UN Warns Economic Downturn Could Kill Hundreds of Thousands of Children in 2020

by | Apr 17, 2020

Something tells me all the liberal Bluechecks on Twitter won’t be accusing all proponents of the lockdown of genocide against children the way they do against anyone who proposes lifting the lockdown. There seems to be a strange, unexplained link between people having a real job — i.e. not a government or media job — and wanting to save the economy from total destruction.

As one libertarian put it the other day, how about we stop paying all college professors until the end of the lockdown and see how quickly they change their minds then? Call it a controlled scientific study.

About Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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