That's unduly personal and crosses into IPD (Internet Psychiatric Diagnosis). Please don't do that here–the odds that it will land well with the other person are vastly smaller than you expect, no matter how helpful your intentions are.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

What works better is to share some of your own relevant personal experience, if you want to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Reading it back now, you're absolutely right. I'll strive to be better in the future.

> Just like every other human being you can socialise with the people around you (unless you live in the middle of the desert with nobody around, in which case I apologise)

Or, you know, if we’re in the middle of a global pandemic.

Sure, let me just pop down the pub.

Oh wait, everything is closed, because we're in a global pandemic.

Where should he socialize? Everything's closed and some have even curfews and rules against socializing anyone outside their household? What options does it leave to a lonely guy like op? Pretty much none.

I don’t think this is fair or helpful to OP. Isolation is not fun for a lot of people, myself among them.

Well right now you can't because of the virus..

I'm close to 100% disagreeing with you