Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- What If the Lockdown Was All A Big Mistake?
Aired: 2020-04-22
Duration: 04:17


=== Protests Against Lockdowns (03:50) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:06]  What if the lockdown was a big mistake?
[00:00:10]  From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets.
[00:00:15]  They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest U.S. government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017-2018.
[00:00:32]  Across the U.S., millions of businesses have been shut down by executive order, and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression.
[00:00:42]  Americans who have seen their real wages decline thanks to the Federal Reserve monetary malpractice are finding themselves thrust into poverty and standing in breadlines.
[00:00:53]  It is like a horror movie, but it's real.
[00:00:57]  Last week, the U.N. Secretary General warned that a global recession resulting from the worldwide coronavirus lockdown could cause hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths per year.
[00:01:11]  As of this writing, less than 170,000 have been reported to have died from the coronavirus worldwide.
[00:01:18]  Many Americans have also died this past month because they were not able to get the medical care they needed.
[00:01:26]  Cancer treatments have been indefinitely postponed.
[00:01:30]  Life-saving surgeries have been put off to make room for coronavirus cases.
[00:01:36]  Meanwhile, hospitals are laying off thousands because the expected coronavirus cases have not come and the hospitals are partially empty.
[00:01:46]  What if the cure is worse than the disease?
[00:01:49]  Countries like Sweden that did not lock down their economy and place the population under house arrest are faring no worse than countries that did.
[00:02:00]  Sweden's death per million from coronavirus is lower than in many lockdown countries.
[00:02:07]  Likewise, U.S. states that did not arrest citizens for merely walking on the beach are not doing worse than those that did.
[00:02:16]  South Dakota Governor Christine Noam said last week, we've been able to keep our businesses open and allow people to take on some personal responsibility.
[00:02:27]  South Dakota has recorded a total of seven coronavirus deaths.
[00:02:33]  Kentucky, a strict lockdown state, is five times more populated than South Dakota, yet it has some 20 times more coronavirus deaths.
[00:02:44]  If lockdown and house arrests are the answer, shouldn't those numbers be reversed, with South Dakota seeing mass death while Kentucky dodges the coronavirus bullet?
[00:02:55]  When Anthony Fauci first warned that 2 million would die, there was a race among federal, state, and local officials to see who could rip up the Constitution fastest.
[00:03:07]  Then Fauci told us if we do what he says, only a quarter of a million would die.
[00:03:12]  They locked down America down even harder.
[00:03:15]  Then, with little more than a shrug of the shoulders, they announced that a maximum of 60,000 would die, but maybe less.
[00:03:23]  That is certainly terrible, but it's just a high average flu season.
[00:03:28]  Imagine if we had used even a fraction of the resources spent to lock down the entire population and focused on providing assistance and protection to the most vulnerable, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions.
[00:03:43]  We could have protected these people and still had an economy to go back to when the virus had run its course.
[00:03:49]  And it wouldn't have cost us $6 trillion either.

=== Essential Lockdowns? (00:23) ===

[00:03:53]  Governments have no right or authority to tell us what business or other activity is essential.
[00:04:00]  Only in totalitarian states does the government claim this authority.
[00:04:05]  We should encourage all those who are standing up peacefully and demanding an accounting from their elected leaders.
[00:04:13]  They should not be able to get away with this.