I am gutted for every single bar owner who has had to shut down for nearly a year, but go through their life's savings paying rent, liquor taxes and business insurance anyway.

I am convinced that the way this pandemic has been handled was designed to liquidate small businesses

Commercial rent should have been cancelled for businesses that were forced to stay closed for health reasons.

The city should have been honest with businesses about how long the shutdown would be, so they could get out while they still had savings left.

I'm convinced that the way the US handled the pandemic was designed in part to liquidate small businesses and small property owners in major cities, and so pave the way for Blackrock and Amazon

There are so many ways that cities like New York could have supported small businesses while doing a shutdown. Commercial rent stabilization. Commercial eviction moratorium. Cancel rent for effected industries. Hire restaurants provide food for folks who can't afford it...

Instead, our cruel idiot governing class expected small business owners in industries with razor-thin profit margins to have a year's expenses saved up... somehow.