Liberty or Lockdown? Jeffrey Tucker & Keith Knight

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. Buy Liberty or Lockdown here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1630692123?pf_rd_r=YXJ7ZTETT48NWAPJZW2D&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee 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.’