I tell you, when I operate overseas or operated overseas, a lot of that money goes away and disappears and is laundered. It's, it's absolutely obscene and, and it needs to stop immediately. So Small businesses, you know, were crushed. Well, let's look at how they and why they were crushed. It was, it was, it was federal and state and local. They shut down businesses, but some were allowed to stay open. Tell me, Paul, why is the COVID virus less supposedly deadly in Home Depot than it is in mom and Pop's, you know, hardware shop? Seriously. (1:00:36–1:00:50)
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Asserts that small businesses were disproportionately affected by shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic due to federal, state, and local decisions.
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