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Originally Posted by RRxtar
To the other point tho. What do we do now that cerb and ceba have run out and we spent $500billion to get us to now? Federal budget update expected next Monday. Will be interesting..
Manitoba and Ontario are forcing businesses to close, literally telling businesses they are not allowed to be open. Projections are 160,000 small businesses will close at the current rate, not factoring things getting worse.
Imagine being Joe's lighting store being told to close, even tho you may see 5 customers per day. Being forced to close, meaning forced to lose your livelihood, and probably ruin your family financially, with no help from the government who closed your doors. Instead now people can still go to home depot to buy the same light bulb, in a store that has 1000 other people pass thru it in a day. Which one is more likely to contribute to an outbreak? For a government that says they're here to help the middle class, they sure are fucking the middle class and helping big corporations thru this pandemic.
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You mean, doing what people have been pretty much begging for?
Even Bonnie said today the vast majority of deaths have been in care homes. The graph from BCCDC has very clear data as to who is impacted most seriously.
Telling small business as in your example that they have to shut even though everyone who comes and goes follows protocol and wears masks, socially distances etc. Is completely fucked.
It’s not “buT tHe EcOnOmy!!!” It’s literally stripping any and all ability for small business owners to survive period. And then the fall-out from that. Can’t pay a mortgage, can’t provide for a family, the stress and hardships that come from that
But hey, joe at joes lighting is a healthy 40 year old so you better punish him with all the force the government can muster.
The rent subsidy program is also an absolute joke and I feel bad for anyone who thought they were gonna get a break with it. Under both the previous one and this current one the responsibility of getting a supplement on your rent is held up with the land lord, if your landlord doesn’t apply you get nothing. You think some shitty office building owner is going to take the time to do that? Not a chance in hell. My wife’s company is already victim to this as is 3 other small business owners we know who the landlord basically said take a hike
