[Black Agnes]

You realize that even when things ‘open back up’, there will still be a dearth of shoppers?

Sweden is open but many businesses there are on the verge of bankruptcy because people simply aren’t ‘getting out and about’ anymore.

[Myrddin]

You realize that even when things ‘open back up’, there will still be a dearth of shoppers?

The layoffs and furloughs leave lots of unemployed with little disposable income. It takes income to turn demand into purchases.

[mountainfolk]

On the bright side, a dearth of shoppers is better than none. Sweden is not the United States, fewer people, fewer problems. US citizens are already rebelling about the excess measures of restrictions that simply are not the same as NY or Calif or other liberal environments who have taken in illegal immigrants for them to support, as well as standing in the way of any restrictions to building a barrier wall. America will return to normal as much as they want. There will be no govt supervised new normal tolerated along with new vote by mail nonsense that the commie democrat party is trying to slip in with virus legislation.