Rex Murphy: The message seems obvious: If a business is big enough, COVID-19 never visits. In a place with one owner and two staff, it’s a hazard.
It’s been something of a slogan from our leaders, municipal, provincial and federal, that “We’re all in this together.” Plainly we are not, if “together” is supposed to mean we are all feeling the same pressures, sharing the same anxieties, and open to the same hazards.
Those at the lower income level, those not with government employment, those not of the professional classes, are bearing far more strain and stress than those shielded by income, class or type of employment. All face COVID. But not all face COVID while struggling to continue a lifetime’s business; or, having already been on limited income, having no income at all now.
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