Following along the stated lines, should all music creation be stopped, should artists only paint covid warnings, should sculptors only engrave monuments to the

Following along the stated lines, should all music creation be stopped, should artists only paint covid warnings, should sculptors only engrave monuments to the covid casualties? My point is, if art shouldn't stop because of the pandemic (and it shouldn't) then why should science? Just because a painting doesn't cure the plague, paintings and art provide pleasant distractions. This work can provide satiation to curiosity and perhaps the spinoff work can eventually be "useful" in some other way as well (I quoted useful because there is a deeper philosophic debate that could be had about utility here).