„How can you join a political group when you are working one, two, or three jobs to make ends meet? (Even one full-time job is exhausting enough.)
How can you take a break to meet someone for coffee or join a reading group when you don’t have child care?
How can you seek out new social connections when social media and streaming services are designed to be addictive and take up a lot of your free time?
How can you make a social connection without having to consume something (say, buying food or drinks to get a place to sit) because public spaces for recreation are so limited?
How can you meet up with a friend or family member who lives 20 miles away or multiple bus rides away?
Or when your loneliness complicates depression or other mental health needs and you don’t have healthcare?„
The Surgeon General, in recent comments about ‘Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation,’ gives individual solutions to what is a systemic problem that requires large-scale policy solutions.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/the-surgeon-general-should-stop-telling-people-to-solve-the-loneliness-crisis-on-their-own#
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