 A lot of people are still feeling loneliness. The Gallup poll shows one in five people worldwide felt loneliness the day before they were polled. And senior researcher Andrew Dugan says they were even more likely to also feel sadness. Our research here, but also other research, which has pointed to signs of loneliness because of perhaps the COVID pandemic and the lockdown. Of course, there are theories about social media, maybe making people somewhat less likely to actually socialize in real life.