Well, he was an artist. Some people might consider that "non-essential." I don't, but some might.

Would you risk your health and well-being by braving a cloud of pesticides while spend dawn to dusk seven days a week harvesting apples, grapes, asparagus, et al, while getting paid something like two-bits for every bushel basket you can fill?

Do you eat, apples, grapes, asparagus?

Who will harvest this stuff if Hispanic immigrants either won't do it or are not allowed to do it? Nobody I know.

Swabbing out toilets in public rest rooms for minimum wage? Sometimes way less than minimum wage?

Would you?

Don Firth