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How to beat the ‘social recession’ of COVID-19

September 04, 2020 • by Joseph Sunde

How to beat the ‘social recession’ of COVID-19

Before the COVID-19 crisis began, America was already facing a severe loneliness epidemic – marked by decades-long increases in suicide and chronic loneliness and declines in marriage and community attachment. Now, amid flurries of sweeping lockdowns, the struggle has become harder still, pushing any remnants of embodied community deeper into the confines of social media. Continue Reading...

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How to beat the ‘social recession’ of COVID-19

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Latest Posts

From CARES to worries: The post-COVID economy calls for bold entrepreneurship

Justice demands ‘Just Money’

Thank God for single-use plastic bags

Jimmy Lai verdict expected this week

Donald Trump’s bad prescription for drug prices

C.S. Lewis and Nicolás Maduro on Venezuela’s plunging birthrate

Kellyanne Conway and America’s politically fractured families

Acton Line podcast: COVID-19 pandemic economics with Dr. David Hebert

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