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Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Show me where there was ever a government-mandated total shutdown of the economy. Go ahead, I'm waiting.

You're equating normal rational people trying to stay home and stay away from COVID as much as possible pre-vaccine with the government forcing them away from businesses. It was never like that, except for restaurants in some states and/or counties.

The PPP was not a handout to negate government-enforced shutdowns, but market-driven precipitous decreases in business across many different sectors, due to people hunkering down as much as possible waiting for the vaccine. This is why there was so much pent-up 'spending money' to later drive inflation. You'd know this except you and everyone you know probably thought, and continues to think, COVID is a bunch of Chinese nanobots installing 5G reception in your brains, and you can't stomach the thought that a vast cross-section of society took precautions, potentially sparing themselves later vascular dementia but devastating the economy in the short term.

You're acting like the PPP was just money The Government had laying around for a rainy day

Hilarious