Viruses versus Lockdowns: It's Not about Tradeoffs

Viruses versus Lockdowns: It’s Not about Tradeoffs

05/15/2020 Michel Accad, MD

Presenting “saving lives” as a more or less equal alternative to commerce and community is a misguided view of what the lockdown debate is really all about.

This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

Original Article: “Viruses versus Lockdowns: It’s Not about Tradeoffs“

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.