1. Even if every business in America opened tomorrow, how many would have enough customers to stay open?
2. The employer-employee relationship has almost certainly been permanently damaged as a result of this idiocy. You’re going to have employees staying home sick for even the tiniest signs of illness, and employers have no real recourse to deal with that. I expect productivity to plummet as a result of this in many industries.
Good points, another one I see is our legal system. Say a restaurant or hair salon open back up and a customer or one his family members get the virus two weeks later, a lawsuit will may follow. Multiply this scenario by millions I can’t even think of and this spells our doom as a Country. This fear of legal repercussions is the elephant in the room that is not being discussed by anyone.
Sadly, all true.
You are so right. It is already happening at my company. We had 260 employees. We terminated, laid-off, and furloughed half of them. The rest got pay cuts and hours cuts. The family (owners) are only looking out for themselves and the remaining employees are doing the very least possible without getting noticed.
What a debacle.
That's it. Consumer confidence is now gone. For months - if not years.
Businesses just have to adopt an older model:
Going out of business sale.
We’ve got a furniture store on an access road to a major North/South freeway that’s been going out of business for at least 15 years.
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