I'd still have a thriving business and employing a couple of people and two of my ex clients wouldn't be dead!
Due to the restrictions/lockdowns, I lost over half my client base, who'd typically been small non food shops, cafes, B&Bs, etc (live and work in a touristy part of the UK!). They were the ones who were part of the 3 million excluded who didn't get furlough, adequate grants, etc.
A few dozen had to give up their businesses, many went bankrupt, a few lost their homes, and a couple committed suicide. Nice one Rishi!
I had to make my two employees redundant when the scale of my client losses became obvious, there was simply nothing for them to do when I only had half the clients I had in 2019!
Business hasn't recovered. Lots of the B&B owners went to work in supermarkets or doing deliveries and have simply stayed doing that rather than re-opening their B&Bs! Most of the small shops never re-opened - most are still empty or have been converted to flats!
Absolutely disastrous to small businesses who weren't allowed to stay open, and even more so with the scattergun approach to grants etc where it was virtually a flip of a coin whether you got a support grant or not! 3 million didn't!