Via Jessica Hult
30 days is complete, since our governor began closing businesses across North Carolina and deciding which businesses are essential or otherwise. My own Carteret County has suffered 2 Covid-19 related deaths since the self-isolation period began. While those 2 deaths are tragic and heartbreaking- they are hardly enough to warrant a continuation of self-isolation. Small businesses across the country are being hit extremely hard, including my own.
My business is boarding and training dogs. No one is traveling; therefore, we have no boarding clients. Our training is a hands-on activity. No one is training. We have no money coming in at all. We reluctantly applied for the EDIL and the PPP loans….. all we’ve heard are crickets. We have kept our 3 onsite employees employed and paid during these past 30 days. We have kept the 8 dogs abandoned with us fed and clean. We have been able to do this by draining our life savings. My husband is almost 60, I am almost 50. We cannot do this any longer- you will find our faces in the bread lines soon. I speak for hundreds, if not thousands, of business owners stuck in similar situations as we currently find ourselves.
We do NOT want any government help; we NEED for our state and our nation to get back to work.
Every single one of us understands we are going to have to alter how we do business. Every single one of us understands there is now a new “normal”. We are not criminals. We are not infants in need of nanny government. We understand the risks. We are committed to doing business in a safe manner that lessens the risk for those around us. Please- those who are truly immunocompromised should really stay home, those who are truly terrified should also stay home. Those who are asking for the shutdown to continue have really no understanding of what they are asking….or if they do understand, they are completely unaware of exactly how dangerous this economic situation will become. Our great Republic is the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave; not land of the lockdown and home of the fearful.
Reopen Carteret County now. Reopen NC now.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear; but a Spirit of Power, and of Love, and a Sound Mind.
YiS,
Jessica Hult
Donnie's wife
Owner/operator K9 NC Training, Inc dba Hadnot Creek Kennel
300 Hadnot Farm Rd, Swansboro, NC 28584
IWLA White Oak River Chapter past President
NC-WRC Hunter's Ed Instructor
252-342-0591 -c
252-393-8952 -h"
I've been asked to share my letter - I've used my letter for all the county commissioners, plus our legislators, and the governor...and also now the sheriff. BTW- I received a big thank you from the Sheriff staff who sent my correspondence on to Asa. Feel free to borrow anything in here that might be applicable to your situation in writing your own letters. Also- feel free to contact me for anything. I'll be in Raleigh again next week."I am writing today as owner/operator of an Eastern NC business, deemed essential, open since 1984. We, our family and our onsite employees, agreed to self-isolate for 30 days due to Covid-19. We did NOT agree to turning North Carolina into a tyrannical police state where self-isolation is repeatedly referred to as a more sinister “lockdown”.
30 days is complete, since our governor began closing businesses across North Carolina and deciding which businesses are essential or otherwise. My own Carteret County has suffered 2 Covid-19 related deaths since the self-isolation period began. While those 2 deaths are tragic and heartbreaking- they are hardly enough to warrant a continuation of self-isolation. Small businesses across the country are being hit extremely hard, including my own.
My business is boarding and training dogs. No one is traveling; therefore, we have no boarding clients. Our training is a hands-on activity. No one is training. We have no money coming in at all. We reluctantly applied for the EDIL and the PPP loans….. all we’ve heard are crickets. We have kept our 3 onsite employees employed and paid during these past 30 days. We have kept the 8 dogs abandoned with us fed and clean. We have been able to do this by draining our life savings. My husband is almost 60, I am almost 50. We cannot do this any longer- you will find our faces in the bread lines soon. I speak for hundreds, if not thousands, of business owners stuck in similar situations as we currently find ourselves.
We do NOT want any government help; we NEED for our state and our nation to get back to work.
Every single one of us understands we are going to have to alter how we do business. Every single one of us understands there is now a new “normal”. We are not criminals. We are not infants in need of nanny government. We understand the risks. We are committed to doing business in a safe manner that lessens the risk for those around us. Please- those who are truly immunocompromised should really stay home, those who are truly terrified should also stay home. Those who are asking for the shutdown to continue have really no understanding of what they are asking….or if they do understand, they are completely unaware of exactly how dangerous this economic situation will become. Our great Republic is the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave; not land of the lockdown and home of the fearful.
Reopen Carteret County now. Reopen NC now.
2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear; but a Spirit of Power, and of Love, and a Sound Mind.
YiS,
Jessica Hult
Donnie's wife
Owner/operator K9 NC Training, Inc dba Hadnot Creek Kennel
300 Hadnot Farm Rd, Swansboro, NC 28584
IWLA White Oak River Chapter past President
NC-WRC Hunter's Ed Instructor
252-342-0591 -c
252-393-8952 -h"
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