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Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown

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Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown
White House senior advisor to the president Jared Kushner and Admiral Brett Giroir, U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, wear protective face masks in the Rose Garden as President Donald Trump holds a COVID-19 response press briefing at the White House in Washington on May 11, 2020. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The possibility of U.S. lockdowns—never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics—was already in the air in early March 2020. The theory of lockdown had been floating around for 15 years but now China was first to try it, and claim enormous success, however fraudulently.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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