Freedom, Responsibility, and Coronavirus Policy

The Reason Roundtable

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🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie discuss the thorny relationship between individual freedom and coronavirus policy. Plus, some tax talk and Reconciliation Bill updates, on this Monday's Reason Roundtable.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your weekly Libertarian podcast that never uses the word
0:07.9	freedom as a punchline.
0:09.4	I am Matt Welch, joined by Nicholas B. Peter Suderman, and Katherine Mangu Ward, hello
0:13.8	everyone, and especially happy joint birthday to the kids at the table.
0:21.3	Thank you.
0:22.3	Hey, Matt.
0:23.3	Happy Monday.
0:24.3	You want to do that again?
0:25.3	Nope.
0:26.3	It's fine.
0:28.3	Okay.
0:29.3	So on Thursday of last week, President Joe Biden did a rambly town hall thingy with Anderson
0:37.6	Cooper at CNN as part of a longer answer on whether it was a good idea to be firing first
0:43.9	responders who refused to follow vaccine mandates on which he said a very emphatic yes.
0:51.3	The president also delivered this little nugget, Katherine.
0:55.7	Would you like to play the clip?
0:57.6	The two things that concern me.
1:00.0	One are those who just try to make this a political issue.
1:03.6	Freedom.
1:04.6	I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID.
1:07.9	Come on.
1:08.9	Freedom.
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