'We Have Lost It All': The Shock Felt by Millions of Unemployed Americans (NYT)

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3. It's only just beginning.

The loss of lives should rightly be the focus of this disaster, but we also need to be mindful of the economic toll which will be will be massive.
Millions of small businesses - so-called Mom & Pops - will be lost along with, for many of them, their entire assets. It's no secret in America that proprietors of these small businesses run just about everything through their businesses. Even larger concerns will be significantly down-sized if they survive at all.
Yes, corporations have themselves to blame for piling on debt, buying back their shares, and obscenely rewarding their executives at the expense of their non-union workforce, but here we are nonetheless.
Then there's the employees. It's also no secret that many of the jobs in the pre-virus economy were low-paying jobs. The OP example clearly describes one such person in this situation. These folks have to eat, to stay in their residences, to raise their families.
It's difficult to see how civil unrest will not follow the health emergency, or even accompany it.