“You’re exactly right. These morons write these articles as if every business establishment in the country can open and be operating at full capacity as quickly as they were shut down. As I’ve said here on FR many times in the last few weeks: IT’S TOO LATE, FOLKS.”
You’re hysterical. Of course the businesses will return but not on any timetable and not all uniformly. It will not take long before it is known by even the most rabid pearl clutchers how unnecessary and wrong headed the total sht down was. People will forget, they always have and they always will.
The greater harm will prove to be the lessening of credibility of those who promulgated this hoax.
Oh, sure -- maybe for some of them. But anyone who thinks this isn't going to devastate many, many businesses is delusional.
Case in point ...
Farms can operate. Food producers can operate. If the restaurants that buy from the food producers aren't open, how much business can they do (hence the stories you're reading about farmers destroying their commodities because they can't sell them).
The vendor I use for my printing is closed. I am open (I never closed, even though I'm supposedly a "non-essential" business). I need a print job done. If I can't get the printing job done professionally I'm either going to do it myself or have it done out of state and shipped here via FedEx or UPS. Do you think that printing business is going to have a full base of customers when it is permitted to open?
Opening businesses "not all uniformly" ignores the essential relationships between different types of businesses. A governor whose staff sits down and identifies "essential" and "non-essential" businesses using a NAICS industry code is an ignoramus, and is a major threat to the well-being of the constituents in that state.