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I'm reminded of the years I spent working on electronics for the tuna fleet. Boats were generally in 3 categories. The repurposed banana boats had a 400 ton capacity. A good family business. The big corporate boats are 1200 tons. The huge boats were 2200 tons and often carried an airplane or helicopter for scouting. The 2200 ton boat was too big. The early part of the catch would start to rot before the boat could be filled. 400 ton boats are rapidly filled and turned around. A bit of time wasted on frequent returns to unload and resume fishing. 1200 tons allowed a long enough trip to fill before rotting and reduced time lost to frequent returns for unloading.

What happened to the 2200 ton boats? A series of "unfortunate" accidents resulted in sinking and insurance payoffs. The 1200 and 400 ton boats left San Diego for New Zealand where regulations were less strict.

I left the marine electronics maintenance world in May 1980 for an indoor engineering job at PacBell. My former company was purchased by one of the shipyards and became a wholly owned maintenance shop for the yard. It was purchased mostly for all of the dealership licenses for important marine electronics.

Returning to the thread topic, I suspect many businesses will succumb to loss of business caused by the vaxx only customer regulations. Dead and disabled people spend less. As you alluded, a failing business model sometimes falls victim to "unfortunate" events.