In The Atlantic, Dr. Lucy McBride argues that in the United States and in many other countries around the world, we’re slowly shifting away from the Covid-19 pandemic to SARS-CoV-2 being endemic (like the flu). As part of that process, she argues, we need to recalibrate our risk calculations and expectations of what’s safe & dangerous:

That means that, from a decision-making perspective, we’re starting to reach the acceptance phase of the pandemic: a time when we must recalibrate our individual risk gauges, which have been completely thrown out of whack. The approach I’m embracing with patients boils down to a secular version of the serenity prayer. We need “the serenity to accept the things [we] cannot change, courage to change the things [we] can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

This begins with a broader reckoning with risk. It ends, I hope, with clarity on what we actually can do as a society to protect life—and a commitment to do it.

Does McBride employ ABT in her essay? Would you say that this article makes an effective argument for how people should behave differently now that the acute phase of the Covid pandemic is ending and we’re entering into an endemic phase?