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Misaddressed email in the age of COVID-19
Dec. 15th, 2020 11:27 amYou may know the XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/1279/ "Reverse Identity Theft".
That's me. I get dozens of misaddressed emails a day. Most of them are harmless: there's some guy in England who really likes sports bikes and spends a lot of money on them. Someone keeps buying gas and I get her receipts.
Occasionally there has been family drama that I have been inadvertently witness to.
But today. Oh boy.
I got an email with a form that the recipient was to sign and return ASAP. It was a form someone's daughter was signing on behalf of her mother, to move her to palliative hospice care. The daughter had to sign because the mother was unresponsive.
I wrote back and strongly suggested they find another means of contact so they could find the daughter's actual email address.
This has torn me up emotionally, way more than I expected. I'm sure most of it is my anxiety about my parents and COVID-19.
Tell your loved ones that you love them.
That's me. I get dozens of misaddressed emails a day. Most of them are harmless: there's some guy in England who really likes sports bikes and spends a lot of money on them. Someone keeps buying gas and I get her receipts.
Occasionally there has been family drama that I have been inadvertently witness to.
But today. Oh boy.
I got an email with a form that the recipient was to sign and return ASAP. It was a form someone's daughter was signing on behalf of her mother, to move her to palliative hospice care. The daughter had to sign because the mother was unresponsive.
I wrote back and strongly suggested they find another means of contact so they could find the daughter's actual email address.
This has torn me up emotionally, way more than I expected. I'm sure most of it is my anxiety about my parents and COVID-19.
Tell your loved ones that you love them.
