‘I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up – The New York Times

More owners are permanently shutting their doors after new lockdown orders, realizing that there may be no end in sight to the crisis.

That day, June 26, Mr. Larkin and his partner dumped what they had just bought into the trash and decided to close their club, Krank It Karaoke, for good.

“We did everything we were supposed to do,” Mr. Larkin said. “When he shut us down again, and after I put out all that money to meet their rules, I just said, ‘I can’t keep doing this.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/business/small-businesses-coronavirus.html