The solution to this is super simple. Offer 600+n where n increases until they agree to come back. Don’t have a viable business at those labor costs? Bummer.
If you want people to stay home to not exacerbate a pandemic, you pay them to stay home.
What makes it any safer today than it was a month ago, when we were seeing exponential growth all over the country?
Most workplaces do not allow social distancing. Many minimum wage employees take transit to work, which does not allow social distancing. Many of them would be completely ruined by medical bills if they catch COVID-19 - even if they don't need to be hospitalized. A single doctor's visit can run you hundreds of dollars in this country. Many of them live with vulnerable people, who would die, if they catch it. Many of them are currently taking care of children.
Are you ready to pay for their medical bills? Their transportation? For rebuilding their workplaces in a manner that allows social distancing? Are you going to watch their child while they are at work?
If not, don't be in such a hurry to send them back to work.
Nope and that's why the $600/week increase is already guaranteed to stay through at least July.
Politicans can choose if they want to re-open, but they don't get to declare a re-opening safe. They aren't qualified to do that. Just because the Kremlin said that there was no radiation risk at Chernobyl didn't make it true.
If I take my car to a mechanic, and he tells me that my brakes aren't working, I can drive away without choosing to pay for repairs. But I can't go around telling people that my brakes are fine.
I don't think the person you've responded to is implying what you seem to think.