When the world goes back to normal, Shanan Cale’s life won’t change much.
She’ll still work mostly from her home in California.
She’ll mother her two college-aged daughters. And she’ll continue to ponder intimacy and connection as a 54-year-old woman experiencing loneliness.
“Post-pandemic, even now that I’m vaccinated and everyone in my household is vaccinated — I don’t really have people outside my little pod,” she told CNN.
Cale is lonely but not alone.
In 2018, nearly half of Americans reported sometimes or always feeling alone.
Recent findings suggest that during the pandemic, over one in three Americans face “serious loneliness.”
The “loneliness epidemic,” as some experts call it, was a problem well before Covid-19. (CNN)
And now that more employers are telling their employees to work from home permanently, we’ll see an uptick in people living without much-needed socialization!
This trend is a threat to the cohesiveness of our communities.
WE ALL KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE LONELY!
PLEASE ADOPT A LONELY PERSON!!
If not today, when?
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