Better to act early than late

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

When non-essential business are sanitizing like crazy, it’s probably time to close until the danger passes. If you want to see some projections of waiting too long to isolate ourselves, check out this page: https://covidactnow.org/state/NH

Here’s my thinking:

If you believe sanitizing is critical, you know there’s a good chance that people who are infected are coming to your business. This increases the risk of spreading the virus. If that’s not the case, why would you bother sanitizing so much?

Closing your business too late could mean the health care system is overwhelmed or overwhelmed earlier than it could have been. Some preventable deaths will occur.

Closing your business too early will inconvenience some people and will likely adversely affect your own and your employees’ financial situations. Yes, it might hurt financially, but how many lives could you help save?

If you owned a non-essential business, what would you do?

1 Comment

  1. Pat

    Maybe :
    Sell a Password for 6wk online course.
    Different password/course.
    Change the password to keep clients…
    During Tough times people help each other.😇
    You have “paid it forward” &
    helped us in many ways.
    It will come back to you.
    Rollie will help keep the spirits up.
    God Bless your good family!