Spike is Best

By isolating, you are preserving human life. You are a citizen preserving the life of your country.

You should be getting paid for it by the government, and paid well.

Airlines and cruise ships have been positive vectors of the virus. They should not get anything.

Not one penny should be going to private banks, loaning, stock buy back, billionaire CEO's. They use that bail out money to create more debt in order to strip a nation that has been made totally vulnerable. As Michael Hudson put it: turning the country into a grab bag.

The protection from the talons of debt is what's especially required in a pandemic crisis, not the creation of more of it, inviting every bird of prey onto the people who are doing their right duty of preserving life by isolating and changing their lives.

The first economic measures should be their monetary protection, precisely right now, and this would be a means of honouring their protection of human life (self isolation/distancing) right now, instead of the empty hypocrisy of we-are-the-world thank you essential workers bullshit google logos. The secondary benefit of that is that the economy wouldn't crash.

The money that ought to be paid to the people isolating themselves should be guaranteed to have full purchasing power by the refusal to give a larger sum to the banks and corporations.

The creation of debt is a crime against humanity.