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January 26th, 2023

Response to: The Great Barrington Declaration

When looking up the Great Barrington Declaration on the two websites, the first thing that I noticed was Google had an ad at the top of the webpage instead of immediately displaying the website for the declaration. On DuckDuckGo (DDG), this ad was not present. Furthermore, all the results are different. Most notably, google provides sources that call the declaration arrogant (U.S. News) while DDG has sources talking about the silencing of the declaration (sciencebasedmedicine.org). The google results seem to be more biased generally than those of Duck Duck Go. Concerning the discrepancies in information presented two years ago, google […]

Posted by Vivien Forthman at 10:03 am

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January 26th, 2023

Response to Covid: Second Opinion Panel

Luckily, my experience with covid-19 has not been as disastrous as the experience of many others. Although most of my family has been infected, none of them have had life-threatening consequences/ had to be hospitalized. My life has been more so indirectly affected by covid-19. For example, the last two years of high school were mostly online, and my daily activities were impacted by closures and preventative measures. My community definitely became more separated, and tensions were elevated. Last year was my first year at Bucknell, and most things seemed relatively normal. Classes were in person, and masks were not […]

Posted by Vivien Forthman at 10:02 am

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January 26th, 2023

Response to: The Doctors for Disaster Preparedness lecture

The information provided in this article and video counters the preventative measures that were taken nationwide. State and federal governments and most universities imposed mask mandates and social distancing as ways to prevent the spread of covid-19 and, thus, lower the number of fatalities and infections. Merritt informs her audience that the government’s measures were unnecessary as areas that took the least amount of preventative measures actually ended up being better off in the long run. For example, five out of the six countries with the lowest death rates did little to respond to the pandemic. I believe the reason […]

Posted by Vivien Forthman at 10:01 am

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January 19th, 2023

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Response to: Excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick (1974) Although, it may be nice to live in a “world” where all your dreams seem to become reality, this lifestyles would be hard for me to come to terms with. I fear that plugging in would make my reality seem meaningless. If I can seemingly achieve all of my dreams and experience everything I want, emerging back into real life would make me deeply unhappy. Although it is important to be happy with your life and the things you do within it, there must be both ups […]

Posted by Vivien Forthman at 10:11 pm

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