> “Getting cash into the economy” is the solution to a demand shortfall recession. There wasn’t a demand shortfall. There was nothing to stimulate because every

> “Getting cash into the economy” is the solution to a demand shortfall recession. There wasn’t a demand shortfall. There was nothing to stimulate because everything was closed. Instead of "cash into the economy" for the sake of stopping a recession based on a demand shortfall, you should look at it as "cash into the economy" to prevent individuals who no longer had any income, and companies which no longer had customers from going bankrupt. Covering the mess of mass bankruptcies, hunger and homelessness was going to be drastically harder. Potential or real inflation are absolutely worth it as tradeoffs.