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Income for one or two days, sharply reduced, is very hurtful to their bottom line.

Meaning "ability to pay rent or mortgage, provide for kids." Lest "bottom line" mean only mega-million corporations.

(Sorry, every month I have a bottom line. I look at my expenses, I look at my income, the balance must be >= zero. It's me and the company of me as a public school teacher, plus expenses and minimum payments to creditors; I am an economic unit and follow the same rules as others that are much larger, esp. since I don't get, at present, government subsidies or bail-outs. Yes, there are more pleasant names for those, but functionally they're the same as for large corporations and it's just unpleasant to see them termed thus.)