Post-pandemic loneliness

One of the first recorded uses of the word "lonely" was in William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, "Though I go alone, like a lonely dragon..."
As the last survivor of a pandemic, you may quickly start to feel pretty lonely. Loneliness is a feeling in which people experience a strong sense of emptiness and solitude, being unwanted and unimportant. Other words (synonyms) for loneliness are: solitude, reclusion, aloneness, seclusion, loneliness, separation, forlornness, lonesomeness, secludedness, solitariness, isolation and reclusiveness, showing that linguistically the topic is taken seriously. Loneliness can cause feelings of social inadequacy, and a lonely person may become convinced there is something wrong with him/herself, and that no one understands their situation - imagine a post-pandemic world where nobody has survived! A lonely person will lose confidence and will be reluctant to change, or scared to try new things for fear of worsening that situation. In extreme cases, this may lead to a state of clinical depression: urgently requiring medical treatment. In world with no physicians, you may then find yourself up shit creek without a paddle...