Risking one's life for pitiful pay working outside in a pandemic is one of the most crazy things people could do. So, they are avoiding it as much as possible.

What's funny is how all those 'free market' fans turned to saying 'government should force people to go back to work' when the market forced them to pay their employees more as a result of supply and demand.

Apparently, all their talk of 'free market' were lies. They only liked it when they benefited from it.