“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).

Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.

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    21 hours ago

    Catastrophizing is a thing, but so is pattern recognition. In the context of current events, your fears are not only rational, but they may turn out to be critical to your survival if it prompts you to start planning for the train wreck headed our way.

    My personal recommendation: if you don’t have a current passport, start the process like NOW. Being able to step out of the path of the aforementioned train if needed is a huge peace of mind.