{"id":1697841,"date":"2022-10-17T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697841"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:18:56","slug":"bill-maher-says-overreaction-to-covid-caused-huge-learning-loss-and-inflation-not-the-pandemic-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-says-overreaction-to-covid-caused-huge-learning-loss-and-inflation-not-the-pandemic-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Says Overreaction to COVID Caused Huge Learning Loss and Inflation &#8211; Not the Pandemic Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-maher-says-overreaction-to-covid-caused-huge-learning-loss-and-inflation-not-the-pandemic-itself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time,\u201d host Bill Maher stated that it wasn\u2019t the coronavirus pandemic that caused massive learning loss, \u201cthe way we handled the pandemic did that. The pandemic certainly was a thing but let\u2019s not just say the pandemic. Because it was not written in stone that we had to handle it the way we did.\u201d And that the overreaction to the pandemic is also to blame for 40-year high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Maher said, \u201cI thought we overreacted to COVID. Now, we\u2019re getting some information, after a while, we have time to find out just how bad the collateral damage has been. Here [are] just a few cases: The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading. See, right away I\u2019ve got to say, this pisses me off. I see these headlines all the time, the pandemic didn\u2019t do that, the way we handled the pandemic did that. The pandemic certainly was a thing but let\u2019s not just say the pandemic. Because it was not written in stone that we had to handle it the way we did. 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\u2019t figure this out\u2026finally\u2026the experts said, you know what it is? People just went f*cking mental. They went just nuts. They\u2019re like, I\u2019m home, the f*cking kids are here all the time, my stupid husband is here all the time, I\u2019m just going to take it out on the highway, and they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">He later added that \u201cFlorida did well\u201d handling the virus by focusing on the most vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time,\u201d host Bill Maher stated that it wasn\u2019t the coronavirus pandemic that caused massive learning loss, \u201cthe way we handled the pandemic did that. The pandemic certainly was a thing but let\u2019s not just say the pandemic. Because it was not written in stone that we had to handle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}