Woke chat show The View FINALLY lets studio audience remove their face masks three years after COVID

The view is finally clear once and for all after the ABC daytime television show gave its audience the go-ahead to remove their face masks as the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic approaches.

Hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin recognized the smiling faces of the crowd during Monday’s episode from the desk with audience members before them no longer wearing masks.

The audience had been required to wear face coverings since the show returned to the studio in 2021 and Friday’s episode was the last day.

“Look at all of you sitting here without masks,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg exclaimed as the audience applauded. ‘Wait a minute now. So I’m speaking, and in my mind, I’m thinking, what’s different about this audience? And then it hits me. No masks. Because I saw your smile and I saw your teeth. It’s great. Well yeah, we’re getting back to where we were.

Hostin also noted that it was the “first day” without the mask mandate, while co-host Sara Haines added that it was “nice to see their faces.”

“Look at all of you sitting here without masks,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg exclaimed as the audience applauded on Monday’s show.

On Friday’s show, the audience still appeared to be wearing their face masks.

It’s unclear why The View chose Monday to lift its masking mandate, though the state of emergency in New York, where the show is filming, finally expires this month.

Also Monday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he wanted to ban face masks in stores entirely after criminals appeared to be wearing the coverings to avoid identification when committing crimes.

Back at The View, actor Brendan Fraser joined the hosts to discuss his film, The Whale, also noting the mask change.

‘It was a movie made in the time of COVID. I hope that in the next few years, if we look back at the movies that have been made between 2019 and 2022, there is some kind of secret ingredient to all of them. And I have a theory, I think it was because we cared for each other even more while we were at work. Because by right, we should have been home.

‘We can’t live like this. And it’s nice to see her beautiful faces again. I’ve been sitting in a lot of houses and crowds at least recently, and it’s not lost on me that we can come together and do this again,” Fraser said.

Audience members, pictured during the show on Friday, were fully masked.

The View audience members had been fully masked since they returned to the studio in June 2021.

The show had required audience members to wear masks since they returned to the studio in 2021, but on Monday, the hosts noted that the audience did not have masks.

Audience members seemed extremely happy now that they are no longer wearing masks.

The View had taken an alarmist approach during the pandemic, whether it was about wearing masks or exaggerating the severity of the virus for children.

In one case, the hosts, led by Goldberg, defended Broadway performer Patti LuPone in May 2022 after she stopped a performance to yell at an audience member at one of her shows for not wearing a mask.

“You don’t want to infect people onstage who aren’t wearing masks,” Goldberg said, defending LuPone. Do it well.

In 2021, two co-hosts, Hostin and co-host Ana Navarro, were forced to leave the set after testing positive for COVID-19 mid-show, just before an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. HeHis results ended up being false positives.

One of the younger hosts, Sara Haines, said she’d rather see her son in a mask than a ‘fan’, while co-host Sunny Hostin also vastly overestimated the number of child deaths when she suggested last year that ‘1 percent ‘ of young people who contracted the virus died from it. At the time, the mortality rate for children under the age of 18 was 0.008 percent.

Behar was photographed dining with her friends without a mask, and reportedly also left the restaurant without her mask.

Post Millennial editor-in-chief Libby Emmons posted the photos on Twitter Friday, slamming the liberal commentator for her hypocrisy about masks.

Last month, co-hosted Joy Behar was hit by another storm of hypocrisy after being photographed without a mask inside a NY restaurant hours after announcing his plans to use one indefinitely on national television.

Behar, 79, declared that she would remain masked despite the ever-changing guidelines.

“Personally, I hear the little voice in my head that it really doesn’t follow 100 percent what they tell me because they keep changing it,” Behar said in February.

But his desquamation was exposed by The Post Millennial just hours later, after Behar was photographed shaking his chin with friends on a banquette in a New York restaurant.

And a source even told the reporter libby emmons that Behar had strutted around the restaurant without a mask when his party left, even though his friends happily covered up to do so.

After seeing the photos of Behar without a mask, Emmons said: “Joy Behar said she was going to wear a mask in public places ‘indefinitely’ because it’s not safe.” Except for last night at this restaurant, apparently.

She added: “I heard that she also left the restaurant without a mask, although her companions obediently put theirs on.”

Behar didn’t break any rules, as New York recently removed a strict mandate requiring customers to show proof of vaccinations before being able to eat inside restaurants or visit other indoor entertainment venues.

But the comedian had acted as if she was planning to go beyond such requirements.

‘So if I’m going on the subway, if I’m going on a bus, if I’m going to the theater…a crowded place, I would wear a mask, and I could do it indefinitely. Why do I need the flu or even a cold? And so I’m listening to myself right now. I don’t think it’s 100% sure yet,” he said.