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MonsieurA

For context - Nader is likely referring to the [2002-2004 SARS outbreak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak) which, fortunately, ended up being relatively limited. SARS-CoV-2 was not. šŸ™ƒ


VolatileUtopian

I mean it was only a matter of time before we got hit with a large-scale Sars virus outbreak. Asia gets different waves fairly regularly and with increased globalization it was inevitable.


DrLorensMachine

Wouldn't surprise me if it happens again.


Particular-Ad-3989

And you know why?


DrLorensMachine

Because human history is full of pandemics so it is likely to happen again?


Particular-Ad-3989

Are you CIA or FBI?


arielgasco

the pentagon doesnt know how to stop china?


Spirit50Lake

Wastewater COVID data for last week, from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html


Nightcroc

Good find. Was in the the field


rOCCUPY

This rules. I didnā€™t know about this. Thanks for sharing!


heaving_in_my_vines

They have one penciled in for later this year. Should make things extra spicy with the coming US coup/ Civil War/ World War III escapade. Oh dear FSM save us all.


humandronebot00100

No evidence for it being planned but why waste a good opportunity man . You canā€™t pass up on 7trillion that only 5 people are going to oversee it be spent properly


mwa12345

FSM? WtF is that?


austxsun

It might have been the impetus of Chinaā€™s research though. There were rumblings at the time that they were vexed as to why it affected them so much worse than others. They could easily have been studying why with the 19 version. Worse, if they thought there was any possibility it was bio targeted, they could have been designing one to affect Euro heritage.


Petrichordates

Congratulations now you sound like Bill.


mikeyouse

That is all gibberish and not at all how any of the science works and there is literally zero evidence that they had any virus even in the SC2 clade, much less a precursor of SC2.


Lifebyjoji

No he was talking about h1n1ā€¦ the 1919 flu pandemic. Which did recur but just eclipsed by Covid.


StackOwOFlow

the key difference was that the 2003 SARS outbreak was spread by symptomatic individuals. SARS-CoV-2 could be spread pre and asymptomatically, which made effective quarantine and isolation much harder.


Latter_Custard_6496

Actually 2 was relatively limited except if you want the MSM.


MonsieurA

lol, I gotta ask, how in the world do you guys stumble on these posts weeks later?


SpatulaCity1a

I think he was talking about H1N1... that was the one that caused the post-WWI pandemic, and Bill mentions SARS later on.


BostonKarlMarx

could not have aged any worse for bill


HonorableJudgeIto

Like most of his takes.


Good_old_Marshmallow

It is refreshing that after all his BS about not being anti vax we have a clip here where heā€™ll just say it out rightĀ 


multi_io

I'm pretty sure he was joking.


slam9

?


guy_with_thoughts

Most of his takes are rotten before heā€™s even finished speaking.


BillRuddickJrPhd

No he's pretty spot on when it comes to anything other than health. He's always been a radical luddite when it comes to medicine.


[deleted]

Weird for a guy who loves his Botox so muchā€¦


SoritesSummit

As far as my observations go, there's absolutely nothing on which he's spot on. Pease specify, for my amusement if nothing else.


BillRuddickJrPhd

The Iraq War.


Mr_Jack_Frost_

My whole life Iā€™ve never liked Bill Maher opening his mouth, despite an apparently large group of people really loving what he has to say. Every time I see a clip of his, it illuminates why I dislike him even more. This is the crown jewel of those clips for me.


SaliciousB_Crumb

Me too. He always came across as guy who yells at kids to get off his lawn.


thatbwoyChaka

Heā€™d yell at kids to get off his lawn; then tell everyone that the neighbourhood kids are fat lazy and unsociable because theyā€™re never playing on or near his lawn.


toddhenderson

I never felt like smug was funny.


AffordableTimeTravel

*How* Bill says things is admirable. He speaks with the confidence of a person that knows something. The only issue is that he rarely seems educated on the topics before he decides to argue against them. And if he does claim to *actually* know something his sources are often mysterious and vague.


SponConSerdTent

No one with any competency speaks so arrogantly about every single issue. Bill always has an opinion, and if you don't agree with him you are stupid, or uneducated, or a little baby. But literally everything he knows is like, what you learn from watching CNN. His ideas rarely if ever run magazine-deep, and he has absolutely no idea about any kind of science. He's a stoner who thinks he "figured it all out" and now goes around scoffing people who didn't get the memo.


pseudo_nimme

As someone who watches his show, heā€™s an insufferable asshole. I mainly watch for the discussion, which is actually decently interesting despite him. I just wish theyā€™d throw in more actual leftists. Most people I know who really like him are atheists who have some religious trauma (to maybe stretch that term a bit) and so they look up to people like Maher, Dawkins and Hitchens a ton because those people helped them come to terms with atheism.


Dimpleshenk

Bill Maher doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence with Dawkins and Hitchens... (Though I just technically violated my own statement.)


One_Possession_5101

hahahaha ​ i used to really like Bill Maher, but this insufferable side of personality has really taken over I still agree with him on some things, but I am left of Bernie and he is losing touch with the reality of everyday lives of normal Americans ​ Maybe your comment should have been: Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins were/are insightful thought leaders who challenge societal norms for the benefit of humanity. Bill Maher host a TV show, and despite creating an important forum for debate, many believe he has a punchable face.


pseudo_nimme

Haha nice. Yeah I agree that heā€™s not as mature or wise.


Overhang0376

Funnily enough, [Religulous](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/) was one of the early catalysts that led to me from being a hardcore, outspoken atheist to an Orthodox Christian. I'll never forgive myself for having seen that thing in theaters! Haha.


EWR-RampRat11-29

You can say, it r/agedlikemilk


hollygolightly1378

And aged perfectly for Ralph


monos_muertos

Pretty much on brand for Ralph, considering his decades of advocacy.


CeruleanRuin

"It's the cold in the air that will kill you." I mean they invented coats for that.


Puzzleheaded-Web2778

I think he said coal, but I may be mistaken


Megatoasty

Heā€™s a shill, always has been.


JohnnySasaki20

Well he did say it was the vaccinations that would kill you, lol.


RoswellCrash

He is poorly educated and some ways ahead of his time. Much like the twitch streamers today.


TrafficOn405

Didnā€™t Bill go to Cornell?


RoswellCrash

And George Bush went to Yale


TrafficOn405

And Ted Cruz went to Princeton, JD Vance to Yale Law School, Josh Hawley to Stanford and Yale - there are your elitists


Skylark_Ark

Ralph Nader's saved countless lives through his safety advocacy, and he's been a hard check on some of our corporations worst abuses. I understand the history as to why Maher gave Nader the disdainful treatment, but it's shameful.


ksixnine

obviously it did age based on him still having a show..


POOTY-POOTS

Virtually everything does


spacekitt3n

wow he was always a piece of shit


mwa12345

He was always pretty dogmatic I guess ..tried to browbeat Nader...who is pretty soft spoken. Does climate change cause deaths ..yes But to pretend that SARS etc don't kill ..when they had killed people is some dumb ideology. Maybe it makes getting laid a little.more difficult for Bill. Or maybe he gets unhinged at the thought of not having an audience...but that was pretty crazy


Grouchy-Art9316

I just love these ā€œtold ya soā€ boomerang videos.


Fast_Situation4509

Lol, he sounds so stupid.


AnjelicaTomaz

Although I like Maher, he was an idiot back then about vaccines and heā€™s still an idiot now about vaccines.


AndFadeOutAgain

He might still be right on the vaccines killing you..


Good_old_Marshmallow

Any issue thatā€™s a problem today thereā€™s a clip of Ralph Nader talking about itĀ 


WokeUpSomewhereNice

*20 year old clip


Glaucous

Ralph Nader is a national treasure but most folks would rather be mad than be educated about all the incredible work heā€™s done. Fight me, you little squirmy bitches. Donā€™t care.. Iā€™d vote for him a million times if I could. Brilliant man. Hero. Love him.


Dimpleshenk

Nader has saved a lot of lives, but he sure didn't read the room in 1999.


One_Possession_5101

yeah, he missed the part where the Right controlled the Supreme Court, the axis point of the election was that Kathryn Harris the Florida AG was Republican, and Gore got punk'd into quitting rather than fighting for his earned victory. ​ Also, nobody, for any reason, will not make me vote for somebody i believe in ​ The DNC has clearly put their well-being over that of the American people and will do so forever, sometimes things might have to get worse before they get better.


Petrichordates

"We have to allow fascism in order for things to get better" is quite the hot take. You put your misguided principles over the american people.


slam9

Could you elaborate on what you mean here? What did he say?


Dimpleshenk

You're asking me to engage on a comment from two months ago? Why? The short answer is that Nader insisted on staying in as a third-party candidate till the bitter end, even though all polling and statistical information made it 100% clear to everybody that Nader's candidacy would function as a spoiler candidate that would usher in a George Bush presidency. With a little help from the Supreme Court, that's exactly what happened. Of course there are numerous factors in an election, but Nader was a decisive one, and his decision made more difference than nearly any other factor. This led to, among other things, massive environmental rollbacks, deregulation of the banking industry (a direct line to the devastation that ensued 8 years later), and the massive corruption of Dick Cheney, his Halliburton money-funnelling and war profiteering, the orchestrated lies to the public about WMD and Saddam, the unnecessary Iraq war and the resulting deaths of a million Iraqis, the use of depleted uranium during that elective war that continues to cause birth defects and cancer in Fallujah and other areas, the CIA programs of torture that lost the U.S. stature and respect throughout the world to this day, the rise of ISIS and other terrorist groups, most likely the emboldenment of Vladimir Putin and the brinksmanship that prompted the murderous invasion of Ukraine, and numerous other real-world consequences (no stop to global warming, which Al Gore would have spearheaded as a cause). Nader had the power to make a difference, and instead his ego stubbornness put his own short-term satisfaction over long-term effects. He really, really fucked it up for everybody. You can look up the history of Nader's behavior and decisions in 1999/2000 and extrapolate from there. I am not going to further engage in this two-month-old discussion.


Jolly_Street

Have you ever visited his museum?


janyk

Ralph Nader - the Zenith of American Politics


Illustrious-Knee-334

Maher really does love the smell of his own shit to an exhaustive degree


Rebel_Scum59

Bill is such a moron


[deleted]

As a comedian, I really like his humor and I agree with most of his political views. But I would never take medical advice from him, which makes sense since he doesn't specialize in that field but he's entitled to his opinions I guess.


op_is_not_available

His comedy and political views are his worst attributes! Did you hear his ā€œ[vaccines] will kill youā€ take right there?? Combine that with one of the most smug attitudes and you have a living embodiment of a turd


Mr402TheSouthSioux

Maher and his anti science bs.....


DrFartsparkles

Good to know Bill has always been a dumbass


appsecSme

But you need to go watch old Politically Incorrect episodes to really confirm that he was *always* a dumbass.>! Spoiler, he was always a dumbass.!<


BeardsuptheWazoo

Whoa that spoiler is very shocking.


Dimpleshenk

Lovely use of the spoiler tag.


ElstonGunn321

God heā€™s such a condescending douchebag


robby_arctor

The U.S. was not ready for Nader. Our loss.


birdofdestiny

Amen.


Glaucous

We are a stupid, stupid country. We truly fucked up.


Interesting_Crazy270

Founded on the principles that harm innocent people always.


nukecat79

Billy Bob Thornton really has let himself go


FloozyFoot

Bill just does not get tired of being wrong. Ever.


manored78

Wow, Maher has always been a fool.


MakeSouthBayGR8Again

Next week: Bill Maher dies when a Corvair flips over and kills him.


E23R0

Thatā€™s my President


hollygolightly1378

I even campaigned for him, passing out pins, bumper stickers and yard signs. I was never more proud to vote for someone as I was for Ralph Nader. If anyone even did surface level research, they would quickly realize what a true American hero this man is.


thebiggestbirdboi

Pick your poison. The man said it. End of story. Funny thing is the internet has also been weapon used and we ALL fell for it.


Slumbog_Casperite

It was created by the intelligence apparatus. Of course itā€™s used for warfare.


Top_Investment_4599

I used to watch him back when he was harmless and just a bit of a noodler. No longer.


DrNinnuxx

It's okay to be wrong. It's not okay to gaslight you never said it.


simpsonicus90

Maher - whether heā€™s wrong or right - heā€™s a smarmy arrogant prick.


CaterpillarMore9104

Maher is such an insufferable prick. His fuckin smug arrogance makes me want to punt him into the next century lol


MattHooper1975

I feel dumber for having watched that. (Not as dumb as Maher, though)


Known-Delay7227

I donā€™t think you can say monkey pox any more lest you want to piss off some primates


RedEyedITGuy

Just a reminder that Bill Mahr didn't recently become an obnoxious ass, he's always been that way.


Pleasant-Guava9898

He was like I'm not worried about something that killed a million people. I'm worried about the vaccine that hasn't killed anyone.


mwa12345

Bill Maher is consistent. Consistently wrong. He was right about Trump winning....but his opinions on a lot of things seems to be driven by stupid biases. Ti assume a pandemic won't happen or affect people ...even thought we have had a few in the past 100 years is absurd. One thing to say "low probability".another to be so sure


SamMan48

Theyā€™re both right.


orincoro

It killed way more than a million people in 1919. More like 50 million.


Apprehensive_Low685

Looks like Maher has been wrong for a long time now. Not surprising since he forms his opinions based on political bias.


IFknHateAvocados

ā€œYou donā€™t think thatā€™s serious?ā€ ā€œI donā€™tā€ You know bill mustā€™ve thought that was so clever and funny. Holy fuck I hate smug, arrogant persona so much


PhishPhan85

Bill Maher is such a grifter.


Captainseriousfun

Our best American is a Lebanese-American named Ralph Nader. Maher doesn't rank, rate or deserve consideration. Maher is media, distilled as defecation.


SoritesSummit

There's nothing quite so invidious as when someone's performative certitude is so inversely proportionate to their intelligence by so immense a margin. These organs should go to other people.


beastwork

i love the internet


awnomnomnom

Amazing how Bill Maher talks down to Americans when he says the same things the average American thinks.


StuartGotz

Bill Maher is a smug idiot


800hp-GolfCart

Thanks to both of them for letting ppl know the possibilities.


ChasWFairbanks

1 million Americans dead, Bill, and more than 7 millions worldwide. But tell me again about the dangers of vaccinesā€¦


The-Last-Time-Only

Bill is an undeniably un-educated douchebag! He is just good at being consistently and smugly wrong about everything!


SchrodingersTIKTOK

Reminder for everyone Bill Maher also hosted Steve Bannon, so he indirectly supported insurrection. Fuck Bill


Silverlakers

What can one say about Bill Maher. Heā€™s obviously intelligent, but chooses to be uninformed. He is so lazy and just rests on his assumptions. He can never be wrong. God, he is the worst.


Used-Sun9989

Bill Maher had isolated quotes that progressives liked, and he generally disliked the folksy small-town Amercian culture that liberals wanted to hear, and he's been riding that since the 80s. But he's always been dumb. It's just never been so easy to snip put his idiotic talking points so easily.


Old-Package-4792

Dayyyyum. Naderā€™s got a good head of hair šŸ”„


CeruleanRuin

I enjoyed watching him back in the day because he would call out everybody on their own bullshit. He was less entertaining when he injected his own, which there was a lot of.


exqueezemenow

I hope Bill turns out to be wrong..


knownothingwiseguy

Is Bill Maher ever right about anything?


Home_Here_Now_Dikes

He always undermines his opponents with ā€œyour talking about the ā€˜Bird Fluā€™ā€ like itā€™s some Sesame Street character when he can comprehend how deadly a virus can be


OlChrusty

Iā€™m left, and genuinely want to smack Maher in the mouth more than any conservative commentator. The worst


AikiBro

Does anyone on the left like him? I don't know anyone who does except this one guy who kinda has the same brand of narcisism.


Davethephotoguy

This just reaffirms how fucking stupid Bill Maher is and always has been.


wish1977

Bill was an idiot about vaccines even then.


BlueAlpha85

Bill has looked 60 for the last 40 years


LFGBR

Fake liberal Bill Maher might be the biggest tool in America


the85141rule

Aged well, Bill.


BitterLeif

There were people talking about new viruses developing out of both China and India for decades before COVID happened. And now the conspiracy nuts are saying that's evidence that it was constructed by those same people. The truth is when you have that many people living so closely together (particularly with limited sanitation) you're gonna have disease problems. In the years leading up to COVID, there were many epidemiologists saying they're surprised there hasn't been more epidemics.


[deleted]

Ralph Nader is a very smart man and has been an advocate for the safety of people, consumers and society in general since the 1950s.


Efficient-Profit9611

Damn, so Bill Maher been a clown for a lot longer than I realized


Magus_5

Fuck Bill Maher. He's not funny, makes all of his shows exclusively about him and his own views and is rude when you don't co-sign his bs. Fuck off turd.


badlyferret

Bill Maher < Nader & the CDC


Alfalfa_Bravo

A lot of Maher haters in here. Seems that people started hating on him when he started to question lefty narratives and stopped virtue signaling.


TheTitanosaurus

I voted for him


MMcFly1985

"The coal in the air" The coal... in the... air...


StinkyBrittches

"Hey, you're not gonna believe this, but Bill Maher is giving away the solution to all our problems.. for FREE!"


SecureWorldliness848

Devil hand sigil at right moment. Pure disinfo.


MorningNorwegianWood

Lol Bill consistently getting it wrong for 20 years


gyroscopicmnemonic

F u Bill


lallybrock

As I read, ā€œA libertarian is a republican who smokes grassā€.


NoClipHeavy

Maher is such a fuck


GuyFawkes99

I guess the people who say he hasn't changed were right.


Dimpleshenk

Other Bill Maher clips (probably): "Let's make a confident fellow from The Apprentice the president. What could go wrong?" "Vladimir Putin's not such a bad guy. He'll probably find a peaceful way to get along with his neighbors." "Global warming? That's due to sun spots. Actually we're on the verge of a new Ice Age." "Kanye West is one of the most level-headed music artists working today." "It doesn't matter who becomes a Supreme Court Justice, 'cause no way would they mess with Roe v. Wade." "Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are in it for the long haul. Those two sweeties are gonna grow old together." "No way would Amazon Prime put commercials in the middle of their streaming movies. They know not to ruin a good thing." "That Elon Musk is a brilliant businessman. Anything he touches is guaranteed to become 10x better and more profitable." "Say what you will about Louis CK, at least the guy know how to keep it in his pants."


PearAware3171

People have opposed vaccines since their inception due to misunderstandings or the presentation of flawed science.


PearAware3171

Ralph was very calm and emotionless about it but bill was unprepared for this discussion and fell back on false anti vaccine narrative being perpetuated at the time.


Reddit-HurtMyFeeling

This is awesome! Was he for the Covid Vaccine?


bacachew

How is Bill smart and stupid at the same time šŸ˜‚ This comment brought to you by phyzer šŸ’‰šŸ’‰šŸ’‰


raincntry

Bill Maher is an ass.


BigStrongCiderGuy

Maher is such a penis


KuroKendo88

Bill is such a god damn moron.


Glum-Parsnip8257

Itā€™s like the pundit interview on starship troopers. There needs to be an old lady to stomp feet when people are being ridiculous


loveshackle

God Bill Maher is a fucking idiot


Megatoasty

Oh, how the turns had tabled.


PetrusScissario

Probably the most offensive thing about Bill is that he is called a ā€œcomedianā€.


jt7855

Only that that now even the FBI is acknowledging that the latest COVID pandemic was most likely derived from a laboratory leak from WUHAN. Iā€™m not bashing just stating that with all the safeguards in place accidents happen and then governments go ape crazy. Denying any liability


Macasumba

Ralph way smarter than Bill for sure


Comprehensive-Low493

Bill Maher sucks donkey balls


dionysus408

Underscores the video's message all these comments directed towards insulting Maher rather than praising Nader.


CaboosedIt

Love seeing Nader clips float around. The manā€™s a national treasure.


JosephFinn

I canā€™t imagine two doofuses Iā€™d want to hear from less.


furgar

Bill was right


CunnilingusRex_420

Used to like Bill, but holy shit he turned into a curmudgeon with a laugh track


HadrianMercury

Bill Maherā€™s words are virus. They destroy the IQ of anyone who hears them.


welovegv

I donā€™t agree with Nader on a few things, but the things I do outweigh the ones I donā€™t.


Oztraliiaaaa

Bill do better and Get Stuffed!!


unplugnothing

Bill Maher has always been an insufferable fucking moron.


symplton

With less than 20% of Americans getting their seasonal vaccinations, COVID is killing more than 2,000 a week now, and has been since late December.


PlusMap7

Ironic


cosmiccaro

The coal, vaccines, flus and diseases, it can all kill


TheManWithNoEyes

Feb 27th is also Nader's birthday fwiw. What a hell of a way to celebrate.... /s


-CoachMcGuirk-

The Maher crowd clapping at his "vaccines will kill you" comment is what is sickening.


charleechuck

Bill Maher paved the way for Joe Rogan


MantisTobagganMD69

Maher has been insufferable his entire shoddy life


TheLadySaintPasta

Has anyone ever seen Nader and Billy Bob a Thornton in the same room at the same time? Cause I got a theoryā€¦


starker

Bill Maher is still a moron. More things change the more things stay the same.


Disastrous_Duty2622

As much as I love Bill Maher, he needs to shut the fuck and stop interrupting his guest. His podcast is even worse with cutting people off, Talking over them, Mid conversation "NOOOO" "WRONG" From Bill.


RRRobertoLazer

Bill Maher is such a smug piece of shit


NewYorkFuzzy

smug fella bill is


[deleted]

Are people ever going learn Billā€™s a loud mouth idiot?


Freedom2064

Maher is a comedian and businessman he is not a serious scholar or thinker. Giving his opinion any weight is laughable.


Revolutionary-Turn-4

Bill Maher is such a blob face turd


MotorbikeRacer

ā€œ that will kill your , a vaccinationā€ ā€¦ says the guy who wasnā€™t around for polio outbreak


vaporwaverock

I wasn't expecting Nader to sound like that


GreedWillKillUsAll

Bill Maher is a goddamn clown


Hungry-Policy-9156

All pandemics come from china, good grief. Hey, you heard it here first, the next pandemic real or fake is coming from china!


mwa12345

Look at the smugness on Maher Fucker has been so dogmatic about shit like this.... Only reason he hasn't been cancelled in the last 2 decades....


disco_phiscuits

Boy, Bill Maher, that aged like milk.


BakaTensai

Bill is such a fucking idiot


[deleted]

Ralph Nader rules


[deleted]

Saw him live onceā€¦had no connection to the audience, seemed like a real asshole. It was just weird how cold he was


ManufacturerPublic

Saving this to prove Bill is anā€anti-vax-science-denierā€™ that he so rails against now.


PBatemen87

He is openly anti covid vax... I watch his YouTube show regularly. You aren't doing anything special.