[fhayek]

Yes. Businesses went under, unfortunately. But what should happen now is free market capitalism. That ALWAYS works. Open up. Stop the stupid regulations. Allow the market to reset and innovate. I feel sorry for the people whose life's work evaporated. But what we need now is not stimulus checks, but for capitalism to work. If you need a stimulus, say that new business won't have income tax levied for two (five?) years. Let entrepreneurs go wild. Better than any government program.

[DoughtyOne]

When those thousands of businesses went under, so did the
capital it took to run them.

Life savings were wiped out. Sure Capitalism is the way to
go, but thousands of people who supplied the nation with
workers will no longer be able to do so.

A lot of wealth just evaporated.