as she accused him of not caring about peoples’ lives:
GOLDBERG: That's not really funny to people who have lost their kids to this vaccine.
JOY BEHAR: No.
GOLDBERG: Or people who lost family members or dear friends to this.
It's just, you know, listen. Nobody on the planet really wants to go through this. This is not something we're doing because it's, you know, sexually gratifying. This is what we're doing to protect our families…
“How dare you be so flippant, man,” she angrily exclaimed as she spread misinformation about the danger the virus poses to kids.
Co-host Joy Behar chimed in by complaining that there are people like Maher in America who “act like they're over it, like a relationship. I'm over it. I don't feel like seeing him anymore.”
Behar would go on to ask “why turn their wrath on the mask mandates?” She also decried Maher for having the nerve to make jokes about Dr. Anthony Fauci. “Why not get mad at the people who are refusing to get vaccinated? So that these variants can live another day,” she whined, ignoring the fact the Delta and Omicron variants didn’t originate in America.
Immediately after Goldberg relinquished the floor, co-host Sara Haines argued that Americans should get used to wearing masks like they got used to TSA security at airports following 9/11. “There's a new normal,” she said. “In the beginning, post-9/11, people didn't want to fly and security measures felt like, “how do we do this,” you know? And now it's the norm.”
In reality, TSA screenings are just security theater and internal reviews show they miss over 80 percent of the contraband sent through.
Eventually, Haines flaunted just how broken she was from the pandemic, declaring: “I may never ride a subway again without a mask, I may never go indoors to big crowds and never feel comfortable without a mask."
It’s worth noting that every cast member on The View is vaccinated, boosted, and most of them have already contracted COVID-19.
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ABC’s The View
January 24, 2022
11:06:04 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: Just people on the fringe either who are speaking out like this, and over the weekend, Bill Maher made a case for people who are vaccinated, boosted and have been following the rules since all of this started. Take a look.
[Cuts to video]
BILL MAHER: I don't want to live in your paranoid world anymore. Your masked paranoid world, you know, you go out. It's silly now, you know, you mask, you have to have a card. You have to have a booster. They scan your head. [Laughter] Like you're a cashier and I'm a bunch of bananas. I'm not bananas. You are.
[Cuts back to live]
GOLDBERG: That's not really funny to people who have lost their kids to this vaccine
JOY BEHAR: No.
GOLDBERG: Or people who lost family members or dear friends to this.
It's just, you know, listen. Nobody on the planet really wants to go through this. This is not something we're doing because it's, you know, sexually gratifying. This is what we're doing to protect our families, and you don't have to do it, but stay away from everybody because if you are the one who's not paying attention, and you're coughing and sneezing, you don't want to -- then stay out of the public, man. This is not -- nobody wants this. I don't want it, and I think he's forgetting that people are still at risk who cannot get vaccinated, people who can't get the – little kids under the age of five.
ANA NAVARRO: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Or people with health conditions. How dare you be so flippant, man?!
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: They act like they're over it, like, a relationship. I'm over it. I don't feel like seeing him anymore.
SARA HAINES: I don't think we’re to the post-mask part because I think there's a prudence we've learned with the mask, the hand sanitizing that kind of like 9/11 with flying is always going to be here now. There's a new normal.
In the beginning, post-9/11, people didn't want to fly and security measures felt like, “how do we do this,” you know? And now it's the norm.
I think some of the things we learned in this pandemic will stay the same. I may never ride a subway again without a mask, I may never go indoors to big crowds and never feel comfortable without a mask. And that's up to me to do that.
(…)
BEHAR: But why turn their wrath on the mask mandates? Another comment that Bill made against Dr. Fauci, why turn their wrath on that? Why not get mad at the people who are refusing to get vaccinated? So that these variants can live another day.
(…)
