![]() ![]() The sketch features a group of friends confronted by the idea that mask mandates and other COVID-19 rules weren’t actually effective. These are the Democratic base, and elected officials worry the endless COVID regime is going to hurt them in the midterms. If “SNL” has noticed the frustration, you can be sure it’s the talk of most middle-class liberal strongholds. Huge crowds stand at the Super Bowl or concerts without masks on, yet you have to wear one to walk into a subway station. The science hasn’t changed, the politics have.Įven those who start sentences with “I’m not a Republican, but …” chafe that children are still masked in school, or you still have to mask on airplanes or trains. Yet “Saturday Night Live’s” belated awakening is in line with what’s happening with the Biden administration and Democratic statehouses nationwide. Mask mandates were irrelevant because none but the K-95s have any real deterrent effect, but were more so after the introduction of vaccines. This skit could have aired at least a year ago. “Look, I went to a child’s birthday party, self-careful,” says McKinnon, “and they did gymnastics in masks - don’t,” pointing at a smirking Mulaney “- and then they went into another room and took off their masks to eat pizza - this is the end of me - so did they really need the mask or no? DID ANY OF US EVER NEED THE MASK?” It keeps going, capturing the liberal guilt over questioning the performative, often pointless rules - like it was fine to eat at a smaller “outdoor” restaurant but not inside the main one. And “Did I have to dump my oldest friend because he didn’t get a booster?”įreakout. “Maybe sometimes we can be a little overzealous when we condemn …,” Mulaney says. Then, while insisting she’s happy to be vaxxed, Kate McKinnon says perhaps it’s not right to force it on people. When one mentions that she read an article in Bloomberg that mask mandates had little to no effect on the virus, everyone tenses up. Perhaps because the host was John Mulaney, the former “SNL” writer whose humor often skewers the pretentious.Ī group of friends are out to dinner and start to discuss COVID measures. Hard to believe, but “Saturday Night Live” had a skit mocking liberals this past week. 10, 2023ĬOVID-exposed Biden flouts White House mask rule as he stands just inches away from elderly Medal of Honor vet Trump refused to wear COVID mask because it smudged his bronzer: former aideįlorida Surgeon General goes on anti-vaccine rant against new COVID-19 boosterīiden’s 9/11 snub and more: Letters to the Editor - Sept.
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