Ghost Towns Are Coming Back To America As Liberals Use The 'Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste' Playbook To Control Americans
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
In 2020 when state leaders arbitrarily decided to deem certain businesses as "non-essential," despite those companies being very essential to the livelihood of the owners and employees, it was hard to gauge the extent of the damage being done.
A year later and we see the data, reported by multiple sources, and the numbers are chilling.
In April 2020, the National Academy of Sciences conducted a survey in an attempt to provide insight to the economic ramifications of the COVID responses by state leadership and its effects on small businesses.
The results suggest that the pandemic had already caused massive dislocation among small businesses just several weeks after its onset and prior to the availability of government aid through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Across the full sample, 43% of businesses had temporarily closed, and nearly all of these closures were due to COVID-19. Respondents that had temporarily closed largely pointed to reductions in demand and employee health concerns as the reasons for closure, with disruptions in the supply chain being less of a factor. On average, the businesses reported having reduced their active employment by 39% since January. The decline was particularly sharp in the Mid-Atlantic region (which includes New York City), where 54% of firms were closed and employment was down by 47%. Impacts also varied across industries, with retail, arts and entertainment, personal services, food services, and hospitality businesses all reporting employment declines exceeding 50%; in contrast, finance, professional services, and real estate-related businesses experienced less disruption, as these industries were better able to move to remote production.
That was at the start of the COVID lockdowns, with a president that was not decreeing national mandates, whether it be mask mandates of vaccine mandates of vaccine passport (show us your papers).
By July 2020, the numbers started trickling in on businesses bankruptcies, just in the first few months of the lockdowns.
Jump forward to April 2021, and we see that at least 200,000 'extra' closures had occurred in the first year, and by June 2021, we started seeing percentage estimates.
As of this week, the Tracker showed there were 37.5% fewer small businesses open nationwide compared with January 2020, two months before the pandemic hit the United States. In California, the share of small businesses decreased 39.1% over this period.
In August 2021, an ANP reader and regular commenter, Jan, described what she was seeing in her neighborhood, which takes the percentages and data reported on so casually and gives it a human face.
Pulled into a parking lot I haven't been to in awhile. Normally it's packed. There were no cars. I thought "what's going on?". I look around and all the business were gone! It was a group of small stores and restaurants. All gone! Empty! So the shut down of non essential killed them. While big box stores and liquor stores stayed open. I'm sickened.
These are not just "numbers," they are human lives, affected negatively because of state/city leaders deciding to shut down an entire state or city, leaving only businesses they deemed as "essential" to stay open for businesses.
They quite literally crippled their own economy, cost millions of jobs, sent tens of thousands of extra families to the food banks for the first time in their lives, because they could no longer feed themselves with no money coming in.
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