A Soho Forum Discussion of COVID with Tom Woods

Apr 26, 2024

Tom Woods engages in a debate on COVID restrictions, emphasizing individual liberties. Analysis includes pandemic economics, government interventions, and public health responses. Critique on COVID policies, mask effectiveness, accountability of key figures, and misinformation. Discussion on data analysis, state disparities, and societal impacts. Promotions for future election debates with notable guests like Alan Dershowitz and Glenn Greenwald.

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

Support and Sponsorship Acknowledgement for the Soho Forum

04:49 • 2min

Navigating Pandemics: Balancing Economics and Health

06:36 • 19min

Revisiting COVID-19 Responses and Policies

25:21 • 29min

Analyzing COVID-19 Measures and Accountability

54:09 • 21min

Mask Effectiveness and Economic Implications

01:14:55 • 10min

Thoughtful Discussion on COVID-19 Data, Policies, and Societal Impact

01:24:44 • 5min

Upcoming Debate Event Promotions and Discussion of Future Election Debates

01:29:27 • 4min

Important Update from The Soho Forum: "[We regret] to inform you of a significant change to tonight's debate between Brent Orrell and Tom Woods. Unfortunately, Brent Orrell will not be able to participate as his granddaughter tragically passed away over the weekend. Our hearts go out to Brent and his family during this difficult time. In light of this, we've made adjustments to the event to ensure it can still proceed. Our director Gene Epstein will read, word-for-word, the script that Brent prepared, along with the slides Brent submitted. Tom Woods will then make his case for the negative. In lieu of an Oxford-style before/after voting, we will extend the Q&A portion and conclude the program with a 5-mins summation from Tom Woods."

The originally scheduled event was as follows:

Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute and podcaster and author Tom Woods debate the resolution, "Government-imposed restrictions during the Covid pandemic were prudent and essential."

Taking the affirmative is Brent Orrell, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on job training, work force development, and criminal justice reform. Orrell has over 20 years of experience in the executive and legislative branches of government and was nominated by President George W. Bush to lead the Employment and Training Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote extensively on the impact of the disease on working conditions and the role of social distancing policies and practices in protecting worker and public health.

Taking the negative is Tom Woods, the host of The Tom Woods Show and author of 13 books, including latest Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania. He won the $50,000 first-place prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards for his book The Church and the Market and was the winner of the 2019 Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, given in Vienna by the Hayek Institute and the Austrian Economics Center.

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