I was referring to the period when the economy was shut down including stores, restaurants, schools, ships and planes, travel, theatres, entertainment, sports, shipping, and other industries. It forced the economy into a major recession when the Fed had to print trillions to bail out individuals and companies. That kicked off the inflation we're now seeing and huge debt and deficits that we all will have to pay back. Employment has not yet recovered. There are still major bottlenecks to shipping and semiconductor manufacturers hurting the auto and many other industries.
Covid had major negative effects on both health and the economy. Political administrators on both the Federal as well as the states had to address both issues.
In my neck of the woods stores were never shut down, restaurants continued with take only, schools continued with remote classes, sports continued, but only on TV, shipping continued...but was slowed down by workers getting infected with Covid.
Bottom line, if measures were not taken, the economy would still be drastically affected by Covid spreading and killing everything in its path. Tell me, if that restaurant down the street allowed you to go indoors and have a pizza, would you and your wife walk down and enjoy your dinner out when say thousands of people all around you were dieing from Covid? Do you think that production worker would go to work if his fellow employees were dropping dead around him?
