Rather than the flower trade having a downturn, what about all the people that planned weddings? A delayed wedding is apparently hardly a disaster, but what does it mean if nobody can get married for a half a year, what happens?
I think in most jurisdictions it's possible to get legally married, just not be celebrated in the traditional way.
So wedding celebrations have been delayed by 6 months or a year, well so what?
It's such a small thing to focus on and worry about when almost the whole global economy has been put on pause. There's almost nothing that hasn't been affected, the inability to immediately celebrate in a traditional over-the-top way is of such a minor consequence in comparison.
That's just as easily (or not!) answered the same as:
> So what about all the workers that cannot pay their mortgages now?
Well, my neighbor owns a flower shop, and she doesn't know if she'll make it. She was giving away the flowers to the neighbors for a while, so they wouldn't just go to waste, but I suppose she's run out now. She's dipped into her savings, but she's not sure how long that will last. Her bank screwed her over on the first round of PPE, so let's see what the second brings. She wonders why she can't open to serve customers curbside, like so many other businesses with questionable essential-ness can. Even then, who knows who would buy flowers, but a few customers are better than zero customers, I suppose. A people story.
Or course it matters. And the sum total of all that suffering, disruption, destruction is quite a lot to get your head around.
Weddings canceled in the US leading to massive supply line disruptions, and ultimately, starving families in Africa.
I think it all matters a bit. That you can think of a worse problem is hardly consoling.
In NYS Cuomo issued an Executive Order allowing people to obtain a marriage license remotely and allowing clerks to perform ceremonies via video conference.