[refurb]

Are you really surprised?

I think you'd be very hard pressed to find people willing to turn down free money.

It's not like are lying to gov't to get it. They qualify, so why not take it.

[DangerousPie]

Don't you have to claim that you are negatively affected by COVID to get it? But I guess arguably everyone can claim that to some degree.

[refurb]

Looks like there are different programs, but for the payroll loans, I don't see anything like that in the criteria.[1]

[1]https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relie...

[akatechis]

No. I got my money in my account yesterday, about an hour after my employeer direct-deposited my paycheck.