Good Morning fellow C&Cers and Searchers for What's Really Going On!

I own a small business I started 50 years ago. It's still small because it's an extremely niche business that sells equipment for specialty pharmaceutical research. But it's a nice little business and it easily weathered the 2008 fiscal mismanagement mess and the 2020 virus whatever it was/is. However, over the past six months sales are off 40%. This has never happened before. And, having spoken with other business owners that I associate with, business seems to be off about 30% all around, at least in my field. Just sayin'.