The shelter-in-place order for California may not give you extra writing time. You may be so busy finding work-arounds for your normal duties that you don’t have energy for your stories. As a writer, however, this is what you’ve trained for. Flex those writing muscles and create a file for future work by watching life unfold around you.
I’ve always heard that adversity doesn’t make character, it reveals it. Well, we’re having all sorts of characters revealed to us now! Seeing how good people behave badly under stress can inform your protagonist. Watching the greedy drop their false smiles can help you write a more convincing villain. Observing the small acts of kindness in your family or your neighborhood can bring layers of complexity to your secondary characters.
This is also a good time to expand your world-building skills. Writing a story set in a small town during war? Take note of how quiet the streets are without teenagers driving around or having parties. Jot down the number of times you had to go to the grocery for what were once common items, and you’ll have a glimmer of an idea of what life was like during rationing. Examine the dread you experience when you hear a loved one cough, and imagine if that were cannon fire or the drone of incoming bombers.
If you don’t even have the energy for this, save the news articles until you do. They will have the information you need to bring up those emotions again when you can deal with them in a creative way.