(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) “Saturday Night Live” featured a skit mocking liberals and their excessive masking, which is not unlike obsessive compulsives mocking hour-long hand-washing rituals.
The skit featured a group of friends who are out to dinner, when the conversation turns to COVID measures.
While insisting they are happy to be vaccinated and follow the rules, the group questions whether or not those who are not vaccinated and masked may or may not have a valid point.
“Did I have to dump my oldest friend because he didn’t get a booster?” host John Mulaney asked.
The skit continues, questioning the pointless—and sometimes contradictory—rules around outdoor dining, parties, and more.
“Look, I went to a child’s birthday party,” says Kate McKinnon, “and they did gymnastics in masks 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?”
The skit does not follow through on that idea, backtracking immediately, saying “of course we needed the masks.”
But, the New York Post noted that if this is being brought to light on SNL, “you can be sure it’s the talk of most middle-class liberal strongholds.”
Many reactions to this skit were more cynical than the SNL team probably hoped:
If SNL is doing a skit mocking all of the COVID rubbish then the midterm polling for the Democrats must be beyond atrocious. https://t.co/cLn181p2dg
— Acclaimed Journalist (@Jonathan_Witt) February 27, 2022
This skit is twice as funny when you remember that at the end of the episode, after performing unmasked all show, the cast says thanks and goodbye and all that while … wearing masks. https://t.co/ttOUhTApp6
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 27, 2022
Yesterday’s SNL skit was as close to an explicit admission from the left as you will ever get that they were wrong on COVID.
Which means they’ll pretend nothing ever happened for the last 2 years, and that they’ll do it all over again the next time.— Rising serpent 🇺🇸 (@rising_serpent) February 28, 2022
The worst part of the SNL bit about the insanity of Covid restrictions is realizing that none of this ever made sense, yet people lost their jobs, business’s destroyed, friendships ended, some doctors were ostracized & the Supreme Court had to strike a mandate.
But sure. Laugh
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) February 28, 2022
