Victor Davis Hanson - How COVID Lockdowns Killed Small Businesses | Highlights Ep.38
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- In this Highlight from Hillsdale College’s FREE online course, “American Citizenship and Its Decline,” Victor Davis Hanson explains how COVID lockdowns created massive advantages for large corporations at the expense of America's small businesses.
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They put small businesses out of business on purpose you’re completely right
Cuz paranoids know? I always listen to armchair experts. Cuz freaks know.
@@martinkent333 really bad take
Prove it. No one forced small businesses to close, they chose to close voluntarily because they didn't want to face threats of fines, jail. People faced the same threats throughout history such as the suffragettes. Owning a business and having a community wasn't important enough to people.
I am one of the people who fell in crack.
No welfare
No furlough money
Lockdown bankrupted me
And I'm still stupid enough to order stuff on amazon because I don't have enough money left
@@namename9998 you obviously haven't had a business license or a drinking license to keeping the pub
BE quiet. Listen and learn
It’s heartbreaking what the elite politicians did to small businesses over the last 2 years.
the rich look out for each other. workers are the enemy
I am one of the people who fell in crack.
No welfare
No furlough money
Lockdown bankrupted me
And I'm still stupid enough to order stuff on amazon because I don't have enough money left
'Chris' is incorrect.
@@peetsnort I am so sorry to hear that, Howard!! My father’s business also went bankrupt bc of the shutdowns. I think years from now when we look back we will realize that it was not in vain. I think we will look back on these days we are living through and realize that it was the point we all realize that government was totally out of control in America and it stopped being a government of the people and for the people. My hope is whoever our next president is will do what Reagan did and reduce the size of the federal government as much as possible.
"Here ya go Amazon ... keep the kick baaaa- I mean donations coming ..."
It was very obvious to see this happening when the major chain retailers were allowed to remain open while small businesses were ordered to close.
Why is the COVID-19 warning label on this video?? By now, everyone in the civilized world knows that neither lockdowns, nor vaccines, nor masks, nor distancing worked. Only natural immunity works. Government is corrupt because the media is corrupt.
Prove that small businesses were ordered to close. People fought and died so you could have freedoms and the minute they were tested you threw them away. Not being put in jail was more important than the right for you to operate your business, to leave your house without a mask, etc. Don't blame anyone else because people took advantage of weak people.
Funny, few of the small businesses around me were forced to close. bar, even restaurants stayed open allowed to transition to take, the local go'vt bent over backwards to support them. Allowing them to use the public ways for seating, even allowing them to serve beer & wine or patrons to bring their own..
It's too bad. People could've said no.
@@jimmoses6617 Yeah, & what caused that? The pandemic or the very laissez-faire attitude the Right presses at every chance?
It killed my 27 year old commercial cleaning business. We had 4 office buildings in the city the moment covid locked down we lost all our contracts because there was no one in the buildings , everyone was working from home. I worked so hard to make the business flourish and under trump i had three amazing years we almost doubled our income.then boom. All gone.
This was part of the plan. Wealth Distribution as well as power.
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Yes, that should have been obvious to anyone with an IQ greater than 70. DNC-RNC have same goal. Total control of the peasants.
By taking it away from small business? Power should belongs to the people. Looks at all cov restrictions protests. Power Will BE given back to the people.
Only one party in this country, and indeed in the entire West: The Capitalist Party! Not “free-market capitalism”, mind you, but the crony kleptocapitalism of the super wealthy; i.e., Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Oil, etc. The solution is “state capitalism”; I.e., nationalization of large corporations, but small and medium-sized business retaining private ownership. Also, there must exist a mechanism wherein the super wealthy capitalists are disenfranchised, and barred from the political process, to prevent their resurgence.
Actually, it’s more like wealth concentration, with the residue distributed to the plebs.
We need to boycott the corportations and support small business even if we have to pay a little more... freedom always has a price!
It's a little late for that. Hundreds of millions have been buying from Amazon everyday for over 20 years now. What small businesses are you going to shop at the buy clothes, pharmacy items, shoes, tools, etc? There are none.
@@reidwhitton6248 It's never too late... and yes all of these small businesses still exist... we need to patronize them...
@@reidwhitton6248 I am one of the people who fell in crack.
No welfare
No furlough money
Lockdown bankrupted me
And I'm still stupid enough to order stuff on amazon because I don't have enough money left
@@peetsnort I hope you can get back on your feet. I'm not judging anybody for shopping at Amazon. But we can see the results of this over the years. They are now a gigantic monopoly with too much power and all the politicians can do is give them more tax breaks.
@@reidwhitton6248 yes. In the UK it costs a pound to send a letter by post to the UK. If you buy a battery for a pound on amazon you get a letter with the battery from China and the postage is free. Something is smelly
This was a crime against humanity. We won’t forget.
Your paranoia is fun, Rube?
The top 1% now has more money than the entire middle class 60%. This has never happened before.
The pyramid + twin pyramid + triple pyramid =.?
They employ 7 billion folks?
@MrHalified They employ 7 billion folks? Your MAMA?
@MrHalified 5 trillion
As a small business owner who had the luck to be in a state where we weren't forced to shutter, I am so heartened to hear Prof. Hanson's spot-on assessment. We are grateful to have survived what appears to be the worst of the pandemic power grab, but feel hollowed and footnoted in history, as so much chaff spat out by the thresher. Thank you for remembering those whose livelihoods - and dignity - were torn so callously away, for nothing.
"to have survived what appears to be the worst of the plandemic power grab" FIFY ... btw, the "worst" hasn't arrived yet. Never under-estimate evil. That's how we arrived at this dystopia.
Small business are social fabric.
Where and who you choose transfer money is a political decision.
I hope you did not comply with the masks mandates as well.
I opened my business about 4 months before lockdowns. (K-12 tutoring. In-person only) Destroyed my nascent client base and caused most of my staff to.move on. So many of my business neighbors fared even worse. Just ugly all around.
@@saintapathy frankly with the masks mandates people should have done business with you instead of complying with the schools masks mandates. People should have home school their kids.
"How COVID Lockdowns Killed Small Businesses". Include me in that too. Cost me over 100 grand and tax man tens of thousands. Fortunately I was coming up to retirement so had some funds to live on but would have been a disaster for a younger person. Politicians are clueless.
They know what they're doing
Politicians are corrupt to the core but they know how to deliver good speeches.
If you believe lockdowns and masks worked, I have a 1716 Stradivarius I've got for sale - very affordable. 🙂
The politicians are not clueless. The corporations who wanted your business paid them more bribes than you did. Bribery is called lobbying and is completely legal.
Canadian truckers are leading the way. We must all follow to preserve our Liberties from the tyrants who created this attack on human dignity.
And everyone please remember that the American labor unions are already siding with Trudeau and Biden against the Canadian Truckers, which means against Canadians and Americans in general. Read the condemnation letter from the Teamsters.
@@bengoolie5197 It's no surprise. Unions are bullies that drive up the cost of everything including even their "members" dues.
The prophecy ATLANTIS
The truckers' strike is part of the plan by the perpetrators of this evil agenda. Instead of going on strike, and destroying these supply chains forever, truckers need to just roll on through the borders and deliver their goods, ignoring governments.
'Poz' seems cuckoo, is what I hear. Canadian truckers seem to be the biggest snowflakes, from what I see....
V.D. Hanson is truly an AMERICAN Treasure. I tell everyone to listen to this man.
Keet619 you should listen more closely to what this man just said. He claimed ‘we’ told small business to shut down. He said ‘we’ told Walmart and Home Depot to stay open. No ‘we’ didn’t. Did you? Well who did then? If Hanson was an honest man he wouldn’t be blaming it on the people. You must listen to all his words closely. He is a con man.
I think he's nuts. Cuckoo.
I find it interesting that the government drove all business to the large corporations, provide tax incentives, and bailouts while if you owned a small business the government would give you a LOAN.
Cuz paranoids always know?
Your right Victor, I'm a retired truck driver up here in Canada and I've seen more small businesses disappear than ever before. It sure not the easy living I was use to. Makes you wonder where it's all going. It's sad! 😒👎
The goal is make disappear of drivers. Instead the gobalists want to put AI cars/ trucks on thé streets. Who profit our of it ? the electro car maker!
@@leroywood8410 l'm keeping a close eye on the middle east too. Israel is not going to wait much longer.
If you were a hunter instead of a trucker you would have read the sign and KNOW where it's going.
if you were educated, you wouldn't wonder. Read David Harvey's Neocolonialism or Richard Wolff Capitalism hits the fan
@David Kucher. I see that you have a Kucher last name. Are your roots by any chance from Ukraine? I come from the family of the same last name.
I work in a factory in MN. We did not shut down but they did a lot of ridiculous "social distancing" procedures that curtailed production enormously. We got lots of new employees, including one I worked with from Houston who did interior work on people's kitchens and some other rooms. He started from helping friends and relatives and grew into a business with a decent sized customer list with employees of his own. During the lockdowns he lost his customers and business because he wasn't allowed to go into people's houses anymore to work. Contractor work like his didn't disappear completely, but some were allowed to continue and others were just screwed. He ended up moving in with relatives here and finding a much less rewarding job. He does great work here but it's still sad to see people's lives turned upside down because of this attack on the small business people that were successful enough to not have a boss aside from their customers. There are many thousands, perhaps millions of families affected negatively in similar ways from this Covid attack while the powerful ones just attain more and more clout.
I sympathize but how was it an attack on small businesses? If people were too paranoid to let strangers in their home that's not an attack on small businesses. Small business owners should have tried harder to convince customers that they weren't a threat (if you trust them enough to repair something...).
@@namename9998 You do realize that some businesses had their employees called "essential" and others did not back in 2020, right? These determinations were made by state and local governments, which in occupations like his were obviously based on who was connected and who was not. Let's just say my co-worker did not have these connections or anywhere close to the monetary resources to "convince" the right people to call him and his employees "essential". He was 'essentially' put out of business for months, which was more than enough to become permanent.
@@joelleet554 Someone called people mean names and they obeyed. Current generations are morons. People literally died so that others wouldn't be oppressed but the minute you're put in a situation you cave. The way commerce works is if you have a product that people want they'll buy it. You chose not to sell products even though people would have bought them. That's your fault. With the exception of death no one can stop you from doing business. Robbers could kill employees at any time but people don't let that stop them from doing business.
Thanks for the story. I find the story about the contractor baffling. Was he a contractor in TX or MN? What I find baffling is that he would be impacted as he did his work in people’s homes, not out of a store. I can understand that some people might be so fearful they might not let others in their homes. But, I would think some wouldn’t care, though they might want the contractor to wear a mask. I live in Illinois and have heard of no such stories and I know someone who is a contractor.
@@ericdailey8587 He was living in Houston, TX. I have to admit I don't know all the details about exactly what happened and didn't press him too hard about it, but Texas was far from the freest of states at the beginning of this situation, and Houston least of all. Though I'm not from a metro area it was shocking how people from places like that (and even rural areas) were scared out of their minds. He'd only quit his other job and started doing this full time the previous year. It seems that the interruption of work came at a time when he 100% needed income he thought was already guaranteed and it disappeared.
As I think back to that time I recall that even here we got this printout to carry with us while traveling to show we were 'essential employees' as if we would be pulled over and asked where we were going. It was surreal.
As the legislature did absolutely nothing to stop this travesty of justice. Thanks for sharing.
What travesty? Small businesses owners voluntarily killing themselves? Yeah. It's sad, but they did it to themselves. No one forced them to shut down. People died so others had freedom and the minute that freedom was tested people threw it away. Pathetic. If you don't like that big business took advantage of situations then you should have helped to keep small businesses open (you could have called small business owners and told them that if they were to remain open that you would buy from them). It's always rich people's faults. Ironic considering conservatives/the "right" promote personal responsibility as long as it fits their narrative.
@@namename9998 not so simple. Many cities fines small businesses and arrested owners who opened their stores. Many did not voluntarily close shop.
@@figward Would you have been arrested before 2020 for operating the business? If not, if you believe in something enough then it's a risk you take. If you're not willing to take that risk then don't complain when you lose your business. Throughout history people have had to face these challenges. People were even killed for their beliefs. Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, MLK. Small business owners might have been jailed (if every business owner refused to shut their doors do you really believe there is enough space in prison for everyone, and that non-violent criminals would be put in the same jails as violent criminals. If fines were the issue then that's really pathetic. There's such a thing as class action lawsuits. If enough people joined together then they would have gotten their money back. But no. Instead, everyone voluntarily shut their doors and are now whining about "poor me. Big business stole from me" "a germ shut down my business".
@@namename9998 things are not so simple in liberal run cities.
@@figward Excuses. People just don't want to go to jail or pay a few fines.
We had many small businesses here in Michigan that defied the shutdowns and they were fined heavily by the state. It was absolutely sickening. Turned me into a tax revolter.
As an essential small business, it all but put us out of business. Even though we could operate, people were not spending their money because they were uncertain of the future, furloughed, let go, etc. This was all so well calculated. Sure wish I wasn’t so naive and saw this coming.
And sadly, I am often at odds with a very dear friend of mine who believes we should ALL follow any “rules”, he believes main media, and thinks if anything should change, then we ALL need to be on board with it, otherwise people should expect penalties for not following.
All I can do is SMH. This did so much collateral and consequential damages that it’s incalculable.
The credulity of the "rule followers" was taken advantage of, by politicians who WANTED the lockdowns to continue, indefinitely.
The government hates small business. During the days of Affirmative Action from 1970 to present, employment was controlled by the Unemployment Office. The Unemployment Office enforced Affirmative Action.
It was difficult for me to find employment through the Unemployment Office.
Small business was my main source of employment.
That is an interesting point.
The government bureaucrats, elites, and radical left all hate the entrepreneurial middle class because they have no need for them.
The government and big corporations merging is fascism. Add violence and we’re at the peak. They have a common enemy: the small business
I became self-employed in 1987 when it finally dawned on me that I could not depend on ANY business to keep me employed. Finding a job in my small town of less than 18,000 people was near impossible. You basically had to know a guy who knew a guy that could get you a job. The Unemployment office was a joke. I was not going to be a dead beat and started my own business in something that I was already at least familiar with. In about 11 months I reach full retirement age and have been self-employed all these years. I could never again work for someone else although I realize some do well as an employee and that there must of necessity be employees. It just wasn't for me. I managed just barely to refinance my paid off car back in 1987 for just enough to get me started and added better equipment when possible. I'm in no way condemning being an employee, just saying there are other options for some who dare to start their own business. Btw, there is 1,000 times more help available now for starting a small business than there was in 1987.
Most small businesses hire on qualifications, not quotas
This man knows what he is talking about. We need him in DC.
Victor Davis Hanson is a frequent commentator on Fox News shows like Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jesse Watters. He should have his own show.
He is a BS artist and not an expert on virus.
@@sterlingferguson1704 Why would you need to be an expert on a virus to note some simple statistics? Many corporations became richer during the pandemic. Many small businesses were shut down due to quarantine protocols.
The WORLD needs people of his ilk to awaken the sleep walking so they stop dragging us into oblivion with them.
@@loop1479 Cuz paranoids know. I love your delusions and armchair expertise.
I said this right from the start- obvious.!
Yep, and why is the COVID-19 warning label on this video?? By now, everyone in the civilized world knows that neither lockdowns, nor vaccines, nor masks, nor distancing worked. Only natural immunity works. Government is corrupt because the media is corrupt.
I tried telling anyone that would listen, right from the first week of lockdown here in UK, that we had a choice: we could break out of this stranglehold on trade; or we must prepare ourselves for life under totalitarian, collectivist rule and a life of abject misery.
The biggest unanswered question is are we going to vote these POS politicians out of office that did this to us. Trumps tweets don't seem so bad now, do they.
Your paranoia is legit? Are you a total freak?
Trump warned you, that they (the WEF and their puppets) are after you ages ago. He said *They are not coming for me, but they are coming for you. I stand in their way* and this is how the election in the US got manipulated, since Biden follows the corrupt and inhumane Schwab agenda.
Its a lot cheaper for big business to shut down the competition than it costs to buy them out or try to compete one on one
...and it further empowered big tech and major retailers. Sadly, this was the plan.
Deep state
@@dife8227 what to do about it?
@@dks13827 Not much. Simply keep standing up for what it is you believe in and refuse to bend over and become another mindless sheep.
Fortunately, many citizens are waking up.
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I ask that everyone go to drug store and buy a box or bag of masks and have the pharmacy read the notices on them about how the do not protect the user or those around them from germs and viruses. Ask the cashier as well
Why is the COVID-19 warning label on this video?? By now, everyone in the civilized world knows that neither lockdowns, nor vaccines, nor masks, nor distancing worked. Only natural immunity works. Government is corrupt because the media is corrupt.
I appreciate this man so much.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
What he says is true.
I learn something new every single time I listen to this brilliant man talk. Thank you sir
That paranoia AND delusions are real? Your mental health is that bad?
@@martinkent333 really bad take.
They want to make everyone dependent on centralised government handouts so they can control them.
@@audience2 Cuz paranoids and anarchists always know?
@@arminius504 Cuz brainwashing is a beautiful thing? Anarchy? Paranoia?
The foundation of Fascism… small businesses were closed as big business is easier to regulate which is the intention of the fascist state
Your paranoia shines in any emergency, Rube!!!!!!!
yep, had to shut down my 17 year old buisness ....then try someone to give me work when i was my own boss for 17 years and 45 years old
The term, "managed decline" keeps rolling around in my head...
Yep, ‘not economically viable’ I think that was a line from the Mike Douglas movie Falling Down.
Cuz paranoids like you frolic in funnyville?
I was a teenager in the 1980s and saw Margaret Thatcher reverse the managed decline of the United Kingdom. The United States is still much more powerful in the world than Britain was then. The 21st century can still be America's.
We need to stop intercoursing with STATE OF... federal corporate franchises. Return to private business and keep the "state" out.
Cuz paranoid and delusional freaks should be listened to? Armchair experts, who know zip? Do they have a HUNCH?
A.........................CLUE?
@@martinkent333 for example: STATE OF NEBRASKA is a franchise of the United States inc. Supreme court refers to government as dejure (Lawful) government created by the people and defacto (corporate) gov created by congress.
👍🏿 Hanson and Hillsdale College. I take advantage of their free courses. 👍🏿🇺🇲🙏🏿🇺🇲🙏🏿
My partner has been telling me to look into them. He said its pretty crazy how much he thsught he new compared to what he actually new.
Small businesses like hairdressers, small hardware stores, etc had to close. But everything else like Home Depot, Amazon, large grocery retailers were all deemed “essential”.
VDH is one of the best out there tbh...I do not even agree with him on every single detail but he is the kind of clear thinker we all need
The real “Great Reset”.
Your paranoia is fun, Rube?
This is effect means, the “ localist” movement we’ve been experiencing for years was effectively working. Nothing says “scary” to a large corp than a contented city and/or town. Whole small towns are being purchased at record levels by the likes of Berkshire intended to cash in on “ cozy”.
Your paranoia and your delusions are perfect. Classic. As long as your mental health is suffering, the brainwashing is working. You are CONVINCED!! COMMITTED!! NOTHING WILL MAKE YOU SEE REALITY AS IT IS!!!!! CUZ IT'S ALL ROTTEN....... Delusions and brainwashing - combined with paranoia make you a depressing freak. Kids, some adults are immune to volunteering and making things better. They just whine and complain and depress you.
Intentionally for sure.
Everyone should boycott Amazon and there will be need again for the small businesses.Tides need to change and only we can change it !!
VDH, one of the clearest minds and voices around right now. I enjoy hearing him speak. Thanks for bringing him to us.
Right! We knew this all along, but were demonized for saying so!
Why is the COVID-19 warning label on this video?? By now, everyone in the civilized world knows that neither lockdowns, nor vaccines, nor masks, nor distancing worked. Only natural immunity works. Government is corrupt because the media is corrupt.
@@violinhunter2 Your paranoia is fun?
@@martinkent333 Eigentlich? Da....
God Bless VDH.
National Treasure
Destroyed businesses while helping mega corporations
Cuz paranoids always seem to know, in any emergency?
they complied, no resistance
most were even buying the narrative
I have 0 pity!
There was much resistance. They went to jail, then went out of business. You will get no pity either, and you don't deserve any.
@@Joe-mk3ii Your paranoia is a wonderful thing, Cupcake?
Paranoia is a wonderful thing?
Same in the UK, the government hates small business. We got no help during lockdown in the UK.
When covid hysteria began in March of 2020 police were rousting beachcombers and lone Surfers, telling them they had to get off the beach.
Beachcomber: "Where should we go?"
Police: "Over there to that Walmart."
Some not so small businesses too. Golden Corral closed in our town and is still closed. The drive thru chains struck gold with long lines every day and the prices for the food about doubled.
The Walmart where I live was and remains crampacked since this pandemic. Walmart's response has been to close the entry doors on one end so everyone had to come and go in the same place. They also closed the store down, not only during the night, but also in the late evening. This resulted in making everyone safer. NOT!
Those in charge need to go to jail !! That is theft !!!
There were long lines just to get into the superstore s
I hope American Atty's are watching and listening to Canadian Atty ViVa Frei. He has been critical to his following in educating and leading us to a clear understanding (I am American and deeply passionate with the Feedom Convoy, have been 18 days). Viva Frei is passionate, intelligent and very funny. Speaks French, English fluently and some Hebrew, definitely some Yidish. The USA needs what he's delivering during our Convoy that will be heading out to DC on March 1, 2022. I've only learned what I truly amazing and fine College Hillsdale is recently. Thank you for who you are and what you stand for. Your integrity is impeccable.
Victor David Hansen is my Favorite read in Epoch Times
"Follow the money". Politicians, governments, and big businesses working together to take over our economy? Living in small towns I see how many places shuttered their doors while Amazon is prospering in ways never before seen.
Yup amizon put a building in my small town around a year ago. In the middle of the plandemic.
I've taken several courses from this guy at Hillsdale college. He knows what he's talking about he's a very good educator.
We have been castrated and we will do likewise or die trying...yours truly your patriot queen....
Lady Liberty 🗽❤
I don’t really understand that part of it so now I’m thinking that was intentional
In my local Wegmans everybody in my towns around me I was a really small it was like sardines in there
TRUE , SMALL Businesses very much affected
I remember they even shut down a lady in NJ who was selling things online and then shipping them... but never shut down Amazon, which does the same thing.
American people hope one day “build buck better “ dictators will be prosecuted for this crime!
Not only did it destroy small business, it handicapped healthy people & their livelihoods because people who might get sick... might get sick.
THAT'S crazy.
Small business shifted online awhile ago. The pandemic accelerated that even more. The smart ones adapted quickly, others were stuck at brick and mortar stores. Some may not have a choice based on the business they are in.
Thank you Professor Hanson,
And we must not forget that the Tech industry has been shutting down large Companies for years now.
Take a look at the Department Stores and other businesses that were successful because they were designed around the concept of people and families leaving home and going to the Mall to spend time browsing, shopping, eating and just being together as family and friends; doing so THE AMERICAN WAY.
The Tech sector has taken from us a Blessing ,and turned it into a curse, and did so with our own Blessings.
We the people gave in to the manipulative culture of laziness and individual gratification, and the MONSTERS of the Globalists Tech Industry took advantage of our weakness for the SELF, and got us to DESTROY a way of life that has served us well for hundreds of years.
Let us look back at the days of the Department Stores, Restaurants, and other Businesses that Created the Concept of the Mall, The place where hundreds of peoples and families met Daily to enjoy being with Friends and family.
Are we satisfied with sitting on our behinds watching Television programs that are funded by these same people who seduced us to support their online service at the Cost of FAMILY TOGETHERNESS, Exercise and peace of mind, and not to forget the discontent and loneliness that our children are suffering because of Big tech coming between us and them.
GOD bless and deliver America from evil.
To say that some businesses were not essential and had to be destroyed by shutting them down while big ones were open full of people moving about in spite of CV was evil.
Lockdown was the way to destroy the middle class
Cuz paranoids always seem to know?
when all this is over. id like to open my game shop at some point. was gonna try before the pandemic hit but scrapped that idea for now. when i plan to move out of nevada, hope to open one
I work for Walmart. At our store, we are seeing daily sales figures that we would see only on Black Friday and weekends between Black Friday and Christmas.
They smashed businesses as deliberately and ruthlessly as vandals smash statues and store windows. They should be jailed.
This Man's voice
Thank you for bringing these facts out.
Your paranoia is assured?
We shut down 2 businesses, a small 3 truck trucking company and a small farm. There was limited freight to haul and what was available paid so low I would have to pay out of pocket... ie at a loss, in the red. 3 years in business, not strong and stable enough to have extended losses on every load. Farm, custom meat production... you order the exact type and kind of meat product, we bought and raised the animal until slaughter then you pick up at butcher. We had been in business 5 years. No one was looking to pay the price of $20 while finished chickens when uncertainty and Walmart had em for $7-8.
And then all the peppers started buying chicks, destabilizing the chick market as breeders could not meet demand, price goes up blah blah blah. We knew several small businesses we hauled freight for, machine shops, electrical contractors, building contractors, other small manufacturing etc... all out of business. One guy who had a small welding business is still going, 1 out of 20 small businesses survived.
People talk about supporting small businesss and that means a coffee stop or boutique or nail/salon but are clueless about all the others. Gone now, GONE!
The saddest part is that most Americans don't understand their Constitutional rights and its importance to sustain the freedom we enjoy, and neither of the 3 branches of the federal government made any effort to protect our Constitutional rights. In my opinion, lockdowns and mandates violates the Constitution and promotes bigger government. You know we practicing socialism when the government says large corporations are exempt from tyrannical COVID policies, but everyone else isn't. Luckily, governors like DeSantis and Noem tried their best to protect the freedoms and rights of their states from the federal government and local Democrat politicians.
Absolute brilliance! God bless this man and NOT the following populace.
Cuz God is a delusion and your paranoia is real. Satan aka paranoia makes you KNOW?
@@martinkent333 really bad take
That was the plan. Big companies comply. Small business can't afford it and won't comply.
I saw the plan from day one. As a sole practicing doctor I decided to not pay my office mortgage for almost the entire two year span of this stupidity. I didn’t even practice. I saved every dollar I had in the bank except paying the building power and utilities as to not feel as if legitimately cheating. I saw the release of the lockdown as hope for the stupid and yes I was correct another came quickly. All those people who survived spending all of their savings hats off I hope you recover. To all those who spent every last dime and then failed to get it going again I am sorry the government caused that scenario for you and you didn’t see it coming. I saw this coming and quickly did the math. I was shut down for a period of time that would have drained my savings paying that mortgage if we saw no clear end in sight. It would have ruined me. For any asking why I didn’t practice when deemed essential is because I refused to wear a mask and my patients were disapproving of that practice. I watched all of the humans I cared for turn zombie with fear and I am no zombie to irrationally based tyranny. As it turns out my mortgage company called finally and said hey we gotta do something. I told them I wasn’t going to be paying unless we worked somethings out and so we did. They lowered my then current 6 % mortgage to 2 % and set the first payment to start 6 months done the road. They cleared interest accrued and also took the principle and interest paid before I stopped and filled my escrow only flipping the current owed escrow into my loan. We were able to negotiate a great deal when we sat down and actually discussed what I saw and what was happening and I knew they were hurting with a mass loss of mortgage owners due to this plandemic. They were able to negotiate anything due to government helping them with adjustments but no clear bailout for them so they are stuck with the problems that were created except for the negotiation process being an out. I would have lost everything had I not made that decision. I knew it was a power grab and shift of wealth when I saw as you said Walmart Home Depot Lowe’s Kroger’s Amazon etc still open while we walked in and repeatedly held the self scanners of the person before me with no cleaning etc. pathetic to see. Sad to see how all those people working tirelessly without a vaccine were immediately jeopardized by their career when it was attempted to be mandated. Ridiculous. Just happy I saw it first
During the the 2 yr run of the Spanish Flu, the country never went into lockdown. The people went about their business without disruption. Everything was open.
There hasn't been anything like that since then until now. What has changed since then?
You are Correct. The first time in American History the Country was locked down and masked. The Leaders of America at the time of the Spanish Flu, did not want to take away the Liberties of the People. Because, lockdown and mask do not prevent spread. Also, Americans were told they did not have to take a vaccine if they had recovered from the Spanish Flu, because they have natural immunity. The first time in American History of Pandemics vaccine was mandated for all Americans and children, without exemption of Natural Immunity or Religion. First time in American History Churches were closed and lockdown, including wars within America were not Closed.
@@julialane6645 Thank you Julia. Would you say this is a plandemic and not a so-called pandemic that those in charge wanted to begin the process of the great reset and making the Convid-1984 virus code for climate change aka Agenda 21?
The way this was handled was a disaster and was designed to scare the living you know out of the easily controlled sheeple and to forget about using logic and common sense to see that this was all a farce the CDC recommendations and everything else.
@@ericmadsen7470 I believe the Socialist/Communist tied to the waist of China took advantage of Covid to control the American People and wipe out the Middle Class. Also, shut down Churches to take away Religion. Americans need to forget about Ukraine and see what has happened to Canada under Communist Rule, because of Covid. America is only a few steps away from Canada. Notice Progressive Democrats are giving America a break from mask, and easing mandates for votes? If they are re Elected they will return in full force and America will be a Communist Country under control of China.
Remember we must hang together or we will surely hang alone. First your guns then your freedom, GAME OVER.
Canada is a example of taking arms away from the People. America never give up our 2nd Amendment, and Freedom of Speech.
i worked for a nice little SAT prep company for a year and we did good work teaching high school students. the entire company is dead now
I am in New Zealand and you can go anywhere and probably see 20% empty stores up for lease and the government tries to say everything is good.
Shopping has gone up at least 25% to 50%.
I lost my 34year career to the covid crisis 22 months ago and can't seem to land a job because of my age ( I am 60 now... the retirement age is 65.) and I am sure there's plenty of people in the same and worst circumstances.
Even without the lockdowns it's likely many small businesses wouldn't have survived in certain parts of the country. There were/are still many people who are in self imposed lockdown, still afraid to go to restaurants and are still wearing masks where they're not mandated.
You live in a city I'm guessing. Where I live most people are not nearly that afraid.
@@miker9082 I'm in southern NH which makes this behavior even more confusing.
Yeah that is strange. I'm in northern NY state. I haven't masked in almost two years. Most blue collar businesses didn't mask either and didn't enforce the farce. I did get thrown out of a supermarket once. But only once.
I don't know anyone that died or was hospitalized. Covid was a big city problem not a rural problem.
And there is two class of people that I blame for carrying out this whole joke. The cops, for enforcing it, and the sheep for giving into it.
You destabilize and pride yourself in it.
Victor Davis Hanson's message here is powerful because it is true.
They also allowed Liquor sales but no church prayers
Gee, if only we weren't saying this from day one.
In truth, the governments did not choose the corporations, instead the corporations choose the governments.
Nah. It was set up like this. They are all in bed with each other.
Why can’t we have smart and well informed and magnificent man like hime for President?
I'm accountant. I had to work with so many bankruptcy attorneys for their financials
Not covid ... government did it !
Rise up and fight the liberals
It’s only the beginning
Fight Fight Fight!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Your thought is great
Its time we stand up and end the insanity. The peoples convoy.
I am guessing more conservatives would be entrepreneurs, having hope in living "the American dream", that it is through personal efforts that you succeed, not handouts or big businesses.
And wearing masks is also killing small businesses.
I found it ridiculous that Walmart wouldn't let us get kids clothes, yet makeup aisles were open. Like clothes for my growing child aren't necessary?
The same here in Brazil.
REMEMBER JESUS CAN RAISE THE DEAD, READ JOB, THE DEVIL CAUSED JOB TO LOSE EVERYTHING FAMILY, RICHES, HE TRUSTED IN GOD STAYED FAITHFUL NEVER GAVE UP IN THE END HE GAINED BACK MORE THAN HE LOST
That is exactly what it was suppose to do. Total control. Wake up. Run to the open arms of Jesus.
My landscaping business was shut down for 8 weeks many in Washington state where arrested for working
Communist elected in power in Washington State and across America. Wake up Americans and vote them out.
I have the same floor lamp!
Vic, would like your historical perspective on Ukraine please! Covid's passe with WWlll in the gun sites.
The Russian economy is 5% of the US economy. The world together would steamroll those idiots.