a message to the world as a whole is that the policy in an issue must remain supported and serviced by the united nations. and the u. n. r w a to us. so you know the r g 20 conferences kicking off in a few days a new daddy will be there with us special coverage. but it turns out neither russian or chinese president will be attending. now according to bloomberg news e u leaders at the summit side to take advantage of g, i included the absence by closing up the various african countries. well, suppose, good luck with that a special coverage takes off the the cobra 19 pandemic has been declared over by most countries and the world health organization is great hope that i declare to corporate and 19 the over as a global health emergency. but the effects of dependent on mental health are still

taking a toll on the global population sky. now, he was in, on this edition of 360 view, we're going to look at how the long term effects of the i solution. and the seclusion on society brought on by the cobra. 19 pandemic affected life. let's get started. the isolation disconnection, lack of social interaction, all feelings, experienced as a result of the target 19 pandemic. pandemic. loneliness is now the term which is being used the following. the locked downs, social distancing travel restrictions, and other various measures which significantly limited the ability for people to engage and interact with each other in their usual social activities to the measure of some restrictions regarding physical distancing or gatherings. reduced the

opportunity for face to face interactions. and while some might have enjoyed the ability to stay at home and work remotely, the long term effect of limited face to face social interaction. whether it be at work or within their social circle, had led to a long term decrease in the sense of connection and more people feeling isolated from the lifestyle any before. now studies specifically done in india, found says 202145 percent feel loneliness, sometimes, and 20 percent are feeling very lonely. the national institute of health down students forced to stay home during cobit experienced a sharp rise in loneliness. the study taken in india found females actually suffered the most. so you have the very important social support systems that were disrupted by the pandemic. not only every day interactions with work colleagues, but doing the inability to meet in person or travel. people lost touch. also,

with family members and friends to the emotional distress and loneliness, while hard to gauge could potentially be very harmful if ignored. in china, there was a prevalent increase in feelings of loneliness. now, during the pandemic, an overwhelmingly 74.6 percent of chinese residents surveyed reported severe loneliness. this is up from 17.4 percent pre pandemic. and since the pandemic restrictions have lifted, chinese residents reported overall 25.4 percent feeling lonely. showing the effects of coven are still lingering, but it's not only the restrictions and limits put on interacting with one another, but also the restrictions on public spaces, limiting recreational activities, including those which happened outdoors, the counseling of events, or even the in security of not knowing what was going to happen next? all have contributed to a present society or most are in our emotional distress. but will this be an

incurable illness and what effects would have on our future? so to help us discuss is simone hang motivational speaker on loneliness and author of let's talk about loneliness, simone. thank you so much for joining us. you know, starting off what route do you think was hardest hit by loneliness during the pandemic? i think there are 3 specific groups whenever we look at logan s and social disconnection that are most vulnerable through all the research right now. number one is of course those people that were in nursing home environments like my mother who were having the wellbeing pins, 2 visitors coming into that nursing home environment with denied that. so we can also see that gen z, those born from the late 19 ninety's genji, particularly who were developing that social skills and social identity during those very crucial years of young adolescents had to do education online. and that

we know has a long term luminous effect. even off the depends image and also can also sion the their sense of identity and also the social skills. so jen z would be and number one even prior to the pen debit card. they were coming up in the 2018 singleness index is the loveliest of all generations. and i'm so we can talk a bit more about that later. and the 3rd group, like anything in society, people from lowest search, economic environments, with less access to social infrastructure and certain, all the infrastructures that people needed for mental health support during a, you know, an instant life depend demik. do you think this is the same group which was most effective post pandemic as well? i think we can eliminate, for really practical reasons. the 1st groups of those people in nursing home facilities who are relying visitors now have the visitors again. and so there's no rule, huge data coming out saying that that group is still suffering. but the 2nd 2 groups,

particularly, i want to lean into jen z. they are coming up again and again as being more and more literally because of the adoption of social media. during the pandemic that was heightened even more so with parents were already trying to limit social media use. they could no longer do that. it was the only way that there was some children could have access to human connection with via almost veracious use of online means . so what we found is that group now is still showing like markets of loneliness. and then of course, lower search economic groups. i think a big thing we have to look at is a society with social infrastructure, which a human connection is making it really equitable. and i'm sure we'll talk to not in, in lighthouse questions as well. would you consider health professionals as unprepared and preventing damage to mental health during the pandemic? i don't think any of us in any set to we're prepared for what happens with the pandemic unless your bill gates are costing you and for the rest of us. but i think

we, we can, i look forward now and the research in general has disrupted advisory with specific guidelines to educate mental health professionals and health care professionals on the interest section between our physical well being and ment, wellbeing, and social connection and the benefits of social connection to ab healing as a, as a species. now that knowledge was not as prevalent. and you can imagine during the pandemic for health care professionals. mental health was a, at least for the 1st year, depends or make. let's look at a secondary to the emergency that was people's physical health. so we can't really, i wouldn't like to put any lens of blaming any want to saying they weren't prepared because i don't think any of us were very well prepared. we can only look now into following the surgeon general's advisory and the advisory by the researches into making better integration for that awareness around social connection and health

benefits. that link will 9 across the health care sector. what is the correlation between loneliness and physical distancing? absolutely, so let's explain 1st what is happening in the body with loneliness, and that will explain how the physical touch helps us as human sapiens. so when we were evolving is early humans, we obviously vote in tribes and i think a lot of people, none of this, but a brain quickly connected safety with numbers. and so there was a sense of calm when we were socially connected with the not pride. our entire another system knew that when i'm with others, i'm most supported and i'm more resilient to save the tooth. tide is threats to my well being and etc, etc. so what happens when a human being would be for an out of that tribe and lost on the savannah as a body would have a fight or flight response? this is why loneliness is linked to information in the body of cardiovascular disease and lots of other things which we'll talk to in

a moment. but so you can imagine on an incidental level, this is not disruptive. it is not disruptive to have that take of a fight or flight. i'm sort separated from my tribe. i still lonely. but what we're seeing with the luminous epidemic now is that people feeling this same luminous, chronically all the time because they feel isolated. and so that means the stress hormones just looping in the body, flooding the body over and over again, and that is what destroys our community and our well being by the time. so what happens with physical distancing is when you don't have the touch of another human being when we actually have physical touch, that helps to soothe that stress response. that helps to release of the types and doesn't mean happy hormones lift. i'll move to improve our mental well being. and imagine if your eyes are, there's no relationship independently, but i was living separately from my partner at the beginning of it. and so i couldn't have that that embrace. so for those people in the, in homes,

they had that. but for those people who were single or not living with other people during the pandemic, they did get that physical touch. and it is very, very important. were the people who are already prone to loneliness, more likely to isolate and the pin demick? yes, so the literally brain creates a loose so let me brain is not rational. so if you're already lonely, your brain will come up with excuses to isolate you further. and things will happen like you will be, so you have less than good quality sleep. so that already will affect your search. find in your mood. this will then mean that you're more reactive. you have out this with other people's people. what lonely chronically also has a lesson company, disability or not a shop. and then you also hold your loved ones that you might have existing loved ones to a higher standard than is necessary. so you become ultra sensitive and you become

you perceive threats, social threats. so you perceive that people might be coming out to you, or that nobody wants to be around you and it becomes a loop, then you ask, like yourself cetera. so if you already what having these thoughts in your head, yes, you are more likely to have, or maybe something not a seen as much of the impact of social distance thing as those people who with very, very social and not literally pride to define demick. but you will isolate yourself out of this just happened literally, brain spirals, and loops even for us in non pandemic conditions. combining this actually constitute a risk for premature mortality and negatively affect mental and physical health. yeah, so we know across multiple, multiple studies now for years that as social isolation, loneliness is a huge, huge respect to for permits to adjust, as well as number of life threatening diseases the, the best part of which is cardiovascular disease. so loneliness is more dangerous

fuel bodies and smoking 16 cigarettes a day, 6 alcoholic drinks today and pollution and also be city. sorry, it is very, very, um, natural to us to be not having some form of social connection with other people. and so now in the us, the visor came out the us surgeon general. it is a matter of you know, national health attention for loneliness to be taken very, very seriously as a threat. 12 physical health and somebody personally, i was really happy this advisory was recently dropped because prior to this, you know, a few of us were shouting on the mountain top about it. but now there's a real push to make it part of the education system. this knowledge of part of the media and entertainment, and the tech industries as well to have it integrated this knowledge, that this is actually a threat to our physical health. therefore, at what point do you feel that social isolation and distancing, begin doing more damage to our health, then good in the timeline of the pen demik?

yeah, so i always think this is really interesting and still ironic because we were isolating, obviously, because of a very aggressive spread of a contagious virus. yet what happens hospice? this point is when social isolation started to really sink in, we were actually running out of unity long time. pasta pandemic. so sorry, the exact thing we were trying to say immune from would have caused some of us who were punch. it's loading us and did not recall that post pandemic with the long term effects to our physical health and on top 200 z before you know, one of the reasons i think they are still a group of the stuff that post pandemic is because the part of time when they were learning to get the social skills to bounce back off of the pandemic, they were deprived of that. you know, so for those of us that might already have strong communication, interpersonal skills that we've worked with an animal of childhood. maybe we

recovered a little bit more easily and integrate ourselves after a small period of social openness, more than then that particular group. thank you, simone hang. or after the break, most i just don't question is rather when the next event happens, which caused the globe to have to go into locked on again, but will be handled differently. we'll discuss. the

vast majority of the us citizens are not well rented. they 2, they pay very little attention to foreign policy. all of it have trouble locating ukraine on a map. and as a result, they've been very susceptible to a steady stream of propaganda that has painted russia as this aggressive imperial power. the in a c, 90 age, the pleasure of rica became a us colony, but still retain its own cultural identity and speak in favor of independence. we be thrown into prison today, close to health, it's population. the grow, the residence of was a retail have new representation in congress and con,

booked and u. s. presidential elections like okay, we're going to make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for. even if we were offered citizenship that we would prefer to play once again, it was in his twenties. he chose to fight, so he's homelands independence. we felt that we could generate more of a spirit of resistance rather than of submissive except a reality that we fell asleep. shot fear, my sorry that i decided to fight for my country. no, not could i have done things differently. yes, absolutely. do i now think that violence is not the means to achieve anything? absolutely. a welcome back. i'm just kind of using you were watching the 360 view. we're continuing our discussion about the long term effects on society, caused by the cobit 19 loc downs, with our guest simone hang

a motivational speaker on loneliness and author of less talked about loneliness. thank you for staying with us simone. you know, i want to start off this segment by talking about researchers and how they can develop better interventions to increase people's amount of social interaction or to improve the quality of their close relationship. what do you suggest? yes, and with this particular us search engine was advisory, that's come out as an entire strategy across all sectors. and what people can do to improve things successfully. we need to cultivate a culture of connection. that means empathy time this inclusivity is the way as individuals. we live our lives. thinking about feller, human versus the very individualistic way that we have been living in the past, i guess 2 decades from what the studies show us. so firstly, putting that had on when we leave the house when we interact with operations, when we go about that day when we create outsourced calendar, that's one of the things that we can do. and now the thing that is being advised to

local communities is how cities and towns are planned. we have to remember that when we were evolving and tries when we finally became you know, no no matic. our villages were always built around a central meeting place, like the town piazza or a place of worship of cities are no longer necessarily plants that way. and maybe we have to look at that and, and this idea of a culture connection that also syncs into how public transport and public places are being planned and used green spaces and cities as well. so that's always this kind of social infrastructure. and then of course, within the education and health care systems, as i mentioned, oh yes, having an awareness about the link between our physical immunity, the mental health and social connection and the benefits of being socially well connected is really, really, really important as well. so these are just a few things, and even some of the advisory was angel. so, you know, teachers actually putting into syllabus is the importance of the stigmatizing

loneliness and the conversation for young people. because i think that that's a big part of it too, is, is not being afraid to say, i'm only is a biological response that we will experience at least once in our lives that online interactions have enough. i'm in effect on preventing loneliness or do these interactions actually cause damage to how people will interact and person. yeah, this is a really good question. i think with the in a spread struck today by mentor and a lot of what's being called for us to also ask the transparency from tech companies to research as can have a data on the long term effects of social media use and build out studies. so the answer is it depends on your boundaries. so i would use myself of example, i don't know, tom would digital output, very, very active on social media. but we really focus on write about this in my book level of boundaries as to how many hours as to how technology is used in the

presence of others. the phone goes away. i'm not really a scroll, i'm a bit of a post and goes to create content and then i, i try not to be scrolling on there. now imagine for people who don't have the boundaries or whose prefrontal cortex there, this will have less than they don't have those for decision making type of capabilities. a pandemic hit technology was everywhere. the only way to connect and those boundaries were not the sort. i think the answer is, i think it's absolutely can disrupt the wayne, which we present with other people. and i think it's up to the parents about lessons to draw those boundaries. and then for those of us were adults to also to boundaries on our technologies. we, we, we have to, it's, it's, it's frank mentioning our attention span. so the people that we love for in person in front of us who have the input some chemicals to diminish alignment us. do you think we are presented in another situation in the future?

which calls for isolation and distancing the medical professionals and will be more informed to provide better guidance. everything that i've read points to that. and so being yes, i think we are so much better equipped as a society for another situation might depend demik. what we know is that communities that it already socially connected. however, when things like a pandemic or natural disaster happened, they were comfortable quickly and they also experience lo sites holidays because in these highly, especially connected communities, neighbors talk to each other, they share social information. and because they know it's how that the response time to any sort of emergencies quicker. so yes, i think we're going to be better prepared. but yes, we also have to do programs like this and write books like i have to shop from the rooftop to put in that social fabric. that cohesiveness that if something like

a pandemic, happen again, our word of mouth without access to each other is much quicker. and so we prevent lots of lot, we prevent illness, we prevent all the things that, that happen in a time of, of, you know, a negative emergency. you mentioned that there were specific issues for generations . the before the pandemic. like what i think one of the big issues that we read about is, is polarization causing mistrust and disconnection within sight of fabrics. the case of this is also another cause of luminous. and i feel that gen z alpha less culberson about the differences between us, the sama. compassionate and open and knowledgeable about the differences within a population has to be sensitive towards different sorts of individuals. and they do see each other in a much less guess. bigoted way than maybe even my generation to generation for me. so there are also incredibly connected things about trans the to and the mindset

and the way that they think. but the technology use and what happened with a pandemic also does work against them. but i do want to emphasize that i'm not at all doing gleaming gens the because there's a lot of good things about the mindset and the culture that works for them in terms of connection. what are the effects of loneliness on physical health, on living alone? there's also, you know, a lot of some research to suggest that loneliness is a, you know, a pre casts or, or a bedrock for depression and anxiety. and that might seem like a really logical link to some people, but some people are not aware of that. and it can also shop in other things like quoting disorder, which is also mental health disorder, which my, my people in my own family suffer from. so there's a lot of danger in loneliness, not just to the physical body, but in how it affects that mind me brain isolates further and then leads to depression and anxiety which, where we're seeing

a lot of post pandemic as well. now to address the question about living alone, you know, when we talk about the about people at the end of their lives and extending their life spend through human connection. i can really lean into this. it's my own personal story. my mother had a stroke which strikes are also one of the illnesses that are a big symptom of luminous. so she was in a striking wheel chair. and because i was living in board, my sister was in australia. we kind of go to settled into this nursing home facility and she had all of these visitors. and i really realized that those people who were having that life span kind of extended, she's now outlived the degenerative disease. she has by about 5 years. so she's now been there for 10 years, but particularly the beginning, she would have lines of people visiting. huh. so the seeds of human connection that you so right now, use those health benefits to send you live,

spend at the end of your life. we also know there's something called, the widow is a fact. so this is really interesting. women and men connect differently. so historically, where women would use the talent a and rum, the social calendar of the house. her husband would tag along. now, you know, we don't know how a recent data this is, but this is the widow is effect. and then when that particular woman would pass, she would take protests running at the social calendar. and the mail would follow and passed quite shortly after. and they call it, the widow was effect. this for a reason. just another case study that supports how important during that end winter of your life, human connection is to the quality of your life during that time. okay, i wanna make sure that i heard you clearly. so are you arguing that loneliness is a precursor to possibly getting a stroke? what we know is that loneliness can be like the petri dish for some like shortening

diseases, and particularly cardiovascular and struck shop again. and again, also in the us search engine was advisory as one of the leading illnesses that loneliness be actually contributes to it. for the very same thing that i was mentioning before about those trust home minds about the inflammation, the party that it causes. and a lot of other, you know, sick medical science behind it. but it's, it's actually, i think with quite amazed people the effect that loneliness and social isolation have on our physical bodies. thank you, simone hanger for your insight today. and if you like what she says, they hear you can read her book, let's talk about loneliness. thank you for joining us. scientist and members of society together must acknowledge that pet demik. loneliness had significant impacts on emotional and mental well being. the isolation and feeling of loneliness that were either forced or chosen in fear contributed to multiple mental health

challenges like stress, depression, and anxiety. and while these are just emotional effects, they are potentially devastating to one's physical being. and it is crucial that the global community acknowledges and addresses them, but i fear they will purposely be ignored because acknowledging their existence means one acknowledges they are the result of the decisions made regarding the pandemic. those we trust in obeyed to keep us healthy, have possibly caused us to become more sick. and i'm sorry now hughes, and this has been your 360 view of the news affecting you. thanks for watching the 1950 to us as i was returning to peaceful life with the newspapers didn't report

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