Protocol, likely.
These are White House Staff Press Conferences on behalf of the Chinese Virus Taskforce. POTUS may or may not be there and may come and go.
It isn't a Presidential Address.
As this shakes out, who are the winners and losers?
It boils down to essential vs unessential. Essential people, businesses, sectors and services are going to figure out how to operate through this storm.
Non-essentials are going home, or shutting down. Potus is ensuring all wage-earners will be able to weather the storm, but that doesn't replace lost business profits.
Who owns the theme parks?
Who owns the stadiums?
Who owns the teams?
If it's closed, is it essential? Do we need it, or is it just rampant greed and gluttony?
Artifice upon artifice. All that is unneeded will fall away.
Utah earthquake of 5.7-magnitude rocks Salt Lake City, leaves tens of thousands without power
https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-earthquake-5-7-magnitude-salt-lake-city-power-outages
Check out these "blankets" for the "victims".