Andrew Lakoff’s Unprepared and Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps both take up questions of uncertainty, authority, and trust as they relate to pandemic threats.
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Andrew Lakoff’s Unprepared and Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps both take up questions of uncertainty, authority, and trust as they relate to pandemic threats. Drawing on these readings (and others if necessary), build an argument that explains how scientists and public officials secure authority and trust amid the uncertainty that characterizes emergent pandemics. To flesh out your argument, draw on outside sources to provide examples of how these relationships have played out during the COVID-19 pandemi

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