Hundreds of thousands of small businesses have closed, never to open again.

Small businesses exhaust their reserves and are forced to lay off the team of workers they have assembled.

It must act to organize our collective response to the attack, to organize needed medical and protective gear, to figure out testing and tracing strategies, to distribute health resources, to galvanize an all-out press for a remedy It must also act to limit the damage — to keep families in their homes, small businesses in their offices or stores, workers in their jobs.

In recent days, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated that he feels no “urgency” to aid states and localities, suggesting that states could go bankrupt, and that the crisis was largely one of “blue-state” mismanagement.

They are Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative, small business owners and small farmers, meat packers and more.