Rosa you may be fine not going to these businesses, but many of them would prefer to open. Some will have to permanently close, wiping out the lifetime savings people invested in them. Something like a third of restaurants may never recover. The jobs in them will not come back.

As you are retired I am assuming you are over 60 so I am glad you are being cautious. You should feel under no obligation to go to businesses, but others should be free to do so.

Small local businesses are being disproportionately hurt. A future in which most new jobs are as delivery drivers for Amazon is not rosy.