choice the dog kept me busy i walked him a lot i think he also loved the attention when i was at home so much of why i think this halls of. studies show that physical contact is helping people cope with a crisis. but just how effective is it when your liaison can't talk back. well it's the same case with a 6 stall business is booming plus the technology has advanced you still can have a conversation with these next robotic sex aides but people do take them on road trips as you'll see in about it a little warning some of the sounds in this report may get your pulse racing. now that she's got a head say hello to lucy for 5 years she's been learning to speak but has circuits still require a bit of tinkering. and. because

it can connect to the net well it feels. lucy will one day be able to hold simple conversations because these dolls are meant to offer more than just sex re sing about as. we don't want. the whole talk something you. make human abscess so tight will make him part of something posted your all your other best or something like this. for now leonard lou's dolls are limited to little more than a moan making them good enough for their primary purpose. and the microchips in their heads mean they can groan in english japanese and chinese apparently. a good market for the dolls is germany but leonard says the lack of german hasn't proven

a problem so far. when i see. reviews from customers when they get their dogs very happy that try to sell with was a france oh i got nice stuff from iran. oh i feel so happy oh my life chance is with. can come into my life. so well when i see it is it bad emails all of it bad reviews on the internet i fear on the and i am more more prepared for the further movements in this business for those this is a like many sex doll factories demand for the products here has doubled during the coronavirus pandemic learned lou has received countless photos from happy customers after all dolls are exempt from rules around face coverings and you can take them

anywhere with you regardless of physical distancing rules. during lockdowns they help their owners forget how alone they actually are leonard lou thinks he's doing a service to humanity. as a mom and create indoors for man. and they do have a request they have needs and the it have it has big market. and my mother said ok well you have others who can do that since it is not illegal you can do that if you can help others. and with his vast array of fabricated friends he could help just about anyone. and let's bring in psychiatry as their own john biology of india's national institute of mental health and your sinuses 1st of all is

a 6 stolen effective treatment for chronic loneliness. you know. it's very individual late so it might be people some it might not be person rather it depends on the need for social dutch as you were mentioning the need for physical proximity which has degrees to doing to knock down times saw are it's one reason looking at it but then again. it depends it depends in societies cultures about it's acceptable to eat and whether it can be a replacement for the human touch our human proselytes what about. pets have actually been studied year or over the last 6 months there's been a lot of studies especially with cats dogs fish. and they have classically been seen to improve that human connection it's seemed to

relieve depression anxiety loneliness and specially when you're not able to meet others to help you to stay connected to the feeling of human the feeling of being a human is retained so the pretty useful measures and have been studied quite much indeed so how else would you advise someone who is feeling lonely and forced into isolation. i think virtual medium have really taken up. the a speaking virtually year and staying connected to at least 4 or 5 keepers and it's a major one thing that we keep telling people who are isolated are in quarantined that that make sure that at least you talk to one person beat a stranger and one person plenty and whatever hobbies you have i think the lockdown and all that situation have given us plenty of opportunities to nurture

that and that's a real real way to stay positive so text being given a boost but a british survey shows one in 10 people experienced loneliness before the great low down 2 weeks in that rose to one in 4 young people was 3 times more likely to feel those feelings why is that i mean i thought young people spend most of their time in for their mobile phones. yeah i think as you rightly said corbett has brought to us the real difference between a digital interface connectivity and human connectivity we have been doing some work on the concept of touch hunger like we feel hungry for food to people water we also have a cause that's hunger that can become chronic and especially in this unprecedented situation when we are not able to physically need people no matter how much virtually does and that affects specially people who are in you know that a dollar since we were young because human touch social touch affectionate dutch

are very important in stages of human development and mostly that will be affecting the young and also the older people those who are of up at the pipe it's the i like the cornelius easing from the i just want to point out a point you used in one of your papers you said all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit in a room alone what's wrong with us. yeah i think that's something which really made me reflect when i wrote the quote that you're mentioning from my paper on ocean that lesion and london and. i also mentioned that we need to confront the loneliness into sunday's shoot basis you know the great lines a quite subtle so i believe that this break some part of this break was needed and it's a critical balance between knowing how to see a spend time with oneself versus socializing and if either of it is not enough then

that's the problem so one thing that the lockdown article the crisis has also helped us in is trying an understanding how can we spend time with ourselves you know having a saudi chuka having enjoying our hobbies reflecting on us and that's one big speech really we can use to deal with this chronic loneliness not only in the pandemic but even after that really briefly after the pandemic what happens then when people ditched their dog or that sexto woman's mental health speech such an issue. of course i think this is just the tip of the iceberg and the beginning we're looking at next 6 months to one year mental health issues are going to race. i as a mental health professional my person take will be that people will try to at least you know they will learn to spend more time with themselves virtual medium can be a medium of communication and of course things like. you know as you're mentioning

exalts or you know even robotics that even virtual robotic artificial intelligence these will come up gradually in mitigating the military will have to leave it. thank you very much for being on the show. thank you. now if you've got any questions on the coronavirus write to us or now you should channel is our science correspondent there. are any countries that seem to have achieved had immunity. the answer to this is a resoundingly no but it's still worth talking about herd immunity again at at this point in the pandemic just reminder herd immunity is what we all want it's the tipping point when enough of the population is a human to the virus that an infected person on average infects less than one other

person so the number of new infections falls and immunity can come either from having had the disease or receiving a vaccine it doesn't matter which most estimates say herd immunity will only be reached with cove at 19 when between 60 and 70 percent of the population acquires immune status and that could prove hard to reach especially if the munity to source code to proves to not be a very long term and those who've had it or in those who've been vaccinated which brings me to the country that i want to talk about i'm sweet which last spring swam against the lock down tide by largely leaving society open there and it was hit pretty hard by the virus and return although reaching herd immunity was never explicitly part of its government's coronavirus strategy it's logical to expect that we would possibly see an effect in

a place that had such high infection rates early on so are we seeing one well interestingly maybe despite its looser restrictions the average daily number of new cases in sweden remained quite low throughout the summer even when they began rising again and many other european countries were. with tighter restrictions that's not direct evidence that the beginnings of herd immunity could be playing a role there but it's a tantalizing hand that it might be. going

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