Liberty or Lockdown? Jeffrey Tucker and Keith Knight

by | Dec 24, 2020

 

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.

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0:23 – “The American government was justified in shutting down the economy to halt the spreading of a deadly, contagious disease that has killed millions worldwide in order to save the lives of its citizens” – How do you respond?

2:28 – ‘Logic tells us social distancing = less spreading = less death’

5:46 – Is there any correlation between locked down areas & lower death rates?

9:08 – Hong Kong Flu of 1968 – https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/

14:02 – Solutions v. trade offs, what are the 2ndary effects of the lockdowns?

16:04 – ‘We didn’t know what this was, lockdowns were our way of playing it safe.’

19:40 – Are cases & deaths increasing or decreasing?

25:27 – Immune systems & the Flu shot

28:28 – New decade, new justification for government – how can we think our way out of this?

30:52 – ‘There are no libertarians in a pandemic, this shows we need socialism.’

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About Keith Knight

Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

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