>>Typically small time businesses like this are highly tied with personal finances. You can't just "close up shop" when you have a $50k loan and no job lined up.

Understandable, of course. Some of my sentiment was informed by the article-in-question's supposition that workers were being too demanding in terms of wages and a plea for sympathy that rang hollow in terms of her arguments (IMO at least). Workers do not owe anything to anybody - if a more prodigious opportunity presents itself, it ought to be taken.

The pain points are going to become more apparent as we try and sort through a new standard that has upended much of what we took for granted emotionally, socially and culturally (including morality and finances in the latter).

Wishing your family good luck.