I’ve wondered how people with children managed if they couldn’t work from home (and even if they did, how do you work when you should be supervising the kid on the computer). The school won’t take the children, grandparents might not be keen to have them because of the Wu Flu and employers have limited resources and patience.
I scan the news but never found too much on this topic. Maybe one mention for every hundred articles about teachers wanting to stay home and get paid.
At first, most people just went on unemployment.
I know of many who did so.
The docs just torpedoed over half the work force, and from what my wife has told me even the teachers are dropping out.