I was honestly shocked when I read that WaPo published a letter written by a small business owner decrying the damage that pandemic restrictions have done to small businesses. It doesn’t seem like the Washington Post to publish an article titled ‘It’s like Trump said: The cure has been worse than the disease,’ but they did.
Mike Fratantuono runs the Sunset Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland. He wrote WaPo hoping to shed some much-needed light on the damaging effects of harsh pandemic policies. His powerful letter about how he grew up in the restaurant that is now being ripped away from him is heartbreaking.
Franantuono says this is “four generations” of his family’s hard work, washed away by unjust laws:
“I know this virus is real, okay? It’s real and it’s awful. I’m not disputing any of that,” Mike wrote. “But our national hysteria is worse. We allowed the virus to take over our economy, our small businesses, our schools, our social lives, our whole quality of life. We surrendered, and now everything is infected.”
A Harsh Reality:
Fratantuono wrote about his realization that Trump was right. The ‘cure is worse than the disease’ because small businesses, like his, are dying.
“It’s like Trump said: The cure has been worse than the disease, Fratantuono wrote. “People spent too much time at home watching the news all day, drinking in this hysteria until they were spraying down their groceries and afraid to leave home. It became another anti-Trump thing in the press. The impeachment didn’t work, the killer bees didn’t work, so let’s blow covid out of proportion and see if it hurts him. But it’s the rest of us that got hurt. It was day after day of failure. It was a slow and painful death,” he added.
Meeting with his accountant put his options in perspective:
“We went to see our accountant at the end of the summer. He looked over the numbers but he didn’t say much, and that’s not like him. I said: “What would you do?” He said the way things were going, we’d have nothing left to lose within a few months.”
I don’t care where you stand on the pandemic. We need to look at this case by case, to be fair. In areas where they are still under total shutdown, businesses who can safely support reopening- should.
These are our neighbors, our fellow Americans, and it’s heartbreaking watching their dreams get snuffed out by over protective libs.
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