Bari Weiss' Comments With Bill Maher Gets #DoneWithCOVID Trending

Author and journalist Bari Weiss is having a serious bout of COVID fatigue!

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” Weiss told host Bill Maher that she is “done.”

“I’m done,” she said. “I’m done with COVID.”

Bari Weiss said that when the pandemic first started, she, like many others, followed the CDC guidelines to the letter.

“I sprayed the Pringles cans that I bought in the grocery store,” she told Maher. “[I] stripped my clothes off because I thought COVID would be on my clothes.”

“I watched ‘Tiger King,’” she added. “I got to the end of Spotify. We all did it.”

“Then we were told… you get the vaccine and you get back to normal,” she continued. “And we haven’t gotten back to normal.”

“And it’s ridiculous at this point,” she added. “If you believe the science, you will look at the data we did not have two years ago. You will find out that cloth masks do not do anything. You will realize you can show your vaccine passport at a restaurant and still be asymptomatic and be carrying omicron.”

“And you will realize most importantly that this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime,” she added.

On Monday, #DoneWithCovid started trending, with some expressing solidarity and others mocking the hashtag.

Comedian Sara Schaefer mocked Weiss' comments, saying, “Absolutely wonderful to see so many people declaring they are #DoneWithCovid!” she tweeted. “These people are DONE pretending to care about anyone but themselves! You go girl!”

“I mean, our house hold is mentally done with Covid because it is exhausting to continue modifying our lives while others are physically done with Covid and have ‘gone back to normal life,’” one person commented.

“I see #DoneWithCovid trending,” another added. “I think we’re all ‘done’ with it, but that doesn’t mean it won’t exist.”

“I declared freedom from acne when I was 14,” another joked. “Acne didn’t seem to give a crap.”

#DoneWithCOVID started trending on Monday, with many people expressing frustration with other people's frustration about the COVID-19 pandemic. Many warned that becoming complacent about COVID-19 restrictions is only likely to increase the rate of transmission.