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None of this is theoretical to Rodney Shelton, 40, a janitor who was furloughed from an Ohio steel mill.

“I want to be safe,” Mr. Shelton said. He drives his 72-year-old father to dialysis appointments three mornings a week, and cannot stand the thought of unwittingly bringing the virus along on those car rides. “At the same time,” he said, “the bills and stuff are still coming. I’ve got to get the money rolling.”

Like Ms. Head, Mr. Shelton has been unable to reach an unemployment agent. And like her, he is unsure how much longer he can go without some money coming in. He wants to go to work. But if he is invited back to the mill, how could he trust it to be sanitized? After all, he has not been cleaning it.

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Bulent Bekcioglu prepared his shop for reopening in Columbus on Thursday. Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

“I don’t know,” he said. “It’s tough, right?”