Sole traders have not been considered at all during this lockdown. According to news reports, their plight was supposed to have been tabled and discussed by the president and his committee. To date nothing has been done.
So many businesses, many of whom have staff who have no other means of putting food on the table, will not survive this. I really do feel for them. But in the same breath, the government has really played us all for fools...
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