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Well it probably depends on what state you are in as well, Washington for instance allows you to not go to work if there is a stay at home order and still get unemployment (unless you were working a mandatory job etc).

That pretty much ends at the end of July though.

Up until that point you have the option of not going to work if you believe it's too risky and still getting unemployment, which sadly is more than most people make with a full time job.

I'm a bit on the fence on this issue to be honest, I think the way they set up unemployment is waked, but it ends in 4 weeks (and may require you to start actively looking for work staring this week).

That being said, currently the number of new virus cases per day are higher then they have ever been in the US (also higher then they have been anywhere else), so this isn't really a GREAT time to be going back to work if you can avoid it.

The real question is, will people who don't need to work for the near future, go back to work, or start working, if there is a high risk they will get sick if they do, and should they even be expected to take that risk?

Part of the big problem is that many people have been getting much more then they normally make in unemployment for months, and currently have enough to pay their living expenses for many more months because of that. In some cases people were getting over 1k a week, and are only spending 1k total a month lol.

That is literally enough for them to live off for years without working at this point (saying they started getting benefits at the start of Feb that is 20k+ they recieved by now.

Saying they spend 5k of that, they would still at this point have 15k left over for future expenses, and have at least 4 more weeks of benefits coming in so 18k after spending 1k this month). That is enough for those who are frugal (generally those people making near minimum wage most places or about 45% of the population), to live off what they have saved for the next year and a half.

Convincing them to go to work while they are not safe, and don't need the money, is going to be hard.

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