Welcome to the Coronavirus Class War
Those who have suffered the least financial harm are the most supportive of reopening businesses.
If you’re getting your information from a cursory consumption of the news, from conservative media, or from President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, it’s easy to form an impression of public opinion on social-distancing measures: The country is deeply split between Republicans, who want to reopen the country, and Democrats, who want to keep things closed. More specifically, it’s split between well-off cultural elites, who are happy to cool their heels in their well-appointed houses and do their white-collar jobs over Zoom or to cower behind face, and salt-of-the-earth blue-collar workers who have the courage and can-do spirit to go out and get their jobs done.
