Angela Merkel Gives Germans a Hard Lesson in COVID Numbers.

Why this matters here

Connolly’s Guardian report covers Angela Merkel’s public COVID explanations—including her March 2020 address and later briefings that asked Germans to grasp exponential growth rather than receive a slogan. When Authority Is Misread treats that speech cycle as evidence of a standing wager: that publics can carry interpretive labor usually absorbed by leaders. The reporting establishes how Merkel taught rate-of-change; the book asks what authority is doing when it shares the work of understanding instead of packaging certainty.