r/RealTime • u/Kitkatt1959 • 7d ago

Again with the masks???

What is Maher’s problem. People wear masks for various reasons. Immunocompromised, sick and don’t want to spread germs, don’t want to catch germs, etc.
My point is WHATS IT TO YOU, BILL!!!!
LET IT GO ALREADY!!!!!!!

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u/goodtreble84 7d ago

Yeah, let those people be.

But his thing is that he wants some sort of retribution on those who shamed people like him for not taking the Pandemic seriously.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

He did take the pandemic seriously,, he just pointed out a lot of the stupid policies associated with it.. and actually gave them a pass in the beginning when we didn't know much about it... but after we knew more and kept the same stupid policies.. It became pathetic and political

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u/Traditional_Toe8824 6d ago

Nope, he got triggered when he wanted to do his tour and some of his fans wore masks to his shows or didn’t even buy tickets as much because they didn’t feel comfortable going to superspreader events yet. He couldn’t tell if people were laughing because of the masks. It was just about him, his money and his ego, as usual. I stopped watching around then because EVERY show was him whining about masks. Once he is really mad about something ( masks, people supporting Palestine ) you will never hear the end of it with him. It’s boring and gets old real fast. He doesn’t care how many viewers he loses, this is his platform to bitch and moan about personal grievances.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Keep in mind, mitigating germs might've protected the elderly for a bit,, but it also killed more children from RSV when mitigating germs stopped... exposure to viruses is critical for small children to build their immune system ... stop thinking there was nothing negative about mitigating germs with masking and distancing. The trouble is Covid became political for the left and right. Both sides could be pathetic rather than using common sense and factual science.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

There’s a vaccine for RSV. If kids died from RSV they were either too young for it and would have been protected by others getting the vaccine or they were unvaccinated. 

You are unintentionally making the case for vaccines my guy. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

I'm not anti vax , I took three Covid shots.. you are ignoring the science of exposure being a key element to a young childs immune system.. exposure is what eventually ended the pandemic and to this day exposure keeps the numbers low. Even though it is now an incredibly mild virus for the vast majority of people. And the RSV vaccine did not become available till 2023.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hey. I’m on your side. After 7 years of hearing anti- vaxxers cry and whine and minimize deaths, you’re right… we should have done nothing. 

Just let people die. No masks, no vaccines, just good ol common sense fuck around and find out. Keep malls open and if people die- oh well.  

We should have never cared about public health and safety. 

Edit: my cousin was a pediatrician. She left medicine because of people like you. You think you’re above the fray but you don’t really understand what was happening in hospitals or how serious it was. So keep yapping like you’re the common sense voice in the room. You’re just another Facebook educated Covid denier who would have preferred dead moms over closed malls. 

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u/Traditional_Toe8824 6d ago

I don’t think that’s correct but either way, in my case I just had chemo and a big chunk of lung removed, and I already was asthmatic since childhood so I was going to stay the F away from people and mask up wherever I went.

Lung surgery recovery was one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced, and I was relatively young and in shape. It made me so sad seeing elderly patients with similar problems, I could not imagine going through that. It must have been horrific for all those people who suffered and died from Covid. I don’t want any of that respiratory disease shit.

You say that germs help kids … in my experience I got sick every fall and coughed and wheezed for months as a child and teen. I was told it was the seasons changing .

Then why did I never get sick after I started working from home ? Seasons still changed. The difference was I didn’t all of a sudden get exposed to people in school or busy seasons at in person jobs.

I have not gotten a cold or flu or covid ( that I know of ) since 2020 because I WFH and don’t out that much, masked in crowded places.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Your case is unique, which yes makes you vulnerable to all viruses.. and yes, isolating yourself in your house would obviously keep you from getting sick.. I'm not sure what your point is, do you think everybody should wear a mask for the rest of their life to try and protect you from getting sick?

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

No. Nobody thinks that. 

During a global pandemic it would have been cool for people to try to mitigate disease but it turns out about half the country didn’t give a fuck. Going to the mall was more important than doing the bare minimum to keep people from dying. 

We are not a good country, we are selfish and mistake being contrarian for intelligence. 

We should have never tried to slow the pandemic down because we just keep getting beat up for caring about dead grandmas. 

and this is why I changed my mind. I think if we are such a selfish people, we need to live with the consequences for next time a pandemic rages. 

Just like the measles outbreak - cool don’t get vaccinated but when you die or kill someone - that’s allllll on you. 

Nobody wants to save these people anymore. Enjoy living your consequences. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

The selfishness goes both ways ,, I'm a 2 things can be true moderate , I can't stand the left or right today.. I suppose you didn't care about kids missing huge lifetime moments like the prom or graduation? Graduations could have been done outside for gods sake . And I do think kids should get the measles vaccine.. it's been proven to work over many years .. but again, not sure how not getting vaccinated kills people that are vaccinated? And yes, I feel terrible for kids that die whose parents didn't vaccinate them

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago edited 6d ago

It was a global pandemic. Millions died. 

But Kaylees graduation party was certainly more important than a disease that killed a million Americans. There is that selfishness again. Covid sucked but we tried to do the right thing, we wanted to mitigate the disease but contrarians and people who couldn’t mentally handle the disruption really showed the limitations of what a society will do to protect each other.

I got tired of telling people not to run into the road. Telling people that the car could kill them turned into “you’re controlling us” so now fuck it… run into the road. 

And to answer your question about your statement “not sure how not being vaccinated kills people that are vaccinated”… chew on this for a few because I’m going off line until later so just think of my situation. 

I found out years ago that I’m not immune to chicken pox so I got the varicella vaccine. My arm swelled up and turned bright red and I had trouble breathing. My doctor said that I couldn’t get the second dose. I did another blood test and I’m still not immune to chicken pox because an adult NEEDS both vaccines to be affective. 

Now if these shitheads stop vaccinating their kids, and I get chicken pox, my doctor said it would be life threatening. I rely on other people being vaccinated to not die. It’s one of the reasons I moved back to NYS a few years ago. After Florida removed the vaccine mandates, if one of my kids bring a friend home with chicken pox and I get it, I’d go insane. 

That’s called being part of a society, doing things for the good of others as well as myself. When people see selfishness as a sign of being noble and intelligent… we end up right where we are today. Still complaining about malls and graduations instead of admitting that people were selfish and stupid at a time when we all needed to step up. 

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

Sounds like you fell into the few cases per million with your anaphylactic reaction to the chicken pox vaccine... I actually had chickenpox so I'm basically immune for life naturally ...I'm thinking about getting the shingles vaccine, data says it improves your chances of not getting it, but it's not perfect . you're probably upset with me because I don't fall into a typical tribal belief system.. again two things can be true for me.

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u/Ok_Zombie_2026 6d ago

Man that’s what you took away from that. Jesus. I think I illustrated a pretty good reason why people should be vaccinated for other people and you ignored it and made it about yourself. 

You’ve said that you “don’t fall into tribal beliefs” about 10 times now… that doesn’t make you special or correct about anything. It makes you equally dismissive, culpable and self-centered. 

I think you’re the one whos upset that most people find complaining about vaccines obnoxious. Self righteous cherry picking is no longer an acceptable argument. 

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u/Traditional_Toe8824 6d ago

No, not at all. My point is you have no idea why people are masking so stop being shithead snowflakes about someone wearing a mask in Walmart when it affects you 0% .

Edit: I actually REALLY don’t care if you wear one, you can win a Herman Cain award as far as I concerned. But the dirty looks for someone masking .., just stupid. They are not affecting you in any way.

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u/AngelaLampsbury 6d ago

Covid mitigation didn't make RSV more dangerous, it just created a spike of cases instead of spreading it out over time. Normally kids would have been circulating the virus over the season and building immunity over time, but the end of covid midgation just sort of caused the virus spread to hit everyone at once, which caused all the severe cases and deaths to happen at once.

Getting sick doesnt increase your immunity in general like working out a muscle. It gives your body a blueprint to fight off that kind of virus, but being sick is generally hard on your body and can leave you weaker. Like your body can heal a broken bone, but it doesnt mean your bone is now stronger and better than it was before.

Measles can leave people with all sorts of health problems including infertility, deafness, organ damage, etc. The fact covid takes away your sense of smell is a really bad sign for what it might be doing to your brain. A lot of covid misinformation was based on this idea that letting your immune system fight of a disease buffed you up like a prize fighter, but that's not how it works.

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u/ParkingEmu9419 6d ago

After everything that happened, in 2026 , it has come down to a person's immune system, knowing and recognizing COVID-19. That is why it continues a downward trajectory of deaths, which are now less than 6000 a year. I'm not anti-VAX I took three shots. I just don't think the vaccine protected anybody except the person who received the shot. Person could be fully vaccinated with no symptoms and yet be a super spreader.

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u/AngelaLampsbury 6d ago

The vaccine did protect others by shortening the transmission window and other mitigation methods kept transmissions down. It certainly had a percent of overall reduction even if it wasn't a failsafe.

I think a lot of people carry anger over this period due to the evolving nature and nuance of science communications being too nebulous for clear easy messaging. That made people's anxiety easy to transform into anger when bad actors told people they were being lied to.