Adele posted a message to her social media channels this week thanking those on the front lines fighting COVID-19. In the process, the celebrated singer unveiled a thinner frameand the internet had a lot of thoughts about it, almost all trash.
Enter Bill Maher, noted #MeToo skeptic, with perhaps the most garbage take of them all.
On Friday night, during the interview portion of his HBO show Real Time, the comedian began by placing the bulk of the blame for the high amount of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. compared to other countries on Americas obesity problemnot, say, the fact that the Trump administration didnt do a single thing during the month of February to contain the spread of the virus.
The most important thing to do, they could have said, is get yourself in better shape. You could change your health profile a lot in two months, argued Maher. We could be in a much better position, and its just like when George W. Bush said after 9/11, Go shopping, and this was like, Keep eating. I know people hate to hear that message, and I hate to say it, but its the truth: the core of this problem in this country, one reasonobviously besides the Trumpian nonsenseis that we, as a country you look at the numbers from other countries around the world, not nearly the amount of deaths because they dont have the same obesity profile.
I have no idea what the hell the 9/11 comparison is about, and theres no question that America has an obesity problem, but its also plagued by inept leadership, a broken health-care system, a widening wealth gap, and a big-farming epidemic thats inserting unhealthy chemicals into our food, and many of these are contributing factors to obesity. To lay the blame for the countrys obesity problem entirely on the shoulders of its people is rubbish, and to minimize the role the Trump administrations played in allowing the virus to spread nationwide is even more rubbish.
To lay the blame for the countrys obesity problem entirely on the shoulders of its people is rubbish, and to minimize the role the Trump administrations played in allowing the virus to spread nationwide is even more rubbish.
But Maher wasnt finished. When you talk about this issue, its very easy for other people to score cheap points by attacking the messenger, when the truth is theyre just enabling people. Basically, weve gotten to this place where were proud of gluttony, the TV host said, before somehow tying this all to the Adele news.
Adele lost a lot of weightit was all over the pressand theres a controversy about this. This is not controversial! This is purely a good thing, offered Maher. And by the way, the old Adele would not fare as well with COVID-19. We applaud health-care workers when they save other peoples lives; we should applaud other people, I think, when they make a move to save their own life.
He then began reading some tweets about the Adele photo. Did we again push another sane person in the spotlight into eating disorder? Maher read, before weighing in: The eating disorder is eating too much! This is insane that they think an eating disorder goes in the other direction.
Yes, in Bill Mahers strange world, the only eating disorder is eating too much.
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