Name: Talking Coronavirus with Medical Professionals & Politicians | The Daily Social Distancing Show
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- You have a book that is coming out that speaks

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to a situation that we all find ourselves in right now

that we know and love, many people are forced

or not with the community they're used to.

You write in your book about how society is struggling

with a new disease and that is essentially loneliness.

What are some of the things people can do

- I'm so glad you asked, Trevor, because it's important

not just because loneliness makes us feel poorly,

but also because we now understand that chronic loneliness

It's associated with a shorter life span.

to ensure that we strengthen social connection.

I think that we can potentially come out of it

So number one, I think it's important that we spend

at least 15 minutes a day if not more engaged

whether that means video conferencing with them,

writing to them, calling them on the phone

And that means improving the quality of our time with others

by decreasing the distractions that we experience

So instead of talking to somebody on the phone

while you're also scrolling through your social media feed

and refreshing your inbox and watching the news on TV,

just try talking to them with your full attention.

One of the greatest gifts that we can give people

And finally, it's important also to recognize

that one of the back doors out of loneliness, if you will,

one of the great but hidden solutions to loneliness

It's by helping others that we actually take the focus off

of ourselves and place it on someone else.

It's how we rebuild a connection to someone

Because one of the great prices that we pay

we start to buy into the idea that maybe we're lonely

Maybe this is evidence of some personality flaw.

But when we serve other people, we're reminded

and that we have something of great value

to bring to them and to others around them.

where you predicted pretty much what is happening now.

Now, thanks to the world we live in, that has sprouted

a bunch of conspiracy theories, everything from Bill Gates

invented this virus to prove himself right

or he knew it was gonna happen and that's why he said it.

or was that a hypothetical that has now come true?

- Well, I didn't know specifically that it'd be coronavirus

and that it would hit in late 2019, but the goal of the talk

was to encourage governments to make the investments

and keep the case numbers very, very low.

And so sadly, this is not a case where I feel like,

Because we didn't use that time when it was clear

is the biggest threat to kill millions of people,

to be ready to ramp up a vaccine factory.

Some countries, our Foundation funded some work

but most of what was called for particularly

in a New England Journal of Medicine article I did that went

into way more specifics than I could in a short TED Talk,

and so that's why it's taking us a long time

to get our act together faced with this threat.

- Here's a question I have as an individual.

How is it that you as a non government knew this information

and knew that it needed to be acted on and governments

and organizations that are specifically tasked

with protecting people from this very thing

either didn't have the information or ignored it?

What do you think happened there because I know you interact

with governments, you talk to organizations like the CDC,

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