I'm just confused...
These are the businesses that are remaining open because they're [rightly] considered "essential infrastructure".
And they're closing because of outbreaks and deaths amongst their workers.
And this is an argument to re-open the rest of the economy?
I didn't read anything about deaths. It didn't even really say anything about people feeling sick. We already know that 50% or more of people that test positive have no symptoms at all.
I point this out, because a neighbor who works as the business manager for a machine shop, was forced to close down his entire shop, when one of the workers tested positive. That worker had mild symptoms, got tested, and tested positive. So the corporate office shut down the entire shop, and had several other employees tested, and those results are still pending. IF they come back negative, they might be allowed to reopen. If they come back positive, then the shop will remain closed for several more weeks, even though only one person ever felt any symptoms at all, and is now recovering and feeling fine.
Point being, this is something we're doing to ourselves, by choice. At the micro level, we're shutting down entire shops of people that feel fine, because one person felt sick. Thousands of man-hours of lost productivity, because this one guy had a fairly mild case, and is already feeling better.
At the macro level, we're shutting down entire industries, with billions of man-hours of lost productivity. And we're doing this by our own choices.