Professor Robert Fairlie of UC Santa Cruz looked at Current Population Survey data to determine the demographic makeup of the businesses destroyed by lockdowns, and the results strongly reinforce what we've been saying about lockdowns being the most racist policy in America: "African-American businesses were hit the hardest by COVID-19. The first estimates from April 2020 for black business owners in the United States indicate a massive drop of 41 percent."
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