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Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by tathougies on Friday April 03, 2020 @07:01PM (#22774767)
I don't think restaurant demand was cratering before coronavirus? Coronavirus will at some point not be so important, either because it will be eradicated (unlikely) or because we'll stop caring (more likely), and treat it like we treated polio in the 50s, which didn't cause economic disruptions the like of which we see today.
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Re:Bank of America: 58,000 small businesses ask for $6B in l... by majormajor on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:22PM (#22796328)
It wasn't cratering before the coronavirus, it was cratering before the official response. Same with toilet paper hoarding.

So claims that we can "stop the shutdown" and "reopen" are naive.

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