HBO host Bill Maher and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane got into an arguments recently over the COVID-19 vaccines and mandates.
It all went down on the latest episode of Maher’s podcast,“Club Random,” where Maher insisted that mandating the vaccine for everyone, including those who had already had COVID, was “powerful stupid.”
‘That’s Powerful Stupid’
Maher asked MacFarlane, “Why are doctors wrong about so much?”
MacFarlane said doctors were right about a lot of things as well.
Maher pushed back.
“Very often, people who aren’t doctors have been righter about things,” Maher continued.
Then MacFarlane asked for an example of what Maher was suggesting. Maher brought up the handling of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States.
“I would think — this country did not allow for natural immunity to be considered,” Maher said. “And I know this is a subject dear to your heart. Like, even if you had the disease, you still had to get a vaccine.”
“That’s powerful stupid,” Maher added. “They don’t do that in Europe.”
MacFarlane disagreed, saying there was no real “natural immunity” because many people got COVID multiple times.
“Don’t you know people have had COVID four or five times? I do,” MacFarlane said. “That’s not natural immunity. There’s no immunity there.”
“Probably because you’ve had too many vaccines,” Maher replied.
MacFarlane pushed back, saying that the mandatory vaccines reduced hospitalizations and deaths.
“But that’s assuming that all people are alike,” Maher said. “And that is one of the giant fallacies in your way of thinking, we are not all alike.”
‘Djokovic Didn’t Need It’
As MacFarlane continued to object to Maher’s line of thinking, Maher told his guest, “[Novak] Djokovic didn’t need it. Aaron Rodgers didn’t need it.”
“You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions including a vaccine!” Maher finished.
The debate wasn’t exactly settled, but what a debate.
