Personally, I joked it off for the first day. I processed through the "anyone can die at any time for no reason" and eventually ended up especially alert at all times, ready to run at any moment. I watch people's hands constantly. You're on the bus and reach in your pocket for your phone? I watch your knuckles until it's out.

I think Covid riots shifted me from being 'alert' to a more actively 'on guard'. I conceal carry without a permit in gun free zones and when you're on the bus digging in your pocket for your phone my thumb is on the hammer waiting for justification to blast.

Yeah, I turned fully rotten because of it. I don't know how much I can say about the way other people reacted.