Exactly. Covering wages would have been a great investment -- preserving countless businesses that would be irreplaceable, or infeasible to start again. As life

Exactly. Covering wages would have been a great investment -- preserving countless businesses that would be irreplaceable, or infeasible to start again. As life resumed, the businesses would be right there, immediately ready to go, serve their markets, pay their workers, pay their taxes, pay their landlords, preserve the equity of their owners, and resume community roles. Instead they're gone forever -- because such an approach is seen by a substantial cohort of Americans as an undeserved handout and moral hazard.