A Libertarian Response to Coronavirus with Scott Horton - WBD208
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Location: Skype Date: Friday, 27th March Project: Libertarian Institute Role: Founder & Director
With the rapid spread of coronavirus COVID-19, governments around the world are taking drastic action to try and flatten the curve, slow the infection rate and take the strain off already struggling healthcare systems.
China's authoritarian government quickly implemented strict controls, sealing people into apartments and increasing surveillance. All of which were reported as very useful, at least temporarily in slowing the spread. But, under democratic rule, how far can and should, the state go to save lives?
Many governments have issued lockdowns forbidding people from leaving their homes for all but essential tasks and businesses order to close. Many of the measures are designed as temporary, but some fear that governments will be reluctant to revoke these new controls once the pandemic is over
There is a direct trade-off between the encroachment on our civil liberties and saving lives, so are the strict measures worth it? And where do you draw the line?
In this interview, I talk to Scott Horton, the Founder and Director of the Libertarian Institute. We discuss the ongoing coronavirus crisis, if a state is beneficial in this extreme public health crisis and how an anarchist society would deal with a pandemic.
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| 0:08.7 | How are you all coping with the lockdown? |
| 0:11.4 | I know I seem to be asking this every intro right now but we are in these very |
| 0:15.9 | strange times and sometimes the news gets a little bit worse sometimes. Some of the reports are a little |
| 0:21.9 | bit sad seeing the expansion |
| 0:24.8 | of this virus across Europe and now in the US and potentially what's going to |
| 0:28.4 | happen in Africa it's all you know it's all very sad. But I do hope you are all doing okay. You're staying healthy both in body and mind and I do have another show for you today. So welcome to the What Bitcoin did podcast, which is brought to you by Krakhan, the best place to buy, sell and trade |
| 0:43.7 | Bitcoin. I'm your host Peter McCormack and today I've got an interview with Scott |
| 0:47.7 | Horton. He is the founder and the director of the Libertarian Institute and I |
| 0:51.9 | got him on so we can discuss a libertarian response to the coronavirus. |
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