Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - 8/20/21

[Lemon Lyman]

5. Yup

He's being disingenuous about the Covid vaccine(s) & booster(s), given that he's half an anti-vaxxer. He's not Robert F Kennedy levels of nuts, but he's skeptical about vaccines. He's one of these, "I don't trust everything that's in it and I live a very healthy life and have a very healthy immune system, so I don't need a vaccine."

He kept saying he got the vaccine for the team. Meaning he didn't want it or think it was necessary, but he did it for others. Now he doesn't want a booster. He had Covid back in May. He said he felt nothing whatsoever. He said the vaccine "probably" helped him not get sick.

I'm all for living healthy and trying to have a healthy immune system. But I think he overestimates how healthy he really is and/or how walled off he is from some sort of bad health outcome. You can live your life eating only organic foods and trying to stay as lean as possible -- and still end up with Covid or a disease. He's sorta' holier than thou when it comes to health. And he's especially so re: obesity. Obesity is huge problem throughout the world. But he's a guy who's never been a pound overweight in his life. He's probably more of a naturally thin type (processes carbs well). He's also admitted he doesn't really care about food. Some people aren't so lucky. I don't care about alcohol. Some people aren't so lucky (and are more prone to be addicted to it).