<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher called out the media, health officials, and the government in his closing monologue late Friday, accusing them of taking a “scared straight” approach to informing Americans about COVID-19 instead of simply giving “it to me straight.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The liberal “Real Time” host cited a Dartmouth University study, showing that major media networks in the United States reported nearly 90% bad news. Maher said that, as a result of spin from the media, politicians, and health officials, many Americans have been drastically misinformed about the pandemic and the risks associated with it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After taking a shot at Republicans — saying that one-third of Republicans in a recent poll didn’t know that people can spread COVID-19 while asymptomatic — Maher took aim at liberals, whom he referred to jokingly as the “high-information, by-the-science people.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“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 1-5%. Forty-one percent of Democrats thought it was over 50%. Another 28% put the chances at 20-49%,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So 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,” said Maher, noting that the highest share of current school closures are in blue states.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Later in the closing monologue, Maher pointed out that COVID-19 infection rates in Texas, which has a Republican governor, have declined since the state lifted its pandemic restrictions. “But to many liberals, that can’t be right, because Texas and beach-loving Florida have Republican governors,” said Maher.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But life is complicated,” remarked Maher, before featuring a photo of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on-screen. “Apparently, the governor is also a voracious consumer of the scientific literature, and maybe that’s why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way better than the governor of New York,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Real Time” host’s audience then applauded DeSantis for protecting the elderly residents in his state.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Those are just facts. I know it&#8217;s irresponsible of me to say them,” quipped Maher. “Look, here’s what I’m saying. I don’t want politics mixed in with my medical decisions.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you lie to people, even for a very good cause, you lose their trust. I think a lot of people died because of Trump’s incompetence, and I think a lot of people died because talking about obesity had become a third-rail in America,” Maher later added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He concluded: “If the media and the doctors made a point to keep saying, ‘but there’s something you can do’ — but we’ll never know, because they never did. Because the last thing you want to do is say something insensitive. We would literally rather die.”</span></p>
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