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How We Respond to Disasters
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:53:18
Publish Date: 2020-04-23 11:00:00
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Panic, denial and fear. Reaching out to others for connection. Those are some of the reactions journalist Amanda Ripley documented in  her 2008 book, “The Unthinkable” which looked at how people behave in major disasters like floods or terrorist attacks. Today, she says she is seeing similar reactions to a slower-moving crisis: the coronavirus pandemic. Forum talks to Ripley about how  individuals and governments respond to disasters, and how we can avoid squandering Americans’ willingness to sacrifice and help during this time.
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