Lockdowns; A democrat Attempt To Kill The Economy - American Thinker Amazing how this new "wave" of "infections" just happens to coincide with the Christmas Shopping Season. Perhaps less noted is the fact that Main Street, USA is jeopardized by the shutdowns during the holiday season. Main Street is already full of shuttered small businesses that have not survived because of the lockdowns that began in March. Total lockdowns followed by reduced capacities have either finished off mom and pop boutiques, hair salons, restaurants, pubs, fitness centers and other small entities; or they have nearly suffocated them to death.  Those businesses that have hung on rely on the Christmas season to see them through the year.  Even in good times, most small businesses only turn a profit during the holiday season. Many would be completely finished off if there is a lockdown from Thanksgiving until after New Year’s. The initial push to squash the middle class by literally putting it out of business and starving it of funds did not quite succeed. New lockdowns certainly seem designed to snuff out the nascent resurrection of mom and pop operations -- to finish off the kulak middle classes, most of whom voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Of course, big corporations will remain unaffected. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/first_they_came_for_thanksgiving_now_they_are_coming_for_christmas.html