Indelicately stated perhaps, but I quite agree with the sentiment. They’re up there a shorter time than deployed military personnel, and they’re in space, not some impoverished country we have no business invading. You can call your kids, or your parents, thats a common thing astronauts do! Even facetime, there’s regular ISS livestreams, I think they even streamed themselves playing KSP at one point. I went longer without giving my folks a hug during covid, and all I had out my window was deepest suburban hell.
Being separated from your family sucks, but to phrase it like it’s a hardship that outweighs being in space…? Only a few hundred people have ever experienced what they get to do. They’re advancing our species with real, substantive, impactful actions, which is more than any of us can claim. They’ll survive eight months without hugs.