How will we tackle the pandemic of loneliness after Covid? | Brigid Delaney
With technology increasingly driving us away from real life encounters, deliberate steps must be made to bring us back to each other
It was New Year’s Eve going into 2020, and I was in a pub in Castlemaine with my friend Stu Speirs.
“What word sums up most for what you want from the year?” I asked him.
“Community,” he said, without hesitation. “A rebellion against this day and age’s individualism and individual interest. And instead an interdependence on others – and a sense of interconnectedness.”
This was all very articulate for 1am on New Year’s Eve but Stu had been thinking about this a lot. He works in event management for
