Posted on 02/19/2022 8:17:54 PM PST by lightman
Real Time" host Bill Maher warned of the lasting impacts school mask mandates could have on children and argued that children need to be exposed to the world's germs.
During Friday's installment of the show's "Overtime" segment, the panel discussed the recent recall of three progressive school board members who were ousted for prioritizing woke initiatives, like renaming schools named after former presidents, over the wellbeing of students.
Maher asked former assistant San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins, who is leading the recall effort against current DA Chesa Boudin, if it was time to stop masking children.
"Having a 5-year-old in school right now, I would like to see them go," Jenkins said.
Maher then said of masks on kids, "They don't need them. I mean, kids are the least, least vulnerable. To make these little children into Howie Mandels is what you're doing."
"No, it's true!" Maher exclaimed. "You're creating a generation of Howie Mandels, of little germ-paranoid munchkins. It's so ridic."
CNN analyst John Avlon then chimed in, saying "It's a huge chunk of their lives. I mean, we've got young kids-"
Maher then jumped in to say, "Especially when they're young. I mean, that's the first thing they remember and it's going to get imprinted on them. I mean, kids are gross to begin with, you have to let them be gross. … They need also to get germs in their body!"
Avlon responded, "Up to a point."
Maher shot back, "But it's true! It's how you get healthy! It's how you live with … You can't live in a world by getting rid of all germs or avoiding them! It's insane!"
Avlon agreed but pointed to how the debate over vaccines is "so incredibly dumb" since "we've been doing mandatory vaccines in public schools kids forever," noting the polio vaccine.
"This is not any different, it's just what we need to deal with," he said.
Maher responded, "Well, it couldn't be different if they are less vulnerable to it. Kids are vulnerable to polio. They're not that vulnerable to this one. That's been true from the beginning."
"Of course, anybody can get anything at any time," he continued. "That's possible, but we always have to go by the numbers."
Still, even Bill gets it wrong.
It’s letting them be normal Bill, being unmasked isn’t gross.
I reject the premise.
Is Bill becoming one of us??
Brandon and Brandeau are the last true-blue Branch Covidians.
Almost everyone else is saying “enough already!”
That Avlon dude is a kool-aid drinking dummy. He is claiming an equivalency where there us none.
The current batch of Covid “vaccines” are not vaccines at all.
But they seem to be more Covidious than the actual Covid alone.
No.
I think he meant that kids do gross things. Playing in the dirt is a good thing for kids. Exposure to the great outdoors builds up antibodies in kids. But you have to be able to breathe in those ‘bad’ germs to develop antibodies.
My son, now grown, is immune to eating flies which he loved to do as an infant.
No. He’s a liberal through and through. Wouldn’t trust him.
It’s just becoming fashionable now to be ‘’anti-mask’’.
Covid restrictions are sooooo last year!
Even St. Fauci isn’t getting so much airtime anymore.
I think by the summer this will all be over.
Just in time for the midterms. Get ready for it now.
Get ready for the Democrats to say how much they support the police. That they never supported the Defund movement and they never supported vax mandates.
They’re starting this bs already.
“Get ready for the Democrats to say how much they support the police. That they never supported the Defund movement and they never supported vax mandates.
They’re starting this bs already.”
Yes, they will inundate us with gaslighting - and the usual useful idiots will fall for it.
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