There is no undeniable way to mention this: American small businesses are dying. Small businesses in related sectors – retail, catering, travel, hospitality – can now be endangered species.
If you want to support them, if you would like to have a friend as big as your own small business, the most important thing you can do is simple: wear a mask.
Wear a mask. This is never a very political statement. It is a way to maximize the spread of coronavirus, reopen this counterattack and save lives and businesses, especially small business friends.
Just a few stats:
Yelp reported that 71,500 indexes on its sites have been permanently closed since March 1.
• 80% of independent restaurants aren’t sure they’ll survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly a component of all small businesses that are members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce have lost 100% of their sales or closed completely.
The true extent of the loss has probably not been known for some time, however, I’ve seen it up close watching my favorite puppy shop close after 38 years of activity. How can we save him from going to other small businesses?
Wear a mask.
If we expect a vaccine to save us, it may be too much for small businesses. Even if a vaccine is developed and tested in early 2021, it will take months to mass-produce, distribute and vaccinate enough people. Most small businesses don’t have the budget for that long.
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They are only small businesses on the main street (restaurants, shops, hairdressers, nurseries) at risk. When a small business closes, accountant clients and lawyers, graphic designers, janitors, and IT experts are gone. As small business staff lose their jobs, they spend less on dentists and doctors, on entertainment and sports equipment, on new electronic devices and cars.
Then please wear a mask.
Unfortunately, the executive has wasted that time. Other countries, such as the Germabig apple, have implemented national detection and tracking programs, allowing their economies, schools and sports to be safely reopened. But Trump’s leadership has provided no leadership, which brings us to our current state.
So, if we defeat the virus quickly, we prefer to take the fight into our own hands. We have to take a mask and put it on.
“If we can also get everyone to wear a mask now, I think for the next four, six or eight weeks we’ll also be able to control this epidemic,” said Robert Redfield, appointed through Trump as director of the Centers for Disease Control. Prevention
“We can almost any of the viruses and in any case we decide,” said Andy Slavitt, former director of Medicare and Medicaid for former President Barack Obama. Slavitt says we could be open to business until October (schools, sports, business) if we “throw away the kitchen sink” at COVID-19.
And the first step: wear a mask.
Experts agree on the importance of dressing up in a mask. Wearing a mask, maintaining social distance, avoiding giant groups: these measures save us from transmitting the virus to others.
Don’t you think he’s dressed in a mask and help to end this pandemic? Consider the consequences:
If the experts are and we all wear masks, what is the downside? We can be a little uncomfortable.
If the experts are right, and yet we do not use masks, what is the downside? Hundreds of thousands more small businesses will die; their owners and staff will lose their livelihoods; their communities will lose their strength and far on their tax base; and, inevitably and tragically, tens of thousands more Americans will die.
Wearing a mask is a small fee to pay, a small bet to save small businesses, save lives, save our economy. Make your component to save small businesses: use a mask.
Rhonda Abrams is the “Successful Business Plan: Secrets – Strategies”, the best-selling business plan representative of all time, which has just been launched in its seventh edition. Rhonda has been named “Top 30 Global Guru” for start-ups. Connect with Rhonda on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @RhondaAbrams. Subscribe to Rhonda’s Loose Business Recommendation newsletter at www.PlanningShop.com