A mountain of research has linked loneliness to an increased risk of dementia, depression, anxiety, heart disease, stroke and early death.
Loneliness is officially a health emergency in California’s San Mateo County, which is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and includes part of Silicon Valley.
The county’s Board of Supervisors passed a resolution on Tuesday that declared loneliness a public health crisis and pledged to explore measures that promote social connection in the community.
It’s the first county in the U.S. to make such a declaration.
Oh look. The place with all the incel accelerationalist neoreactionaries has a lonliness epidemic. I guess it better late than never. We really do need to figure out a way to help these folks. Third places would be nice, but I guess they would not want to include everyone. I wonder if my town bailed on plans for that since it would have attracted homeless folks. So much to work on.