I can tell one how to lose money.
Start a business. Then do real good and hire employees, buy some machinery and software. Then have the government shut down the industry for the sake of a Chinese virus. Then, try to keep the doors open and be required to pay employees still, as required by state law, and pay the rent on the lease. Then stick through it after all the employees are let go and the customers out of business. Restructure to stay above water through a degenerate child sniffing democrat administration who did everything in his power to destroy small manufacturing businesses.
Sounds like a first-person narrative there.
Of course, a LOT depends on where you live. Here in Idaho, life went on pretty much as normal. In the end, our results (cases, hospitalizations, ICU occupancy, deaths, et) were the same as the most draconian states. Customer traffic declined because people were scared and some of our favorite restaurants closed for good. But it wasn’t the heavy hand of state government. It WAS the heavy hand of the federal government causing fear.