Businesses are in an endless loop: "San Francisco restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit articulated the bind she currently finds herself in: The pandemic has cratered her business at the same time that it’s made her staff’s continued employment—their salaries, their health insurance—that much more urgent. It’s an impossible situation. 'I don’t understand why it’s up to me as a small-business owner to search my conscience every month to decide whether or not to support my employees,' she said. 'Where is the conscience of this government, of this social system to support people? Where is the conscience of the country?' There is no doubt about what’s needed to contain the damage: masks, social distance, and federal funds to help people—workers and business owners alike." From TNR: https://lnkd.in/dTiFVF3 …see more