Introduction: Discordant narratives and social chaos / Shing-Ling S. Chen -- Economy vs. public health : discordant leadership narratives in the pandemic / Shing-Ling S. Chen and Zanetta Miller -- Mandates vs. no mandates : communitarianism and libertarianism in the pandemic / Melissa L. Beall and Shing-Ling S. Chen -- Religious freedom vs public health : discordant legal narratives in the pandemic / Juliet Dee -- Domestic disjointed narratives of the pandemic : the critical early months / Rachel Kaplan -- Historical vs. ahistorical narratives of the pandemic : the discordant rhetoric of our unprecedented times / John J. Rief -- Discordant rhetorical responses : crisis communication in sports organizations in the Covid-19 pandemic / Tyler Welsh, R. Tyler Spradley, and Elizabeth Spradley -- Misinformation, scandalization, and the Trump show : audience responses to President Trump's pandemic narrative / Kristjan Kikerpill -- Manufacturing disinformation : the story of plandemic / Stephen D. Caldes, Zach Justus, and Jennifer A. Malkowski.
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"This book provides a careful examination of the discordant narratives that embodied the chaos, tensions, and conflicts in the U.S. pandemic responses. The ultimate goal of this volume is to help groups and individuals understand just what went wrong in the U.S. pandemic responses"-- Provided by publisher.
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