Greetings. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. Glad to have you with me. The phone number is 877-97-9-3-7-4-25, although you can't call in at the moment. The call screener is having to screen from home with sick kids and had to put one of them down for

a nap. So we will take your phone calls here in just a little while. This gives me time to move

along to other things that I wanted to get to while you're gearing up to yell at me.

I want to spend just a moment on this particular issue.

There is a restaurant across the street from my neighborhood.

It's a Mexican restaurant.

And we eat there once a week at least.

I mean, there have been weeks where we've eaten there two or three times a week.

I mean, we, there's so much they know us and know our order. It's, it's like that.

It's a wonderful restaurant. The nicest people. They really are just the nicest people.

And they closed on Wednesday last week and have not yet reopened and will not reopen until tomorrow because

they have too many workers sick with COVID.

Another restaurant in town I went to pick up dinner from the other day they I should

have I mean it was a 15 20 minute drive from the house to go pick up dinner

should have called them first because I got there and they were closed with COVID another

restaurant here in town closed early in the afternoon on Friday because they didn't have enough

workers show up local chick flA did the same thing.

My dry cleaners are closed because of COVID. A local law firm in town, everyone's working

remotely because of COVID. That's just my town. That's just my town.

But this is happening all over the country right now.

Around the country,

there are a great many small businesses

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