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COVID-19 and the Loneliness Crisis
…for projects and services, and meaningful cut-through as quickly as can possibly be managed. *** The loneliness caused or exacerbated by COVID-19 will outlast COVID-19. Although it seems dissonant to…
Coffee, COVID and Porridge
There is something about emerging from lockdown from the dread beast COVID that is akin to the end of a war. The bombs have stopped, blackout has been repealed, and…
No island is an island: Covid and the deadliness of willed isolation
…Covid pandemic. Our government, like other governments of wealthy nations, buys up vaccines to protect the population. Meanwhile millions of people in poorer nations go unvaccinated, unprotected, and today we…
COVID-19 – Killing Off Older People?
…if healthy older people have been delivered a bad time by government COVID policies, frailer people are having it worse. They will hear in the media that some hospital doctors…
Seminar – Fred Cooper on ‘Family Carers, Loneliness, and COVID-19: Preliminary Findings from ‘Caring through Coronavirus’
…It considers tangled histories of loneliness and care, explores narratives from family carers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and situates carer loneliness within broader political structures of marginalisation and abandonment. This…
COVID-19 and Captivity
Gabriel Lawson writes about prisoners-of-war dealing with isolation and its absence in the next post for our series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19’….
‘Within Almost-Touching Distance’: Solitude and Physical Isolation
…is for most people not an everyday experience. But COVID-19 has radically changed this. For people living on their own, physical solitude has become the norm. This was especially true…
On Wanting to be Andrew Scott’s Mother
…Scott’s admission to hospital for ‘minor surgery’. No details, except the issue was ‘not serious or COVID-related’. In early August I received another email saying Scott was still not well…
Pandemic and the Horrors of Solitude
Loneliness has been called a ‘modern plague’. COVID-19 spreads that plague in differing ways: changing our relation to each other in public spaces and private homes, transforming our civic behaviours…
With or Without You: Solitude and Family Life
…rely on their families for company. COVID-19 has presented major challenges to both sorts of people, especially during lockdown when households were required to isolate and children were kept home…
Domestic Solitude in Early Modern Britain
The social distancing resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has encouraged us to seek new ways to socialise and communicate with our friends, colleagues, and loved ones. From online catchups for…
The Unexpected Solace of Lockdown
One striking feature of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the number of people who have expressed pleasure in the solitariness of lockdown. ‘Solitude’ in our society is usually equated with…