Bill Maher: The pandemic didn’t do the societal damage. The way we handled the pandemic did 

"This pisses me off. The pandemic didn't do that. The way we handled the pandemic did that!"

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On Friday, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher noted that it wasn’t the COVID-19 pandemic that caused massive learning loss, it was the way government handled it.

Quoting a report, Maher said, "The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading.’"

"See, right away, I’ve gotta say, this pisses me off," he said. "I see these headlines all the time."

“The pandemic didn’t do that. The way we handled the pandemic did that," Maher insisted.

"The pandemic certainly was a thing but let’s not just say the pandemic," he added. "Because it was not written in stone that we had to handle it the way we did."

Maher continued to explain the damage done during the pandemic.

The host checked many boxes, “ACT scores are the lowest in 30 years, anxiety and depression way up. The body mass index increased, doubled for kids 2-19. Drug overdose deaths, murders way up, inflation at a 40-year high, domestic violence increased. Oh, and my favorite, car crashes. They couldn’t figure this out… finally… the experts said, you know what it is? People just went (expletive) mental. They went just nuts. They’re like, I’m home, the (expletive) kids are here all the time, my stupid husband is here all the time, I’m just going to take it out on the highway, and they did.”

Maher also noted that “Florida did well” during the pandemic by focusing on seniors and those most vulnerable as opposed to other states.

(h/t Breitbart and CNS News)