I think that California and very soon the whole of US would need to shift to survival of the fittest mode. The US population cannot survive multiple weeks witho

I think that California and very soon the whole of US would need to shift to survival of the fittest mode. The US population cannot survive multiple weeks without a paycheck. Any unemployment that is received is just enough to put food on the table but not pay rent. Some statistics on lower wage workers * 152 Million people worked in US in Feb 2020 * 16 Million of those in retail (A huge majority of them would be unemployed ~50%) * 17 Million people worked in Leisure and Hospitality (If bars/restaurants/movie theaters/theme parks/casinos stay closed around 80% of them are unemployed * 3 Million people work in educational services . With schools and colleges closing a majority of them are unemployed. Source of data https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm * You can only keep things shutdown until people are either begging on the streets or rioting