[Mick]

There's no reason to think that the SIP orders are what is causing the problem. At best they're a minor contribution while preventing a lot of needless pain by keeping the ~10-20% of people (who aren't enough to sustain any kind of business) from becoming superspreaders.

Successful business owners aren't idiots, as a general rule.  It was blindingly simple to understand the economic hit that SiP would inflict upon the economy, so the business owners acted long before the economic devastation -- they didn't wait until after it occurred.  70% of the economy is driven by consumers, and SiP would mean that consumers were largely held out to dry. This meant that business owners had to make hard decisions in advance.  That included extending payables, accelerating collections efforts, cutting budgets, cutting salaries, cutting headcount.  I started discussing furloughs with our CEO in early March, which meant he was considering it long before that.  So the economic hit came in advance of the SiP.  The expectations driven by the SiP that everyone knew was coming drove the furlough decisions.  

And now, the average consumer and small business owner understands the nature of the economic devastation will mean ruin for them. Hence the protests, the creeping fear of the bleak future, the absolute knowledge that if we don't get back to work right now, they could lose everything. Joke's on them of course, we're long past the point of no return. And so you have the Elite judge scolding the Deplorable salon owner, and the judge demands an apology for the salon owner trying to feed her family.

More to the point, what is dawning on business owners now is that the economic devastation wreaked by SiP will have a permanent, lasting effect on America.  So you can expect more rounds of layoffs, more budget cuts, more disasters as we continue to spiral downward.  Food shortages this summer and fall.  There has already been a rise in economics-related violence, and domestic violence is spiraling upward.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/major-crim...-outbreak/

 As bad as you think it's going to get, it's going to be worse. Much, much worse. And we could have avoided it all.

[Mick]

There's no reason to think that the SIP orders are what is causing the problem. At best they're a minor contribution while preventing a lot of needless pain by keeping the ~10-20% of people (who aren't enough to sustain any kind of business) from becoming superspreaders.

Successful business owners aren't idiots, as a general rule.  It was blindingly simple to understand the economic hit that SiP would inflict upon the economy, so the business owners acted long before the economic devastation -- they didn't wait until after it occurred.  70% of the economy is driven by consumers, and SiP would mean that consumers were largely held out to dry. This meant that business owners had to make hard decisions in advance.  That included extending payables, accelerating collections efforts, cutting budgets, cutting salaries, cutting headcount.  I started discussing furloughs with our CEO in early March, which meant he was considering it long before that.  So the economic hit came in advance of the SiP.  The expectations driven by the SiP that everyone knew was coming drove the furlough decisions.  

And now, the average consumer and small business owner understands the nature of the economic devastation will mean ruin for them. Hence the protests, the creeping fear of the bleak future, the absolute knowledge that if we don't get back to work right now, they could lose everything. Joke's on them of course, we're long past the point of no return. And so you have the Elite judge scolding the Deplorable salon owner, and the judge demands an apology for the salon owner trying to feed her family.

More to the point, what is dawning on business owners now is that the economic devastation wreaked by SiP will have a permanent, lasting effect on America.  So you can expect more rounds of layoffs, more budget cuts, more disasters as we continue to spiral downward.  Food shortages this summer and fall.  There has already been a rise in economics-related violence, and domestic violence is spiraling upward.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/major-crim...-outbreak/

 As bad as you think it's going to get, it's going to be worse. Much, much worse. And we could have avoided it all.