Covid printer money worked just fine, in terms of allowing businesses to stay afloat while not being able to operate at normal capacity. But it was never set up

Covid printer money worked just fine, in terms of allowing businesses to stay afloat while not being able to operate at normal capacity. But it was never set up as a long-term sustainable program. There may well be things to learn about how well and in what ways UBI might work from it, but there are way too many unusual circumstances surrounding how government policy helped economies navigate a once-in-100-year pandemic to extrapolate many general principles from.