so i have several other countries of the purse so that a lie is known as the c s t o, the central asian nation of cuz it's done come right here. so i'm talking just 10 seconds done. also to bought all these roman cos the road as the story of. ringback the see where the, where we do the today, we observed a training exercise for a counter terrorist operation at a hydro electric facility in the feller russian city of breast. this was the 1st time in the history of such drills that special forces participated with scouts attacked drones, hitting terrorist weapons. military divers also took part. we worked on refining old and new methods for freeing hostages and storming various types of structures, including water transport vessels,

full. so we're doing that. so today we games need his experience and shared our findings. i hope we will only participate in exercises with, god forbid that some kind of analogous conflict situation would happen. but in general, the exercises were held at the proper level of the forces of the collective, secure just reset organization, conducted multi accounts or service operation to free hostages at the breast hydro electric station that special and its various units on the roof and produce done simultaneously stored in the bus control tower and a bolts captured by the sailors. now the entire exercise was overseen by the collective headquarters of this steel countries. the duration began with the storming of the boss, and the stations controls our by special forces of curtis dun and bella roost. the sub, a charge of the hydro electric facility was averted, hostages were released, and all the terrorists were either killed or detained. according to the legends of

exercise, the terrorists also captured one of the both of the station. now this is when comb that drivers stepped in and neutralized and prevented the savings from reaching their goal. now their training day ended, when military and nears inspected the inside area for explosives and rescue workers of the emergencies, ministry of the roof extinguished, remaining fires, evacuated and provided assistance to all of the victims. vermont call for a party, rest beller. it's kind of a favor. this is a topic of us money. now, here's the 360 view of next, then we'll live. well, that's for them. the

the kobe 19 pandemic has been declared over by most countries, and the world health organization is great. hope that i declare to code 19 over as a global health emergency, but the effects of the pen demik 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 installation and the seclusion on society brought on by the cobit 19 pandemic affected life. let's get started. the isolation, disconnection, lack of social interaction, all feelings, experienced as a result of the covered 19 pandemic. pandemic loneliness is now the term which is being used following the lock downs, social distancing travel restrictions,

and other various measures which significantly limited the ability for people to engage and interact with each other and their usual social activities of the measures and 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 be at work or within their social circle, had led to a long term decrease in this 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 and state 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 in the emotional distress and loneliness. while hard to gauge can 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 an 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 were most are in our emotional distress. but will this be an incurable illness and what effects will it have on our future? so to help us discuss as simone hanger, 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 loveliness and social disconnection that are most valuable through all the research right now. number one is of course those people that were in nursing home environments like my mothers who were having the wellbeing pins, 2 visitors coming into that nursing home environment were 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 loneliness effect even often depends image and also can also she and their sense of identity and also the social skills. so jen z would be and number one even prior to depend debit card they were coming up in the 2018 singleness indexes, 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 low associate economic environments with less access to social infrastructure and a certain, all the instructions that people needed for mental health support during a, you know, an incident like the pandemic, new thing. 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 hot and even more so with parents were already trying to limit social media use . they could no longer do that. that 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 markers 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 obviously we'll talk to not in, in lighthouse questions as well. would you consider health professionals?

and as i'm prepared 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. we depend every, unless your bill gates the cost and the new and for the rest of us. but i think we, we can actually look forward now, and the us surgeon general has disrupted advisory with specific guidelines to educate mental health professionals and health care professionals. on the intersection between our physical well being admin to wellbeing and social connection and the benefits of social connection to out healing as a, as a species. now that knowledge was not as prevalent, and you can imagine during the time that makes the health care professionals mental health was a lease 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 anyone was 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 research and general's advisory and the advisory of other 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 fiscal touch helps us as human sapiens. so when we were evolving is early humans, we obviously evolved 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 tag is threats to my well being, simon, etc, etc. so what happens when he mending 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, in a moment. but so you can imagine on an incidental level, this is not destructive, it is not disruptive to have that tape of a fight or flight. i'm sort separated from my tribe as to lonely. but what we're seeing with the loneliness 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, floating 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 try to have the touch of another human being when we actually have to touch that helps to soothe that stressed response. it helps to release of the types and does

mean happy hormones lift out mood, improve out mental well being. and imagine if you, i was the others in relationship independently. but i was living separately from my partner at the beginning of it. and so i couldn't have that, that embrace, sir, 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 didn't get that physical attached. 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 lonely brain creates a loose alignment. 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 sign in your mood. this will then mean that you're more reactive. you have out this with other people. people who are lonely, chronically, also have a less accommodated duties and all the 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're already what having these thoughts in your head, yes, you're more likely to have it maybe says the not have 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 so that this just happened lately, brain spirals, and loops even for us in on pandemic conditions involving 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 premature death, 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 sustain cigarettes a day, 6 alcoholic drinks today and pollution and also obesity. 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 to 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 depend demik? yeah, so i always think this is really interesting and so ironic because we were isolating, obviously, because of a very aggressive spread of a contagious virus. yet what happened cost is, is 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. i mean, from what, of course, some of us who were punch into learning this and did not recall that post tend to make 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 the group itself, it pers 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 brought with an analog childhood. maybe we recovered a little bit more easily and integrate our cells after a small period of social openness, more than then that particular group. thank you, simone hang after the break. most. i just don't question is rather when the next event happens, which causes the globe to have to go into locked on again, but will be handled differently. we'll discuss the

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in saint petersburg. how rusty is the director here and i bet he has met the welcome back. i'm just kind of using you, we're watching the 360 view. we're continuing our discussion about the long term effects on society caused by the cobit 19 locked down with our guest simone hang a motor. so speaker on loneliness and also rob les 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, you know, can do to improve things successfully. we need to cultivate a culture of connection. that means empathy, kindness,

inclusivity into the way as individuals. we live our lives thinking about sale or human versus a very individualistic way that we have been living in the past, i guess 2 decades from one of the studies show us. so firstly, putting that had on when we leave the house and we interact with out the rest. and 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 village is 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 of 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 physical immunity and 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 distinct sizing loneliness in the conversation. so young people because i think that that's a big part of it too, is not being afraid to say on lonely. it's a biological response that we will experience at least once in our lives that online interactions have enough of an 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 examples. i don't know, tom would digital output, very, very active on social media, but we really focus. i 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 down a bit of a post and goes to a create content. and then i, i try not to be scrolling on there. now imagine for people who don't have the boundaries of who's prefrontal cortex there, this tune of less than they don't have those for decision making type of capabilities. pandemic hit technology was everywhere. the only way to connect and those boundaries would not this. so i think the answer is i think it absolutely can disrupt the way in which we're 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, we're adults to also to boundaries on our technologies we, we, we have to, it's, it's, it's frank, mentoring our attention span for the people that we love for in person in front of us who have the interest in chemicals to diminish element 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 have right, 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 dissolve to happen, they were comfortable quickly and they also experience lo sites, holidays because in these highly structurally connected communities,

neighbors totally shut off extra social information. and because they know it's out of 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 to he's business. that if something might depend, every 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 happened 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 closing mistrust and disconnection within sight of fabrics. the case of this is also another cause of luminous. and i feel that gen the of far less conversation about the differences between us to farmer compassionate and open and

knowledgeable about the differences within a population. how to be sensitive towards different sorts of individuals. and they do see each other in a much less guess, bigoted way, then maybe even my generation to generation for me. so there are also incredibly connected things about trans, the 2, and then mindsets and the way that they st. but the technology use and what happened with a pen them, it also does work against them. but i do want to emphasize that i'm not at all doom and gloom a gen the because there's a lot of good things about the mindset and the culture that what's full of 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 a striking wheel chair. and uh, because i was living in board. my sister was in australia. we kind of gotten settled into this nursing home facility and she had all of these visitors. and i

really realized that those people who were having their 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 you go to the health benefits to send you live, spend at the end of your life. we also notice something called the widow is effect . 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 with her the running of a social calendar and the mail would follow and passed quite shortly after and they call it, the widow is 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 want to 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 live shortening diseases and particularly cardiovascular stuff and struck shop again. and again. also in the us search engine was advisory as one of the leading illnesses that loneliness the actually contributes to. so 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, i seek 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 hang or 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 pin 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. i'm sorry, now hughes,

and this has been your 360 view of the news affecting you. thanks for watching the . i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show you alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence, and the point obviously, is to place a trust rather than to the various job. i mean with the artificial intelligence we have summoning the theme and the robot most protective phone existence was on

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