The Government-Imposed Epidemic of Loneliness Study

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The Surgeon General recently published a detailed study of loneliness in the United States. Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately half of U.S. adults reported experiencing measurable levels of loneliness. Social isolation and loneliness increase the risk for premature death, heart disease, and stroke by some 30 percent — or the same as smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Additionally, socially isolated older adults have a higher chance of developing dementia than their peers.

A medical study cited in Surgeon General’s report struck me as really rich: “The lack of social connection may increase susceptibility to viruses and respiratory illness.” Where was the reliance on this report by the “experts” when they locked us in our homes for Covid?

The federal government’s solution to this deadly epidemic is its plan to establish a “National Strategy to Advance Social Connection.” Maybe this is precisely what is wrong. Since the Great Society programs in the 1960s, the federal government’s ever-expanding regulation of our lives has encouraged us to look to the government for help instead of each other.

The National Strategy includes “Cultivating a Culture of Connection.” But then why do Washington D.C.’s power brokers, the media, and various hustlers of all colors insist on telling us that white people have inborn bias and manipulate us to shun those who are not of our skin color or sexual preference? “Culture of connection” my eye!

And one more thing. It is curious that simultaneously artificial intelligence is promoted as the next best thing in medicine — even replacing mental health therapists. Ironically, research has shown that the patient-physician relationship can be more therapeutic than some medications. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t want to talk to a machine. Even the drive-through at Jack-in-the-Box has real people behind the microphone.

My guest and I will discuss these things and a whole lot more today.

Dr. Renée S. Kohanski, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist with fellowship training in forensic psychiatry. She completed her residency at Georgetown University, where she served as Chief Resident, and her fellowship at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Kohanski has enjoyed a broad-based practice in academic, community, and forensic psychiatry. She has been a board examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia and the University of Connecticut Schools of Medicine. She has also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of MDEdge Psychiatry. Dr. Kohanski currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons.


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Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Stanford and earned her MD at UCSF Medical School. Dr. Singleton completed 2 years of Surgery residency at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, and her Anesthesia residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital. She was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, before returning to California for private practice. While still working in the operating room, she attended UC Berkeley Law School, focusing on constitutional and administrative law. She interned at the National Health Law Project, and practiced insurance and health law.

Dr. Singleton has published numerous articles, given presentations on health policy, and had many radio and television appearances, and a monthly radio show, Health Freedom Now. She started a blood pressure screening clinic at her church and make-shift clinics in two rural villages in El Salvador. Dr. Singleton ran for Congress in 2012 with a message of personal freedom and limited government.

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