Miscellaneous | Other Stuff

In This Time of Panic, We Look to Generation X for Inspiration

Keep calm and put on some flannel.

This explains why I was mystified as to why there was so much freaking out about social isolation. Not only was it normal for us, we did it without smart phones, social media, or streaming media. We are GENERATION X (the second greatest generation) and we’re sick of being ignored by narcissistic boomers and millennials. To use the parlance of my times: we totally rule.

Health & Fitness | Health

Loneliness kills: A new public health crisis (and what we can do about it) | TheHill

Bill Frist and Donato Tramuto note studies show social isolation is a health hazard at least as significant as smoking and suggest medical interventions and policy changes to reverse the trend.