{"id":2251207,"date":"2026-01-26T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2251207"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:00:14","slug":"bill-maher-addresses-covid-pandemic-mistakes-lockdowns-conspiracies-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bill-maher-addresses-covid-pandemic-mistakes-lockdowns-conspiracies-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher Addresses Covid Pandemic Mistakes, Lockdowns, Conspiracies &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">HBO\u2019s Real Time returned on Friday (January 23), and host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005175\/\">Bill Maher<\/a> spent the first episode of the new season examining fallout about the Covid-19 pandemic. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9320766\/\">Maher<\/a> said he is \u201ctired of hearing\u201d people say \u201cwe didn\u2019t know\u201d about actions taken during the pandemic. \u201cI get it that we didn\u2019t know exactly what was happening at the beginning of Covid, and some mistakes were inevitable,\u201d he said, per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0852890\/\">Fox News Digital<\/a>. \u201cBut some people guessed better than others. And the people who got it wrong don\u2019t seem to want to acknowledge that now.\u201d He went on to argue against the lockdowns, including school closures. \u201cSome people said&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO\u2019s Real Time returned on Friday (January 23), and host Bill Maher spent the first episode of the new season examining fallout about the Covid-19 pandemic. Maher said he is \u201ctired of hearing\u201d people say \u201cwe didn\u2019t know\u201d about actions taken during the pandemic. \u201cI get it that we didn\u2019t know exactly what was happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Bill-Maher-Addresses-Covid-Pandemic-Mistakes-Lockdowns-Conspiracies-More.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251209,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251207\/revisions\/2251209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}