'You don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine.'

Sorry, can’t find any better sources for this.

The animator then asked Maher what the “downside” of “getting a vaccine” was, which caused the comedian to go on an anti-vax tirade.

“The fact that you the fact that you don’t even have a clue what’s the cost of getting a vaccine that you don’t know the answer to that. You completely want to shut your eyes to the fact that there are repercussions to all medical interventions, including a vaccine, all vaccines,” he ranted. “They come, they say side effects, just like every medication does. You can see it in the literature. They can’t write it on their back on the vaccine. So you have to dig them. And of course, there is a vaccine court because so many people have been injured.”

  • Jaysyn
    68•6 months ago

    Is he so fucking stupid that he thinks the NVICP was set up for COVID?

    The NVICP was established as part of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (Public Health Service Act, 1987; 100 Stat. 3756, codified as Title XXI of the Public Health Service Act at 42 USC 300aa-1 et seq. (Supp. V 1987)), but it did not become operational until the fall of 1988.

    I bet I can count on two hands the number of COVID vaccine “injuries” that have been paid out from this fund.

    Bill Maher is a moron, I don’t understand how he is still on the air.

    EDIT: Correction, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) was actually started in May 2023.

    EDIT2: I found the relevant data for this:

    CICP data for COVID-19 claims (as of December 1, 2023)

    Total COVID-19 CICP claims filed: 12,700

    Pending Review or In Review: 10,863
Decisions: 1,837
    Claims found eligible for compensation: 38
        Claims compensated: 10
        Claims pending benefits determination: 27
        Claims with no eligible reported expenses: 1
    Denied: 1,799
        Requested medical records not submitted: 337
        Standard of proof not met and/or covered injury not sustained: 257
        Missed filing deadline: 954
        Not CICP covered product/not specified: 251

    This is an incredibly small percentage of the vaccinated population.

    • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
      46•6 months ago

      Oh, these are very interesting numbers.

      Total COVID-19 CICP claims filed: 12,700

      Out of about 700M doses administered? That’s 0.0018% of people who actually thought they had been harmed enough to actually file a complaint.

      Decisions: 1,837

      Claims found eligible for compensation: 38

      And 2% of the people who thought they had something actually did.

      That means that, of the 700 million doses of COVID vaccine that have been administered since 2020, 0.0000054% have resulted in an adverse reaction significant enough to merit financial compensation.

      Thank you, Bill, for providing the information needed to prove your own point spurious.

    • @Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40•6 months ago

      Bill Maher is a moron, I don’t understand how he is still on the air.

      There is a huge audience for reactionary bullshit. I’m embarrassed to admit that it took me too long to realize that’s what he sells, but when half of every show was whining about trans people it got super obvious.

      • @IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8•6 months ago

        That’s where I tuned out too. His outrage that a trans woman might be a better swimmer than a biological woman is way down the list of things I care about. Why does he get so worked up?

    • Flying SquidOP
      16•6 months ago

      From your edit:

      Missed filing deadline: 954

      Apparently the vaccine seriously injured them, but not enough to actually bother filing a claim on time. Quite the injury.

    • Flying SquidOP
      16•6 months ago

      This wasn’t on his shitty HBO show, this was on his shitty podcast.

    • qprimedEnglish
      1•6 months ago

      an actual decent take, backed up with actual information. upvote the parent, people!