When people’s lives are uprooted, they eventually (up to 15 years later, in this study’s counting) die earlier than they would have if their lives hadn’t been u

When people’s lives are uprooted, they eventually (up to 15 years later, in this study’s counting) die earlier than they would have if their lives hadn’t been uprooted. And people who are barely holding on before the storm do worse than people with the means to just up and start a new life. That feels like an important thing to understand as a public policy matter, but it’s carrying things so far down the causal chain that saying the bad things “cause deaths” is just silly. And comparing these cases to motor vehicle deaths and direct war fatalities… eesh. Where’s the comparison to total excess mortality amongst all veterans and civilians exposed to war? (Edit: would it make sense to link to the paper itself? It’s an important idea, and the paper is rather less silly than its corresponding PR piece. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07945-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07945-5 )