COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

St. Widge said

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.

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It doesn't need to be every household, just the un or underemployed. The challenge will be the small businesses that can't survive if they can't open and how we address that. I think that would be far more expensive to save than keeping money in people's pockets and it also has the biggest long term economic impact (permanent loss of jobs).

I know I sound like a broken record, but the answer is to follow the White House metrics for reopening. They are solid, attainable, and a good middle ground. It is so odd to me that they seem to be completely out of the discussion as if it wasn't ever evaluated and a massive plan put together on the taxpayer's dime. Talk about government waste (pretending we would ever pay attention to something so reasonable).