> My guess is that 90% of businesses could have gone on outside, easily weathered this storm, and picked right back up where they left off if we had simply paus

> My guess is that 90% of businesses could have gone on outside, easily weathered this storm, and picked right back up where they left off if we had simply paused rent payment You can't go home again, though. Meaning that the world pre-Covid is gone and it's not something we can return to. We will always need dentists and daycares and so on, but much of the retail was already on its way out. And then if Covid marks a shift to WFH then lots of restaurants that depended on office workers are no longer viable. The world is changing and creative destruction, while painful, is needed.