He was utterly unnerved by the crowd. They were shaking hands, which even after all of his cultural-sensitivity training seemed like a bizarre thing to do in flu season, and kissing one another on the cheek. These people have no direct experience of pandemics, he reminded himself. None of them were old enough to remember the winter of 1918–1919; Eb

The pandemic revealed the fractures, biases, and inadequacies of our social systems. Education was not immune.

homepages. This confusion is the sign of an unresolved relationship, a love triangle that seems to have come undone in our modern times: a relationship drama where citizens, institutions and experts seem unable to communicate. While institutions might trust experts, they seem wary of us, of our emotional stability. Not even experts, truth be told,