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

The reality is the economic impact of a Depression that would make The Great Depression blush is steeper than the impact of having to raise taxes in a few years to help pay this down. I'm not a fan of excessive government spending, but this is one of 4 or 5 times in our nation's history that it's warranted and in fact preferable.

Kick this can down the road because the alternative is staggering.

However, I don't think there's a viable way to save small businesses if we don't do a phased re-opening that allows them to at least generate enough revenue to make it to the other side of this. It's too many people and too much money. We have to let them earn in some way.
We do need a lot of contact tracers which are all new positions that need to be filled. It's mostly phone and computer work, so I think companies running call centers and technical support centers could be paid by the government to temporarily convert to contact tracing centers. That's money the government has to spend anyhow as we start gearing back up.