Well I live in a retirement community. If ever confronted with a catastrophe like the poor folks in the Bahamas, with a complete break down in services and law, people are going to drop like flies.
Actually the repeated hurricanes warnings of the past few years has turned people into being less complacent and more prepper.
Medical problems, I can see. Other than that, didn’t your neighbors live through WWII, the depression and general life situations where they learned how to get past a few weeks of disaster?