08-20-2020, 11:56 AM
(08-20-2020, 11:54 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Yup, what we're seeing in Portland right now is just like every other big city. Just your typical crime and violence.
Tell that to the jeweler downtown whose store was looted for over a million dollars worth of inventory. Tell that to the 2,100 employee insurance company that is reporting 20 million dollars in losses, and recently had to relocate their offices to outside the city. Tell that to all the small business owners whose stores are covered in plywood and can't operate their businesses.
What you're seeing in Portland is pure desctruction. Physically and economically.
Again, that's not affecting day to day life here. There's stuff like that going on all over the country and all over the world. Portland is not special just because it's being used as a political football right now. You're just reading about what's going on here, I'm living it. Who do you think has a better insight to how local people and businesses are handling this? What's currently hurting business waaaaay more than protests are restrictions due to the pandemic.
