Considering Galup's "World Happiness Report," "The U$.$S$.$ Surgeon General's Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community' and the movie The Economics of Happiness $(2011)$ explain the proposed atternative approach to measure development $($presented in the movie$)$ and describe how this new approach would affect different cultures, comparing if with the Happiness Report and the current epidemic and isolations, described by the Surgeon General. In the end, let us know whether you think that happiness should be included as one more measure of human development in the United States and the world.