This is why I dislike that some have characterized the bill as a "stimulus." The point of stimulus efforts is to stimulate the economy, implying that it's ready

This is why I dislike that some have characterized the bill as a "stimulus." The point of stimulus efforts is to stimulate the economy, implying that it's ready to be stimulated. It's not. The $6 trillion is life support. We've put the economy into a medically induced coma. The $6 trillion is what we need to keep the economy alive, barely, while we try to get Covid-19 under control. Once we've done that, we'll need separate stimulus to get out of a depression.