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What exactly does a blanket cash handout solve? Plenty of people still work and 30% of the population are old. Old people do not need more money to buy up masks, ozeki cups, and go to pachinco.
More logically would be to limit testing, not spread panic, urge people to stay home and pay those who cannot earn due to the virus. A strategic stimulus not a blanket one is what the people need.
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