This is true in Sacramento, for sure. There are many tall buildings in Sac, most of which belong to one or another state agency. The people that work in those buildings get paid to "work from home". They haven't lost a cent, and some school employees are getting hazard pay when they actually report to physical work.
I drove by the Bee building a few days ago, and I saw a lot with hundreds of newspaper machines behind a locked gate. They probably lost a lot of money on those, and also from not selling the papers out of them. The Starbucks and Peet's coffee shops, and the supermarket checkout, are the places where you go to get a newspaper now. Al the Starbucks are drive through right now. I wonder how many people are driving up asking for an extra hot soy latte, a ham panninni and a Sacramento Bee?
Is this wrong? I sit down at the coffee shop and take a newspaper to read. Then after my cup is empty, I put the paper back on the rack and leave