no – I agree that the small business owners are suffering and that an opening and re-closing could be devastating for them. I also don’t know about what kind of support or assistance they have gotten but to say “favors growth of the big business” as if it is all bad is not honest. I have no love for many of the big corporations, I have seen too many things that are not very impressive in the limited exposure I have, but I do remember some of the issues in supporting big businesses being a way to keep them from heading overseas and keeping jobs in our communities.
I know that my employer let me go, but my husband works for a ‘big business’ who kept him working, paid for his corona weeks (although they would not have paid for quarantine time!), gave them a “hero’s bonus for being frontline workers and left us with income. I have to be grateful for that. Especially at a time that big business have been leaving states and countries when taxes get too high or workers cost too much. I kind of see it like the bully who threatens to have a tantrum if you don’t give him what he wants, and if you have enough to gain, you give him what he wants.
That may only apply to a small portion of big buisiness, or most of them, I have no idea. But making them “happy” and keeping them local does benefit us in a large handful of ways.