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Bill Maher criticizes media coverage of covid pandemic


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Queen Bitch

I love him. I also really liked what he had to say about people calling corona the "chinese virus":

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"Hope Shaming"

i'll save that on my personal vocabulary, thank you mr.

ice heard one side from above
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Maleficent

the ones who have been saying this on this site since march 21st have been laughed at and belittled and called sociopathic and insensitive...

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PunkTheFunk

I have to disagree with him -- he's downplaying things way too much. The situation right now IS dire, and in my opinion the panic is completely justified when bodies are piling up in morgues and the economy is being destroyed before our very eyes. We are living in unprecedented times. The world hasn't experienced a crisis on this scale since World War II.

It's easy for him to say "gee calm down guys people die of the flu each year" when he can retreat to his cushy mansion and sit on his pile of money. Put him in an overwhelmed ICU ward without proper PPE and let's see what he does.

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Supersonic
2 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I have to disagree with him -- he's downplaying things way too much. The situation right now IS dire, and in my opinion the panic is completely justified when bodies are piling up in morgues and the economy is being destroyed before our very eyes. We are living in unprecedented times. The world hasn't experienced a crisis on this scale since World War II.

It's easy for him to say "gee calm down guys people die of the flu each year" when he can retreat to his cushy mansion and sit on his pile of money. Put him in an overwhelmed ICU ward without proper PPE and let's see what he does.

Again, the bolded part louder for the people who think money is more important than people

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3 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

I have to disagree with him -- he's downplaying things way too much. The situation right now IS dire, and in my opinion the panic is completely justified when bodies are piling up in morgues and the economy is being destroyed before our very eyes. We are living in unprecedented times. The world hasn't experienced a crisis on this scale since World War II.

It's easy for him to say "gee calm down guys people die of the flu each year" when he can retreat to his cushy mansion and sit on his pile of money. Put him in an overwhelmed ICU ward without proper PPE and let's see what he does.

Thanks for having the courage to say that. 

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Especially coming from an American it's actually ironic considering the numbers of cases and deaths. 

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PunkTheFunk
2 hours ago, Maleficent said:

the ones who have been saying this on this site since march 21st have been laughed at and belittled and called sociopathic and insensitive...

And rightly so

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Economy

The media taking a real serious issue but still managing to embellish it or fear monger/exagerate with sensationalist headlines or cherry picking the worst photos etc?

 

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4 minutes ago, Jewelsdelove said:

Bill Maher is a c*nt 

I don't know much about the guy so I can't talk about him in general

 

But I agree with 75% (so yeah not all of it) of what he said on this video especially the parts with the media sensasionalism

 

I think he had some valid points

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Leblanc
9 minutes ago, Supersonic said:

Again, the bolded part louder for the people who think money is more important than people

Did you miss the part when they said we were watching the economy being destroyed?

People are rightly so worried about 'money' too. Literally everyone relies on money and acting like this crisis wont put so many people into financial hell and that's not necessarily more or less important than human lives but it sure is important.

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PunkTheFunk
1 minute ago, Economy said:

The media taking a real serious issue but still managing to embellish it or fear monger/exagerate with sensationalist headlines or cherry picking the worst photos etc?

 

shocked gasp GIF by VH1

Sensationalism in the media is a real issue, but for once we are facing a crisis that actually warrants this type of coverage. Now is not the time to say "well the media overhypes everything so it must not be THAT bad, calm down guys." It IS bad. Like, people dying and losing jobs bad.

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