Half a million extra deaths of despair over the last twenty years or so. https://www.takimag.com/article/deaths-of-despair/ https://www.takimag.com/article/dea

Half a million extra deaths of despair over the last twenty years or so. https://www.takimag.com/article/deaths-of-despair/ https://www.takimag.com/article/deaths-of-despair/ >"But the more I study the White Death of the past two decades, the more I am instead reminded of the tragic trajectory of a now much less publicized American race, Native Americans. Like American Indians, working-class white Americans seem to be living, and dying, like a defeated people, quietly offing themselves with so little to-do that nobody even noticed what was happening to working-class white lifespans for the first fifteen years of this century."