Whats going to happen to the $12 trillion of new money created during covid?

It'll just go into house prices and $TSLA, same as all the other funny-money.

Even Bill Maher is saying we're pretty much at a plateau and should act like it instead of stretching this further for whatever reasons.

Why do you say "even" here?

Bill Maher has expressed frustration with lockdowns throughout the pandemic. That he holds the view you mention does not seem surprising or remarkable to me.

(He also seems like an unusual choice to bring in as an authority on this topic. He is primarily a comedian.)

Even Donald Trump said end the lockdowns!!!

We first embraced hard lockdowns. No cost was high enough if we could contain covid if only just a little bit. Then we turned to vaccines as a miraculous path back to a life resembling normal. As the vaccine performance falters (*), I'm uncomfortably curious to see which way the world will go.

(*) According to FDA/CDC and Israel, which are promoting the 3rd boosting shot in less than a year and anticipating the 4th.