Considering that’s the demographic that has highest morbidity and mortality. That demographic doesn’t HAVE to go to work every day, doesn’t HAVE small children underfoot usually, they are the ONE demographic that can stay home most of the time during this.
Better there than in an ICU bed.
I’m in the in-between age range 50-60... too young to retire, but old enough to be higher risk. So we still work, have teens who come and go, and many of us have elderly parents living with us.