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

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).

I'm convinced that a lot of the government waste that's out there is because people are often idiots and don't properly utilize the resources the government provides. In other words, it's not the government wasting resources, but rather states, and people who essentially throw the money away.

Sure, the government, at any level, has it's share of inefficiencies, but that's not unusual in any large organization.