79% of unemployed or furloughed people support keeping the lockdowns going even at the expense of jobs--actually *higher than the general population*.

"Open up" has always been about small biz owners, not the workers whose bloody shirts they're waving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/12/2-big-warning-signs-trump-new-coronavirus-poll-signs-he-doesnt-seem-want-see/

I feel for every one of those business owners, and maybe they've got the right of the policy discussion. But stop claiming this is about their workers who want to work. It's not. It's about the bosses, who shouldn't claim to speak for their employees.

Also, drop the "elite" claim--this is literally about bosses with more money/power/social capital who want to end lockdowns, while workers with less money don't.

This may have something to do with the fact that employees are likely to be related to, or in close contact with, more "essential" low-wage workers who have died from this disease, while employers are more likely to know other affluent people who can work from home, and haven't.

There are still arguments in favor of opening up. But "Pointy-headed, out-of-touch elites are forcing these lockdowns on salt-of-the-earth ordinary workers who just want to work" is not. If we open up, it will because capital-owning elites trumped the desires of said workers.