The 'Real Time With Bill Maher' host termed the stay-home orders 'reckless' and said they contributed to George Floyd protests.
. “People don’t have much to do now. There was a lockdown. They’ve been cooped up,” he said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has warned of “needless suffering and death” if restrictions are eased too soon. Steele said that the people gathering by the thousands were “protesting... the murder of this man and the impact that it’s had on our civil society” and noted that “they’re wearing their masks.”“Do you agree with me — probably not — that this has a lot to do with the unrest in the streets?” Maher asked during the show. “A quarter of the country that was working in February is not working now. You have no jobs. There’s no economy to come back to.
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