Maher says anti-COVID lockdown advocates 'were right' and that Wuhan lab leak 'wasn't a conspiracy theory'

close Video Bill Maher says anti-COVID lockdown advocates 'were right,' Wuhan lab leak 'wasn't a conspiracy theory' On Friday's episode of "Real Time," host Bill Maher lamented the fact that four years after the COVID pandemic, "the people who got it wrong don't seem to want to acknowledge that now." NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Late-night host Bill Maher asserted that anti-COVID lockdown advocates who argued that closing schools for an extended period of time would cause more harm than good to children "were right," and that the Wuhan lab leak theory "wasn't a conspiracy theory" after all. During Friday's episode of "Real Time," Maher said that years after the COVID pandemic finally came to a close, he's tired of hearing people make excuses for how dissenting voices were treated for speaking out against COVID policies like masking and lockdowns."I get it that we didn't know exactly what was happening at the beginning of COVID, and some mistakes were inevitable.