Welcome to the Ultimate Loneliness Pandemic
We were driven apart by COVID-19 in 2020, and now the threat of war in 2022 looms in hearts
The COVID-19 crisis has created a feeling of solitude on a global scale, revealing an even more insidious affliction — a loneliness pandemic.
It’s hard to fight an enemy we can’t see.
In the early days of 2020, the virus spread silently and rapidly. It used the streets and neighborhoods we once strolled around as its staging area.
For months, we all hid in our houses, believing that we wouldn’t get the virus and spread it to our loved ones by keeping ourselves out of harm's way.
So while people were dying in hospitals and nursing homes throughout the world, we hunkered down at home with our families or alone in our apartments in fear.
The new coronavirus roamed freely for months, and the death toll kept rising. The latest figures are overwhelming, 6,280,972 people worldwide have died from COVID, the equivalent of wiping out the population of an entire country like Turkmenistan.
The effects of the virus have rippled throughout society to create devastating economic and social damage that may echo for decades.
