Barbara A. Paquette, 87, of Boothbay Harbor passed away on April 12, 2023. The daughter of John and Anne (Lydon) Connolly, she was born in Portland, Maine on Nov. 18, 1935. She grew up in Portland, and lived most of her life there. She attended the.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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During the Pandemic, many of us have spent a lot of time alone, and a lot of time online. These circumstances seem to have favored the emergence of a range of potent conspiracy theories. Some of these theories pertain to COVID-19 or the vaccination program against it, while others implicate pizza restaurants, popular elections, and cellular broadband technology. These conspiracy theories may have had their origins in shady outposts of the internet, but many of them have since “mainstreamed”, and have been implicated in large-scale political movements, including the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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The end of 2020 was sweetened somewhat by news that scientists had created multiple effective vaccines for COVID-19. On receiving this news, states moved rapidly to confront the next major hurdle in the battle against the pandemic: the mass production and distribution of vaccines. Programs of public immunization are already underway in countries fortunate enough to enjoy access to the limited supply of vaccines. But for many months, and perhaps years, this supply will be subject to scarcity. Most people agree that available doses should be distributed in an equitable and fair fashion – but what, precisely, does that mean? What does just vaccine distribution look like in practice? What should our priorities be? Factors that must figure in the ethical and political calculus include the need to prevent premature deaths and long-term health problems, to reduce social and economic harms such as scho