The pandemic hit soon after I retired. I spent the first few months doing a lot of phone calls and zooms with my other retired friends, and that was nice, but most of these friendships involved doing things together and it seems like we sometimes ran out of things to talk about with the lockdown preventing all those fun outings.
Then I discovered the friendship-building benefits of studying a new language. I signed up for some online courses and that created a lot of opportunity for interaction with nice people.
Through those courses I've meet a few folks who are happy to also zoom one-on-one for more language conversation practice. And I've made some good new friends that way. And we always have plenty to talk about, because if you're learning a new language, suddenly "small talk" becomes absolutely fascinating!
I offer this as an idea that might help someone else who wants to develop a little more human interaction in their life while we're all still locked down.