@Pete69 The vast majority of people in California, like everywhere else, are immediately impacted by downturns in the economy - it's ludicrous and callow to suggest that the millions of people who could never afford to own a spare house in the Palisades simply "don't care" about their businesses collapsing, their retirement savings evaporating, their children's educations being disrupted, their careers being derailed, or the very real possibility that they might lose their homes. And if you think everyone who isn't mega-wealthy in your state is a "socialist," you clearly haven't had an actual conversation with any of the real people doing the real work that your daily well-being depends on. Do you even have any friends? "Fox and Friends" doesn't count.
Yes, people are very worried about the economy, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Nobody wants to lose their jobs and face the stress of debt or the horrors of poverty, but people also don't want to be forced to work in conditions that might expose them to a disease that they might not survive (even you may very well have an undiagnosed condition that renders you more vulnerable than you think, so let's see how cocky you are when you get sick). In a country with as pitiful of a social safety net as the US, where even sick leave is a "benefit" and not a right, tens of millions of workers are facing the pandemic with the knowledge that they can't afford to miss a week of work to being sick. And that includes people that you will inevitably have to interact with directly. So unless you're OK with every service worker who has the misfortune to put up with you possibly being the one who gives you the Coronavirus because they were forced back to work, you're way out of your depth on this topic.
