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Swiss physician bioethicist, prof @UNIGENews, member at @nekcne, @nihbioethics alum, #COVID19 ethics during @SwissScience_TF, adoptive-mom of 4, tweets my own

Jun 29, 2020, 7 tweets

Phases of grief when mourning pre-#COVID19 life:
1) Denial: This is no worse than the flu, it may even be invented

2) Anger: This is <insert your enemies>' fault! I knew it!

3) Bargaining: OK, this is real, but it means that this *thing* that I always wanted to do is now what we *must* do, right? (every political view pretty much represented here, except those who got stuck for the moment at stages 1 and 2)

4) Depression: silence, stunned silence

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5) Acceptance: now we can do something, where do I sign up to help my neighbors, to learn to make hand sanitizer, to help scientist, what can I do?

People who've spent all or part of the pandemic in any of these stages need our understanding and sometimes forgiveness. It's a normal process, people

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