You may be right, but I'm a bit skeptical. So who is saying that we don't have the resources to prop up the economy for say 3 or 4 months?
I ask because it was suggested above that the last stimulus could have been used to give every American household $5,500 per month for three months and the next proposed stimulus could have been used to give every American household $6,500 per month for the next three months. I don't know if the numbers are right, but it seems to me that would allow us not got go into a deep depression and allow even those who can't work at all enough to get buy until this thing is really down to almost nothing.
Would that be a good idea? I don't know but I also don't know that anyone has said that it can't be done or that it would be a bad idea for the economy. I mean, it doesn't some much different than the New Deal which is what ended the Great Depression (along with WWII).