Businesses need support and greet customers with a smile. Local business owners employ residents and students that allow for people to provide for their families and themScott County businesses joined a long list selves. of things being affected by the Coronavirus Local businesses provide income for Scott (COVID-19) pandemic as they have faced hard- County families. For some, it is their livelihood ship in the light of reduced customers. As shelter and passion. Owners and workers put countless in place, social distancing and quarantine re- time and effort into their craft and into the comstrictions have been mandated, local businesses munity. In recent years, local businesses worked have had to respond to a reduced to have an increased presence in customer base and therefore a the Scott County community. decreased profit margin. In addiThey have been essential in growtion, many were forced to close ing and progressing the commuin accordance with government nity. They provide services and regulations. sources of employment while During such times of hardEVERYONE IS continuing to improve our comship, as a community, people munity as a whole. BEING TRIED IN need to come together to work As a community, it is our turn NEW WAYS AS to support the businesses that to support our local businesses. WE ATTEMPT TO sponsor little league teams, buy While residents were restricted NAVIGATE THESE yearbook ads and donate to clubs. to essential travel only, they can still find ways to support local UNPRECEDENT- Everyone is being tried in new businesses still open during the ED TIMES, BUT ways as we attempt to navigate pandemic. Many businesses are WE NEED TO DO these unprecedented times, but offering delivery or curbside SO AS A we need to do so as a communipick up options. Customers are ty. We need to make a conscious COMMUNITY. effort to buy local and look for still able to support local busiJaiden Herald, ness by ordering deliveries, a way to assist local businesses Co-Editor-in-Chief making donations, purchasing during these times. Everyone is gift cards or simply sharing/likcapable of helping. Challenge ing on social media. yourself to purchase lunch from a local restaurant Despite the circumstances, people must or buy a gift for an upcoming birthday from a lomake an effort to remember and support local cal business. Set a goal to merely share their busibusinesses as business owners and employees ness post or give them a shout on social media. struggle during these unprecedented times. LoAs we all struggle during these times of crical businesses are the ones that continuously sis, let us remember to look out for our neighbors donate and sponsor school fundraisers, sports and support them where we can. Furthermore, as teams and extracurricular activities. Local busi- we come out of these challenging times, let us renesses are the ones that remember food orders member to always support our local businesses.
Students’ home life during pandemic by Hailey Christoff
Jaiden Herald
Co-Editor-in-Chief
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April 2020
In-depth
I’ve been doing a lot of baking, art [like painting], doing my makeup and tons of chalk art. But, I mostly spend time with my family, and that’s really important with everything going on.”
- Emily Doud (11)
One memorable event that took place during this quarantine is the cancellation — not being able to see friends, family and having a normal graduation at the end of this year.”
- Kelsey Merry (10)
I hang out with my cousin by playing video games, talking and going on drives together. With my immediate family, one thing we do is watch church on the TV on Sunday and eat afterward.”
- Friederich Ostertag (11)
Closed businesses create high unemployment percentage Baylee Comer & Rita Nicholson Co-Editor-in-Chief & Staff Writer
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has forced many businesses to temporarily close their doors, but some businesses are deemed essential and are allowed to remain open. But what exactly defines a business as essential is not quite clear. According to “Business Insider,” each individual state has the power to decide which businesses are essential and which are not. However, there are some types of businesses that have been widely acknowledged as necessary to everyday life, such as grocery stores, gas stations and health care locations. Most recreational businesses have been determined as nonessential. The aforementioned includes places, such as movie theaters, shopping malls and gyms. Each state may view a business as essential, depending on its location. Some states have kept the liquor stores and some restaurants open, for instance. As many Americans are laid off or furloughed from their nonessential workplaces due to the virus, about 20 million people are filing for unemployment this week as of April 23. Many might think unemployment may only affect the
income flow of the household, but the loss of employment has a deeper impact than that. According to “The New York Times” columnist Binyamin Applebaum, even though one may eventually find a job, there are lasting impacts on the individual, family and health. Applebaum said an individual, who has lost their job, has a risk of developing depression. According to Pew Research Center, 38 percent of people unemployed longer than six months after the recession in 2010 said they felt they lost self-respect. Almost half of the people who were unemployed six months or more said the psychological impact of unemployment stained and impacted their relationships with other people. These numbers are slightly decreased when individuals were unemployed for less than three months or unemployed between three to five months. The longer an individual is unemployed, the more they feel the effects of it. Soon, the country will be reopened, but there will be phases to such reopening. The White House has put forth a reopening guideline which indicates how each phase is defined by the status the state must be, showing a decrease in the number of positive cases seen within the state. The White House assures these guidelines to be effective in reopening the country.
