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If threats to economic well being counted as a bodily threat, US labor laws would look very different than they do today.

Then you can make the same argument for opening up, since a business will become insolvent if left closed indefinitely and we're back into the same situation (unemployment).

the jobs ends if you can’t open. the job ends if you refuse to go to work too. same result either way, which is why many of these businesses are not as awful as they seem.

Tesla is not going to have to permanently close that plant due to a few months of shutdown. That is like saying if the Bay Area had another 1989 magnitude earthquake, Tesla would go out of business.

Tesla is not even reasonably similar to many businesses that are truly at risk of never opening again. And to make this comparison is insulting to the hardworking business owners and employees that are in industries that will see massive amounts of bankruptcies in the coming year.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t open.

But forcing your employees to come to work when it’s illegal to do so was what we were talking about.