‘Loneliness is actually a really big epidemic,’ Susan Wheeldon recently announced to a gathered audience of creative entrepreneurs and technologists, in Sydney. ‘The UK actually has just announced its first ever Minister for Loneliness,’ she continued.
Over COVID we heard a lot about the ability for arts and culture to keep people connected, despite lockdowns. Wheeldon, who is a Director at Airbnb, says our ‘neediness’ for connection, however, is not exclusive to a pandemic, and post-pandemic, psyche.
