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Is he so fucking stupid that he thinks the NVICP was set up for COVID?
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)
This is an incredibly small percentage of the vaccinated population.
Oh, these are very interesting numbers.
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.
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.
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.
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?
This wasn't on his shitty HBO show, this was on his shitty podcast.
From your edit:
Apparently the vaccine seriously injured them, but not enough to actually bother filing a claim on time. Quite the injury.
"I got better."
an actual decent take, backed up with actual information. upvote the parent, people!