Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter by by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morg

Loneliness can accelerate cognitive decline in older adults, and isolated individuals are twice
as likely to die prematurely as those with more robust social interactions. These effects start
early: Socially isolated children have significantly poorer health 20 years later, even after
controlling for other factors. All told, loneliness is as important a risk factor for early death as
obesity and smoking.
There you have proof from that one article alone four years before
2020 that those who have enforced lockdown, social distancing and
isolation knew what the effect would be and that is even more so
with professional psychologists that have been driving the policy
across the globe. We can go back even further to the years 2000 and
2003 and the start of a major study on the effects of isolation on
health by Dr Janine Gronewold and Professor Dirk M. Hermann at
the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, who analysed data on
4,316 people with an average age of 59 who were recruited for the
long-term research project. They found that socially isolated people
are more than 40 percent more likely to have a heart a ack, stroke,
or other major cardiovascular event and nearly 50 percent more
likely to die from any cause. Given the financial Armageddon
unleashed by lockdown we should note that the study found a
relationship between increased cardiovascular risk and lack of
financial support. A er excluding other factors social isolation was
still connected to a 44 percent increased risk of cardiovascular
problems and a 47 percent increased risk of death by any cause. Lack
of financial support was associated with a 30 percent increase in the
risk of cardiovascular health events. Dr Gronewold said it had been
known for some time that feeling lonely or lacking contact with close
friends and family can have an impact on physical health and the
study had shown that having strong social relationships is of high
importance for heart health. Gronewold said they didn’t understand
yet why people who are socially isolated have such poor health
outcomes, but this was obviously a worrying finding, particularly
during these times of prolonged social distancing. Well, it can be
explained on many levels. You only have to identify the point in the
body where people feel loneliness and missing people they are
parted from – it’s in the centre of the chest where they feel the ache
of loneliness and the ache of missing people. ‘My heart aches for