Aside from their stated reasons for raging, whatever the other factors are for the permanent business closures and job losses from the lockdown and the loss of all discretionary income and being told not to go out aren't helping things any.
Perversely, the surviving businesses may fare a little better than they would have had their competition remained online.
Did you omit or just ignore this context?
"Donald Trump on Saturday belittled some of the protesters who’ve taken to the streets in cities across the United States, and raised the prospect of deploying violence against the American people for the second time in two days.
Trump on Saturday drew fierce condemnation from the mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, for using the language of violent segregationists during the civil rights era.
Late on Friday, as protesters gathered in front of the White House, Trump had tweeted that protesters could have been attacked with “vicious dogs and ominous weapons” wielded by the US Secret Service. He also attacked the mayor for supposedly not providing police to protect the White House.
“They let the ‘protesters’ scream and rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard – didn’t know what hit them,” Trump said.
Without evidence, the president claimed the protesters were “professionally” organized.
“If they had [breached the fence],” he said, “they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”
Bowser, a Democrat, said that she stood with peaceful protesters while Trump “hides behind his fence”.
“To make a reference to vicious dogs is no subtle reminder to African Americans of segregationists who let dogs out on women, children and innocent people in the south,” Bowser said.
She added: “There are no vicious dogs & ominous weapons. There is just a scared man. Afraid/alone.”
