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b'I want to talk about the loneliness epidemic. People are talking about it like it\'s something that the pandemic brought about, but it\'s not. It has been here for a long time. The loneliness epidemic was here long before the 2019 pandemic, but people were more likely to speak about it, speak about the fact that they were at home alone, or they felt loneliness, that they felt like, wow, I don\'t have anyone near me. I don\'t have someone to turn to. I want to say, don\'t blame the pandemic. This is something that\'s been here long before. It\'s been happening decade after decade. It came to a point where I think , and I\'ve said this before, I think that people felt ashamed, that it was their fault that they didn\'t have any friends, which meant that there was something wrong with them.But what we noticed was throughout the decades, it was getting worse and worse, and that you are not at fault. People are not at fault. It\'s the way society has been moving towards is that, "let me do it on my own, you should do everything on your own. You should be self-sufficient. You should do everything by yourself. You should live by yourself."'