Commercial theatre is always a risky endeavour because it is all private capital and because you do rely solely on box-office income to not only meet your weekly needs, but to return that initial capital. We're facing increasing risk because of rolling shutdowns that are happening in other markets because of COVID-19 illness. They're having to shut down for a week or more at a time and then reopen. We're also seeing increased risk because of the lack of insurance, which we've mentioned in our briefings and in our conversation today, where we can no longer get coverage for business interruption due to pandemic-related loss.
We're also seeing increased risk because our vendors and other people we work with are also feeling pressure and experiencing increased risk. We're being asked for guarantees of months at a time of weekly rentals from our vendors who are having to purchase equipment in order to fulfill our needs.
There's more and more risk, but fewer and fewer assurances that we'll be able to continue operating. If you add capacity restrictions on top of that, the entire endeavour really does just crumble because we need the opportunity to operate at a hundred per cent to be able to meet our weekly needs.