what can the current administration do to bring back social life?
A lot of people think the pandemic killed social life or drastically reduced it. That's somewhat accurate but I think it isn't the full story of the death of social life. Let me explain. We moved in just 15 years from going to work in-person, getting together to play video games together on the couch, going to in-person meetups, and going out places to do things at night even, to working from home, socializing almost solely online (most people aren't social anymore), not ever going out at night (we don't have any more nightlife), and gaming alone on our PCs at night, going to bed, rinse, brush, sleep, wake up, repeat.
This is not healthy. Part of Making America Healthy Again should be Making America Social Again. I really believe that. Being alone almost all the time is not healthy. I believe there's a corporate incentive to keep everyone non-social. Think about how much more money corporations make from PC gaming subscriptions rather than in person couch gaming and arcades. Think about the health problems that come from not getting any sunlight. If you can't think of it, research it. Its a thing. And those health problems are something that corporations can profit off of because of the impact on mental health. I could go on and on and on.
I believe corporations took advantage of the pandemic as an opportunity to halt social activity in many places and purposely not bring it back in order to move towards their agenda of everything being online, including any and all social activity. This must be stopped.
Online activity is great. I'm an obsessed techie. But unless your the most extreme possible introvert, its not good for your mental health to have no social life. I'm an extreme introvert and I'm online often, but there's a reason I go to meetups to counterbalance that. Even I have to go to meetups a few times a week or else I'll go insane. But I'm not the only one, there's science that proves most humans genuinely need other people.
I just think if we don't have any diverse human interaction, we're screwed in terms of fixing our health.
I also argue that interacting with family is great but its not enough. Humans generally need DIVERSE social interaction WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
And there needs to be policies in place to promote this. Governments and corporations should not just be using this stuff as a means of social control (which is what I think is going on).