"loneliness epidemic," as some experts call it, was a problem well before Covid-19. And while physical reunion is now in sight, it'll take more than dinner parties to reach the marrow of a complicated and deeply cultural problem.re is a distinction between loneliness and the social isolation that Covid-19 has required over the past year.
Whether people who are lonely have too few relationships or not enough deep bonds with others, loneliness has dire health outcomes across the board.In fact, loneliness is just as lethal as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, she revealed. And people with strong social bonds are 50 percent less likely to die over a given period of time than those with fewer social connections.
"It's become this epidemic to be frightened of," she told CNN."It's articulated as something we can't control, when we know that there are actually social reasons people feel lonely." Holt-Lunstad said several studies have been done to measure the effects of the past year's social isolation on loneliness, with mixed results.
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