Invisible scars: 7 business owners, execs talk about pain of COVID-19, hopes for 2021 Updated Dec 29, 2020; Posted Dec 24, 2020 Lynn Le is the founder of Society Nine, which makes boxing equipment and martial arts-inspired apparel for women. Portland Business Journal Facebook Share By Portland Business Journal Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the 2010 pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis. This article is contributed by the The latter began on Feb. 28, when the first COVID-19 case in Oregon was reported. On March 12, Gov. Kate Brown ordered that no events with more than 250 people could be held for four weeks. The next day, Oregon schools closed for two weeks. An avalanche of stay-at-home orders, social distancing requirements, business closures, layoffs, eviction moratoriums, health care worker shortages and more crashed down upon us on a daily basis.