> but keeping the scheme means productivity won't recover as people able to work productively are sat at home doing nothing. Productivity will recover when bu

> but keeping the scheme means productivity won't recover as people able to work productively are sat at home doing nothing. Productivity will recover when businesses can use resources productively. It's either keep the scheme running until quarantine measures are reduced enough to allow businesses to start ramping back up and productivity increases again, or remove the scheme and push people to unemployment which is worse for productivity. If the government is daft enough to stop the scheme before the quarantine measures are reduced we're in for a shit-show of a decade.