thank you for taking the time to add this -- in the first six months of covid-19, there were some US gov'ies that took the small business story very seriously, and conducted direct, public surveys and published those numbers. The trends now, two years later, are still hidden from even intelligent people here at YNews, since the mainstream news won't print stories that refer to it, for fear of causing panics(?); and that ridiculous, cynical number called unemployment just floats along in the news every day.

I have done some initial quantitative analysis on the raw survey responses, but not gone further, since you know, daily troubles. The small business situation is deeply changed in the last two years, and this is not over at all.