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Can you provide citations to which countries exactly you're referring to by the phrase "most countries?"

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-seeks-to-limit-coronavirus-crisis-with-unprecedented-offers-to-pay-private-sector-salaries/2020/03/24/1f099a5a-6abe-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-seeks-to-... > France, Germany, Denmark, Britain and others have decided to take over the payrolls of struggling companies, so that workers don’t get laid off. The hope is that by paying people to stay home, governments can slow the virus’s spread while also averting an economic depression. > Since many European countries had similar social safety net programs already, albeit in far more limited form, the salary supports were relatively easy to expand, almost literally overnight in many places, amid widespread consensus. When they imposed their economically devastating lockdowns, countries were thus able to signal to workers that their livelihoods would remain intact and to businesses that they wouldn’t immediately implode.
  • DuskStar 6y ago
    > France, Germany, Denmark, Britain and others have decided to take over the payrolls of struggling companies Didn't the US largely do this too, via a forgivable loan to companies?
    • ceejayoz 6y ago
      Sorta. It's only partially forgivable, the rules are complex, and it ran out of the first round of funds in under two weeks.