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In reply to the discussion: CVS (now jobless) employees speak out against violence in Baltimore. [View all]pipi_k
(21,020 posts)for whatever length of time it takes for that CVS to reopen, IF it ever does.
And if it doesn't reopen, but she's offered a job at another CVS, it could be on the other side of town. At a distance that, if she doesn't have access to a car, she might very well have to take multiple buses to get to.
Then there's the senior center, which I'm assuming hadn't been opened yet, but the people who could have worked there have lost their jobs. That senior center also contained affordable housing units that people now cannot live in. The entire building is a total loss. Sixteen million dollars down the drain.
Some people had stores that may or may not have been covered by insurance. If you're just scraping by on what you make in your store, you probably can't afford insurance. What do those people do now?
PS...and people can dislike Capitalism but be realistic enough to know that people who live here must live with the reality of Capitalism.