Not every small business owner is a pauper either. Some are sitting on huge piles of cash and other wealth while at the same time laying off staff. Be careful who you have sympathy for.
Paying employees to sit at home after the government shuts your business down as non-essential is a sure-fire way to ensure that those employees won’t have a job to go back to when this madness ends.
Will you enforce this at gunpoint?
Are you a Tin Pot Dictator or do you just play one on Free Republic?