It is taking every ounce of strength for me not to put each person and financial institution in my circle who claims to offer support to small business on blast.

Every promise is empty and my business is barely hanging on.

Every ounce of me is focussed on staying calm.

I am used to a certain level of things being out of my control, but these past 6 weeks have tested me on a whole new level.

I want my business to survive this, but I am coming to terms this week with the reality that it is not in my control. I am not handling this well.

Social norms dictate a certain level of discretion with the realities of what we are going through, but that feels like an internal prison right now. The inability to honestly talk about how hard & unfair this is, is crushing.

My heart goes out to every single person who put their everything into their business or passion project only to watch forces beyond their control completely parasitize it.

To paraphrase others, covid is the virus but greed is the disaster.