Brook Turner's September 2020 cover story titled, 'When the loneliness epidemic met the coronavirus pandemic' looks at how society has slowly ignored the value of human connection. Brook is then joined in conversation by Sydney Morning Herald health editor Kate Aubusson and Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland to discuss what happens to a society addicted to smartphones, alienated by materialism, cynical about politics, and striving for aspirational ideals of success while remaining disconnected from other humans.

Discussion starts at 31:00. 

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