[mnm1]

The $600 per week is definitely sustainable as are all the other payments that are going directly to people. If we can afford all the unrelated stuff you mention and a ton you didn't, we can afford to help people directly, which is the absolute number one priority.

The real pandemic is people dying and being disabled, not debt. Saying it's debt is callous and cruel as people are dying and becoming disabled all around us. How is it possible to have no empathy at all like this?

[blacksmith_tb]

It's possible to have empathy for people who can't make ends meet, too. The death toll is terrible, clearly. As of today we're at almost 165K dead in the US, but that's out of a population of 330M, so about 1 in 2000. The economic fallout is orders of magnitude greater than that[1] certainly at least tens of millions of people impacted (but not dead, at least).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-1...