Pandemic Spreads Isolation, and Nations Try to Soften the Sounds of Silence

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Coronavirus-era social isolation recently prompted Japan to name a loneliness minister, following the U.K.’s example from three years ago

TOKYO—A year ago when Japan was

, Seiji Saejima called his ex-wife for the first time since they divorced a few years earlier. He said she told him she was about to remarry and asked him not to call again.“I did not have many friends to contact even before,” said the 34-year-old, who works at a city government office near Tokyo. Then the pandemic forced reductions in activities that kept him connected, like going to singles’ mixers.

 

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That sounds like a very lonely job! And maybe an impossible one. Won't they just come back and say, 'Yeah, the root cause seems to be rampant consumerism mixed with hyper-stressed work environments and unrealistic social expectations.' And not just in Japan, but everywhere.

I’m afraid he’ll first have to register with the ministry of information retrieval, fill out a 27B/6 and then report to central services

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The loneliness minister has no staff, and spend much of his time watching Netflix on a couch, wishing he weren't putting off the implementation of all his ingenious plans to counteract loneliness.

MENTAL ILLNESS is the REAL Pandemic! Humanity suffers from the COLOSSAL IGNORANCE of CONFORMITY. The MENTAL HEALTH of people constantly abused by the FEAR MONGERING followed by ORDERS and MANDATES that're ENFORCED thru COERCION for NONCOMPLIANCE. Which results in NEUROSIS.

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It's boring to sit at home alone, looking for someone to spend time with

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