What Would “Acceptance” Mean?

Despite the headline of his Washington Post op-ed, “We need to enter the fifth stage of coronavirus grief: Acceptance”, I don’t think that Tom Frieden has reached that stage yet. Everything he discusses in the op-ed is a way of avoiding contracting the virus.

I think that genuine acceptance would be something quite different: acknowledging that completely eliminating risk is impossible and if you get the disease, you get it.

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