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The Republicans feel that inhibiting the federal government's ability to prevent people from dying will help their election chances. It's as simple as that.
It worked with the border.
I'm not saying it won't work. I'm sure it will in fact.
It's even simpler than that. We're four weeks to the election, everyone in the house of reps is busy campaigning for reelection. Nobody wants to go to DC and work, letting the campaign challengers run around your district unopposed.
And what would be the point if they did come back? Johnson couldn't get his party to pass a continuing resolution to find the government Republican sweeteners attached (voter id law). How the fuck is he going to get his party on board for "government handouts" without the freedom caucus making some asinine demand that tanks the whole thing. Johnson certainly doesn't want to remind voters of the shit show of distinction that is the Republican controlled House weeks before an election.
Pull all your vulnerable members off the campaign trail in the final weeks so that you can put on a fuck fuck circus generating daily headlines about how Republicans can't govern? Fat fucking chance.
And if Biden calls a special session, Republicans are going to say it's political to make them look bad, cause they can't govern.