Millions of Americans are struggling through life with few people they can trust for personal and professional help, a disconnect that raises a barrier to recovery from the social, emotional and economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic
The 72-year-old widow, who suffers from vision loss and diabetes and lives far from any relatives, barely left her house in Champion, Mich., this last year, for fear of contracting the coronavirus. Finally vaccinated, she was looking forward to venturing out when her beloved service dog died last month.
“I feel like I’m in a prison most of the time, and once in a while I get to go out,” said Glidden, whose adult children live in California and Hawaii, where she was born and raised.
The isolation is more acute among Black and Latino Americans. Thirty-eight percent of Black adults and 35% of Latino adults said they had only one or no trusted person to help navigate their work lives, compared with 26% of white adults. In their personal lives, 30% of Latino adults and 25% of Black adults said they have one or no trusted people, while 14% of white adults said the same.
The General Social Survey, a national representative survey conducted by NORC since 1972, suggests that the number of people Americans feel they can trust had declined by the early 2000s, compared with two decades earlier, although there isabout the extent of this isolation or its causes. The rise of social media has added another layer of debate, as experts explore whether it broadens networks or lures people in isolating echo chambers.
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