The first offensive behavior in my legal business during lockdown was just having the door unlocked. My business survived, but I watched the balance in my business checking account decrease, that decrease equivalent to about 10% of my typical annual gross revenue - not net revenue, gross revenue. 

That was with me taking no salary and doesn’t include some personal savings thrown in later to maintain fluidity in the account. I did pay my rent on time, paid the bills, paid the taxes, and paid for one employee for bookkeeping and general office stuff. Other businesses in town were closed permanently. 

In that sense I’m fortunate. I view both the money I lost from checking and the loss to employees I had to send home without pay as Theft-by-Lockdown. I view closed businesses in my community as tragic. Is that a right of “the community?” Does “the community” have a right to steal from small businesses and our employees?

Theft-by-Lockdown, brought to us by government; government acting as the enforcement arm of “the community.”