How has your city or town center changed during the Corona crisis and inflation and even before (deindustrialization,shop closures,online shopping)?

In the last 5 years things have changed so much. There's almost no small businesses. They all got gobbled up during COVID. If you can't use the internet for purchases you are shit out of luck. Now they are pushing for a federal crypto currency. What happens to the hundreds of thousands with no credit cards or bank account? Do they just round those people up because they are not good for society. Would the people in Red States even care if a Governor like DeSantis made homeless people disappear?