WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’

mydude , 7 months ago

Good thing we didnt follow The Great Barrington Declaration then… gbdeclaration.org

Lemminary , 7 months ago

Eh, I’m fine with my voluntary isolation. I have no trouble making friends at all. In fact, every weekend when I go out and I meet someone new, and it’s either a decent time or a miserable experience like this past weekend. I’ve yet to be able to say that it was a great pleasure meeting anyone in the past 4 years save for one person and even he does some shady shit that I have to put up with. Why does it have to be like this? It’s insane.

egeres , 7 months ago

Very noble on their side, but I would bet no government is going to do actual shit about this

Franzia , 7 months ago

The government noticing social murder for the first time, huh?

AllonzeeLV , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Hyper competitive global market Capitalism, that infects every aspect of our lives, teaches us to compete against each other as enemies. The zero sum mindsets of “you have to lose so I can feel like I’ve won” and “You’re poverty makes me feel wealthier by comparison” and “look at those selfish homeless people lowering my property values by greedily continuing to exist while destitude.”

As end stage capitalism continues to progress and the top level capitalists fight to consume one another’s empires of dirt in their desperation for new growth/metastasis on a finite, overpopulated, already raped and pillaged world, what did you expect? That after a lifetime of being taught to be greedy, selfish, and sociopathic, oh sorry, rationally self-interested, we’d make lots of friends and have lots of next gen capital battery babies along the way?

Fuck off. This is what live together or die alone looks like. Anything less would make us filthy commie socialists or something after all, amirite?

agitatedpotato , 7 months ago

uwu did WHO senpai just notice me?

Marrenia , 7 months ago

I’m sure just building more suburbs and blocking all walkable city efforts will help this problem!/s

FireRetardant , 7 months ago

Most people aren’t even ready to admit that this style of development is even a factor in loneliness, mental health, and general strength of a community.

TheFonz , 7 months ago

Still lots of boomers in senior planning positions. It doesn’t help that the only people that attend public meetings are also seniors and boomers so nimbyism is rampant.

Marrenia , 7 months ago

It doesn’t help that they specifically hold those meetings during most people’s normal work hours making it impossible for anyone but retired people, disabled people, or people who work say 3rd shift to show up

TheFonz , 7 months ago

Yeah that’s true unfortunately.

FireRetardant , 7 months ago

To be truly fair, there should be several meetings that cover the same topics throughout the week/month so that more people have an oppourtunity to be heard

ChemicalPilgrim , 7 months ago

Leave me alone WHO, always in my DMs

Haus , 7 months ago

Laughs in Introvert.

_number8_ , 7 months ago

damn i should switch to smoking

YeOldGrim , 7 months ago

Just don’t get the packet with whatever warning applies to you, and you’ll be fine 🤪

MamboGator , 7 months ago

“Alone is an unfortunate predicament. Lone is an aesthetic choice.”

youtube.com/watch?v=TnR_apLGQNw

otp , 7 months ago

When did “cigarettes smoked per day” become the standard unit of measurement for negative impacts on health?

SheeEttin , 7 months ago

And they say it’s Americans that will use anything but the metric system.

RandomStickman , 7 months ago

1 pack a day is about 2.7 milideath/1000s for us metric folks

CTDummy , 7 months ago

milli/1000s

Son, go get dad’s 223. The imperialists are on the lawn again.

Drusas , 7 months ago

They're just trying to make it relatable to people. (Un?)fortunately, cigarettes per day hasn't been relatable to people since the '90s.

XbSuper , 7 months ago

When they made them public enemy number 1.