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.’