This has been a stressful, horrible week for any American with a heart. And for so many people down south, of course.
But everyday American life is fraught with a good measure of stress. Stress in the purest biolgical sense: the constriction of breathing, the release of adrenaline, the near constant fight-or-flight stance.
Of course, one of the main causes of US stress is the nearly total lack of a meaningful social safety net here. We're just one bad accident away from losing everything. A sick child away from never, ever getting out of debt.
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