Everyone seems to be acting as if this was ever going to be a permanent thing rather than an extraordinary measure for extraordinary times. The people who shou

Everyone seems to be acting as if this was ever going to be a permanent thing rather than an extraordinary measure for extraordinary times. The people who should have something to say here are the ones making less who didn't lose their "essential" jobs. That points at an even simpler solution: toss some free shit to everyone. Yes, it's ultimately paid for by everyone's taxes, etc, etc, but there's no way around this pandemic having a very high economic cost. It's just a question of tackling it actively and having that cost go towards productive programs, or paying to deal with the disaster that's resulting from our government being incompetent.