COVID-19 hasn’t been easy. It’s been tough on all of us quarantining at home, it’s been even tougher on first responders and hospitals dealing directly with the pandemic, and it’s been tough on small businesses everywhere. Businesses that have taken years to build are sadly at risk of losing everything. For this reason, I’ve mapped out how you can support some local Boston businesses below.

My favorite restaurants are closed. All my classes have been switched to remote-learning. I am forced to stay 6 ft. away from my loved ones, AND I haven’t been out of the house in days. I admit, this whole quarantine thing is starting to take its toll on me. Seems like the world around us has stopped, and we’re all forced to stop with it.

I saw a tweet the other day (while sitting and scrolling through my feed on my couch, of course) that, in a nutshell, pointed out that the coronavirus shows that everything we humans do is merely a social construct and can be instantly stopped if we want it to be. Knowing now that cities are empty, most businesses are shut down, and that my usually