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She had to shut down her Santa Ana market for the busiest retail weekend of the year Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Pozole Sunday because of a COVID-19 scare.
It’s one thing to write about pandemic-triggered shutdowns and how they have wrecked small businesses and livelihoods.
It’s quite another to live the pain.
We shut down until everyone tested negative for the coronavirus because it was the right thing to do but, man, did it hurt.
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So I was already annoyed as I fumbled with my keys. Then, a random guy passed by and asked if I needed help. He then must’ve seen the sign on my wife’s store that told people about our temporary closure, because he mumbled something to the effect that the latest restrictions Gov. Gavin Newsom had imposed on Southern California to try to flatten the coronavirus curve again were unfair.