6 Months Emergency Fund?

If you had taken a Personal Finance class you would have learned you should save 6 months worth of cash to cover bills and rent for that time period. No one thinks they will be out of work for 6 months or longer; do they? People are wildly unprepared for the last year and these upcoming months due to the lockdown of the pandemic. The shutdown of the economic system should never have lasted this long! People have to live and food, clothing and shelter are the basic needs to survival! They need to make income so they can provide these things. In order for quality of life sometimes we just may need to take our chances with exposure to COVID19. Yesterday marked a year since the shutdown in Washington State!