There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

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Indeed, from 1998 to 2018, people who live by themselves started spending much more time alone overall:We’ve got a puzzle here. People are more alone than ever, but they’re not feeling much lonelier than they used to. We do get lonely; we just don’t get lonely enough.

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