The point is that that one month's rent may buy enough time for the economy to stabilize. Make no mistake, unless everything picks back up nearly instantly (ak

The point is that that one month's rent may buy enough time for the economy to stabilize. Make no mistake, unless everything picks back up nearly instantly (aka "when pigs fly") people will lose jobs and miss payments and be evicted and all sorts of other bad things just like in every other downturn. The point of the $1k (or whatever amount) is to buy a month for the COVID19 situation to stabilize thereby minimizing the downturn, or at least that's how it works in theory.