Maybe A Thing

Yeah, you heard that right.  While there are not many, we can learn a few things from the bad guys of the world.  I'm sure you've gotten a call similar to the following recently: Hi. This is Susie calling with the vehicle service department about your car's extended warranty. It's gotten so common that it's become a joke to talk about car warranties (even though it's a real thing) and even Planet Money covered it on a recent podcast.  I was listening to that exact podcast when they pointed out that these scams really do manage to convince people to share their personal info at worst, and get a terrible deal on extending their car's warranty at best.  While I could kind of see it happening , I also was a little surprised at it's success, but maybe it's because I grew up as a child of the 90's alongside all the Nigerian Princes of the world trying to give their money away and wary of random phone calls from numbers with no caller ID.   One comment ...

I've been sending texts and emails the past week and it felt weird to not address the situation happening around us.  But I felt a little weird the first few messages because my intuition for some reason was to sign off with a "stay safe" signature.  Stay safe, from what??   The current environment makes it feel like that's the right thing to say, though, with people hoarding toilet paper, and buying extreme amounts of food I know they can't finish 1 , as if every biblical plague was about to happen.  But that's not the case.  I know that there's not going to be a  food shortage , I know we're not going to run out of toilet paper (since unless you use it, what's the use in getting more).  There are a lot of things I know, yet with the way everyone's behaving, I have also felt the fear of some imminent danger: the unknown.  So when I say "stay safe", who or what was I implying we stay safe from?  Each other?  I think I'll start l...