In a 2026 national survey of over 40,000 college students, nearly 6 in 10 said they felt lonely sometimes or always. At the same time, federal time-use data show that the share of Americans who socialized in person with family, friends or others on an average day fell from 38% in 2015 to 30% in 2025.

Consider also “American Civic Friendship Survey. Disconnected: Friendship, Loneliness, and Civic Life in America – A Report of the 2025 American Civic Friendship Survey.

Nearly half of Americans report having two or fewer close friends, including 11% who say they have no close friends at all. Related, making new friends has become increasingly difficult. More than one-third of Americans say it is difficult to make friends where they live, and nearly one in five has not made a new friend within the past three years.

The Coddling article describes a course being offered at Coastal Carolina University. An excerpt:

In this course, students examine how an initial exchange can develop into friendship through repeated contact and shared time, and why many potential connections never progress into a lasting friendship.

They consider how friends help shape identity and memory, whether old friends are owed continued loyalty after their lives diverge and whether a

Public health officials were not the only people with medical training who had something to say about these shots and reproduction. Some doctors and researchers noticed that things didn’t always add up regarding the COVID injections and whether they caused miscarriages or stillborns. Most of these people have been ignored and some lost their professional positions. I cannot vouch for their conclusions, but readers deserve to know what these health care professionals have claimed and to also notice that the medical establishment has made little to no effort to find out whether these concerns about the COVID vax were legitimate.

Dr. James Thorp is a board-certified OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist with more than 40 years in practice, including several years managing high-risk pregnancies here in St. Louis. He says that after the shots were recommended in pregnancy, he saw a sharp rise in miscarriages, stillbirths and other complications, and that his colleagues would not acknowledge this problem. He was terminated from his position. He tells the story in a 2025 book, Sacrifice, written with journalist Celia Farber.

His central argument is that pregnant women and unborn babies have long been the most protected patients in medicine. When the CDC recommended these shots in pregnancy, the public heard that the product was “safe and effective.” It was neither, as we …

[W]hen fathers were parenting, it was depicted as humorously foolish in just over 50% of the relevant scenes in the 2000s and 2010s, compared with 18% in the 1980s and 31% in the 1990s sitcoms.

This screen image of fathers does not match up to the modern expansive roles many fathers have taken on:

National polls by Pew Research Center show that from 1965 to 2016, the amount of time fathers reported spending on care for their children nearly tripled. These days, dads constitute 17% of all stay-at-home parents, up from 10% in 1989. Today, fathers are just as likely as mothers to say that being a parent is “extremely important to their identity.” They are also just as likely to describe parenting as rewarding.

I asked Grok to tell me how modern movies and TV compared to movies and TV when I grew up (in the 60s to the 80s) with regard to disappearance of functional families from TV and Movies. It appears that I was on to something here:

Grok:

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If routine childhood vaccine injures your child, you cannot go straight to a jury, but you can sue in federal “vaccine court.” A judicial officer hears your case and you can appeal. The program pays your lawyer, and over the last decade it compensated about 77% of the petitions it decided.

But if you are injured by a Covid shot, you have none of these options.

Under the PREP Act, the manufacturers and the people who administered the shots are immune from suit, and that protection runs through the end of 2029. In place of a courtroom, Congress gave you the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, or CICP. Here is what that program offers:

• No judge and no jury. Employees of the Department of Health and Human Services decide your claim. If they deny it, you may ask the agency to reconsider, but no court can review the decision.
• One year to file. HRSA reports that 2,711 Covid claims were denied for missing that deadline.
• No lawyer paid for. The program does not pay attorney fees, so most people go it alone.
• Nothing for pain and suffering. The program covers

That question is what provoked me to write this article. I have now read the officials’ own text messages, the regulators’ own reports and the CDC’s own published study, and my answer is no. Not because the vaccine has been definitively shown to cause miscarriages. That is still an open question. My answer is no because, at the time public health officials offered many public reassurances, the people giving these did not have any such evidence and they openly admitted this to each other in private.

Public health officials were making potentially life-changing medical claims that could not be backed up when they were made. That is a bizarre thing to find, because the people who made them:

• (A) were highly trained professionals at the very top of this field;
• (B) had a duty to tell us the truth about what they knew and what they did not know; and
• (C) had a duty to do no harm.

This article substantiates A and B. The jury is still out on C. I have linked the factual statements below to their sources so you can check them yourself.

What I Am Not Claiming

I am a lawyer, not a physician. I am not claiming that COVID vaccines caused miscarriages or …