Recalling the moment she had to tell her young employees they were out of a job still brings Barb Harvey to tears months later.The impact of the coronavirus pandemic is still being felt in towns along Tasmania's Bass Highway
"It's still stressful, if we have a second wave … I don't know what that would really mean, we're running day-to-day basically."Owner of Deloraine's Bush Inn Hotel, Peter Sheehan, said it was frightening when in late March the State Government first ordered Tasmanians to stay at home."We shut down the bar and restaurant and also closed the accommodation.
"We stayed open and kept five staff on. Now we're back to having around nine staff on so it's getting better," owner David Hausknecht said.For Deloraine salmon farm, 41 South Tasmania, the pandemic had been like a "guillotine" to the business's bottom line, owner Ben Pyka said.While supermarkets are still selling Mr Pyka's salmon, he said the farm relied heavily on interstate tourists.
Not just small business. Bwhahahah, still funny …
small businesses like cafes restaurants will not be able to operate unless COVID19 is eliminated in Australia. Period. this why we have to put the hard yards in now. this is going to around like this for 6 years.