> the government for being unwilling to pay people to stay home The difficulty here is that there are some truly essential services, and there are some busines

> the government for being unwilling to pay people to stay home The difficulty here is that there are some truly essential services, and there are some businesses that will die if not attended to, and we can't simply just let that all fall apart or people will starve. The government does actually have to grapple with questions like that, and even the best government will necessarily accept medical deaths to prevent a larger number of starvation deaths in the short term, or mass poverty in the long term. The trick is adequately figuring out what is an 'essential service'. Really, it's more like figuring out what's inessential.... I'm lucky enough to be a Canadian and the CERB benefit has helped family members and friends who work in inessential industries like tourism that have been hurt badly by this. I support programs to help with that so those folks don't become poor. But no amount of money is going to let us close grocery stores, at least not without some other food logistics system in place.