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You're listening to the Partially Examined Life Podcast,

and this is our special pandemic episode 241,

where we'll be giving our thoughts about philosophical issues involved in our current global crisis and local situations.

More information and links to some articles by contemporary philosophers on this topic are available at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Lentomire, Locked Down in Medicine, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Pascan, socially distancing in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Awan, Hordein, Loungewear, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, doing Zoom, even more than I did before.

We've got many requests to do an episode like this,

so we're doing it.

I'm saying pretty much pop style in that some of us found some articles.

We have a shared notes document.

We have some outline things, at least that I had suggested,

but nobody was required to read anything else that anybody else read,

and we can kind of structure this as we see fit.

I have a question, or I have a comment that I would like to start off with about flattening the curve.

The response to this virus, talking about social distancing as a response,

to try to slow down the spread of the virus, flatten the curve,

and all of it seems to be related.

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