Posted on 02/24/2021 11:33:46 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A new survey released by researchers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education shows that loneliness is on the rise in the United States and depicts how it can lead to a wide range of other health problems.
“Making Caring Common” is a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The group conducted the survey in October and published it this month in a project report. The survey results suggest that 36% of all Americans feel “serious loneliness.” This grouping includes 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children. The report was done based on an online survey of approximately 950 Americans. The data is considered preliminary, but might give some insight into the mental state of some Americans....
The survey found that 36% of respondents reported feeling lonely “frequently” or “almost all the time or all the time” in the prior four weeks. Respondents also stated that they felt an increase in loneliness since the pandemic started....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
In a year long Covid lockdown? You don’t say.
What do you expect? We’re pretty much not allowed to get within
six feet of each other, or see each others faces.
(We might foment insurrection.)
~Easy
Lonely, horny, or both? Heh...
I wonder how many millions of government grants it took to figure this out? My single son was commenting on how it seems like there are a lot of prettier gals out and about now.
I quipped “Well sure - when it is so hard to date - they all look pretty!”
“No dad - it’s because they are wearing masks. Their eyes are almost always pretty. But then we’re outside and the mask comes down....”
My wife was telling me that eye cosmetics are selling great. Lipstick - not so much!
The result of life choices. What else can you expect from self-centered philosophies? The damage done to our nation and society will not be undone in our lifetime, if ever.
Political choices in inextricably bound in these lifestyles. The I-me-me-I generations have spoken.
Gee, staring at your phone all day and waiting for the government to take care of you isn’t a cure for loneliness...who knew?
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