Basically, Don't use a deficit model unless there is a real infrastructure in place. It's a community ill. From [[Source - DCMS Is Winging It on Student Loneliness]]: In the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/18/uk-government-launches-campaign-to-tackle-loneliness-at-universities) Katie Wright-Bevans, a lecturer in psychology at Keele University who has written about undergraduate loneliness, effectively accuses the initiative of victim blaming: > …==anything that places responsibility on the individual to connect with others, without any meaningful infrastructure supporting that connection, is dangerous== because it risks exacerbating existing loneliness and perpetuating a sense of blame… It’s frustrating when politicians come out with these platitudes and place responsibility on the individual to do something about what is ==fundamentally a community ill and not an individual ill==. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hap534fvc2h3x83eyfbjenmp)) - the need to deliberately foster environments that create social connection has very much not gone away ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hap53nfngpmvbtn3qbjbhdj9))