Dang, I hate that you feel like you have to go into “hunker down and survive” mode.
Just about everyone I know feels exactly the opposite. Like a weight has been lifted.
My suggestion would be to turn off the television and don’t believe anything that the “news” media tells you to believe.
The people who pull up so close to the car ahead and won’t let you merge into the open lane, in traffic that is just about standing still, are the worse.
People get into their vehicles and behave in ways that they never would if they were face to face, like in a grocery car traffic jam inside...