One consequence of the lockdowns that many countries have introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is that people have become more vulnerable to loneliness. In this contribution, I argue that even if this does not render lockdowns unjustified, it is morally incumbent upon states to make reasonable efforts to protect their residents from loneliness for as long as their social confinement measures remain in place. Without attempting to provide an exhaustive list of ways in which this might be done, I identify four broad measures that I believe many, if not most, states ought to take. These require states to (i) help ensure that people have affordable access to the internet, as well as opportunities for learning how to use this medium so as that they can digitally connect to others; (ii) help people to have harmonious and rewarding intimate relationships; and try to make (iii) non-human companionship as well as (iv) various non-social solutions to loneliness widely available.

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国家有责任在锁定期间保护我们免受孤独感的影响。

许多国家为应对COVID-19大流行而采取的封锁措施的结果之一是，人们变得更容易受到孤独感的影响。在这项贡献中，我认为，即使这不会使封锁变得不合理，但在道义上，国家应尽其合理的努力来保护其居民免受孤独的困扰，只要他们的社会限制措施得以维持。在不尝试提供详尽的方法列表的情况下，我确定了四个广泛的措施，我相信许多国家（即使不是大多数）也应该采取这些措施。这些要求各州（i）帮助确保人们负担得起的互联网访问，以及学习如何使用该媒体的机会，以便他们可以数字方式与他人建立联系；（ii）帮助人们建立和谐和有益的亲密关系；并尝试使（iii）非人的陪伴以及（iv）广泛提供针对孤独的各种非社会解决方案。