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The Politics Of Loneliness

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Covid

The data that I mentioned of increased time spent alone during the 20 teens, it kind of just goes off the charts once COVID hits. And now there is the sort of conflict over whether or not people will go back to the office and whatnot. The reason behind forcing social isolation was to not spread the virus. But have we created a situation where there's a lot of knock on effects that we weren't necessarily prepared for? "I think we accelerated the situation rather than creating it"

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