Uh, what do you think happened to small businesses in 2020? If anything we're seeing a boom in small business dynamism today - more applications for small businesses to be formed in 2022 than anytime in recorded history, except for 2021 [0]

[0] https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/small-business-applicants...

I'm not sure where you live, but I've been down main street over the weekend, and every storefront on it seems to be open for business, just like they were in 2019.

Some of the players changed, but they've also changed since 2015 and 2011, yet I don't hear anyone complaining about either of those years.

If I live to 2073, I fully expect to still keep hearing the meme that half of the small businesses in this country permanently closed in 2020. It'll be as nonsensical then as it is today.