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I work with a lot of healthcare vendors outside the hospital. Some of them could not get authorizations, access to their orders like medical equipment, etc. Our “e fax” was down. All medical faxing. Fortunately, everyone was understanding and we made agreements to give patients what they needed for their health and all our vendors got authorizations from insurance after the fact… All but one dumb equipment company.
Since your hobby is gaming have you tried LAN events? If there are some you can go to, even afford to fly to, you can make friends IRL and keep them when you go back home. You know you have one thing in common with your potential new friends!
Or join Discord groups! Join more social games like MMORPGs? I don’t game anymore but think of my gaming friends fondly as I got to know many over the years and find out things about them in and out of games :)