Small businesses speak out on pain, opportunities of 2020
CEOs, founders turn companies in directions they couldn t have imagined 12 months ago
Editor s note: Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis.
There s the calendar year. The fiscal year. And for the first, and hopefully only, time ever, the pandemic year.
The latter began on Feb. 28, when the first Covid-19 case in Oregon was reported.
On March 12, Gov. Kate Brown ordered that no events with more than 250 people could be held for four weeks. The next day, Oregon schools closed for two weeks. An avalanche of stay-at-home orders, social distancing requirements, business closures, layoffs, eviction moratoriums, health care worker shortages and more crashed down upon us on a daily basis.