The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why

by Amanda Ripley

this, trust has never been more endangered. If I had to predict the future, I’d say that more people will die of distrust than from disasters in the next fifty years—unless

(In the United States, you are almost twice as likely to kill yourself as you are to be killed by someone else during your lifetime.)

researchers now refer to as the “political determinants of health.” In Ohio and Florida, the excess-death rate was 43 percent higher for Republican voters than for Democrats from May to December 2021,