Interesting study finding that isolation lon..

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Interesting study finding that isolation & loneliness shorten life spans equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The lockdowns & “social distancing” — including the alienation of masks that keep us from smiling at each other — were not only not effective means of stopping the spread of the Chinese virus, they are bad for our health

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Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues find that individuals' social relationships have as much influence on mortality risk as other well-established risk factors for mortality, such as smoking.

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Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review

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