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Originally Posted by Crowbob

Waitaminit.

Who says there was a requirement to have been directly impacted by the Chinese virus? Millions of people are retired whose incomes remained unmolested by the lockdowns and they did not have the virus. Are they not legally entitled to those checks? And what about the even more millions whose checks were direct-deposited? Are they supposed to write out a check back to the government?

A retired person who watched their retirement accounts decrease by close to 1/2 was pretty seriously impacted by this. A person who has died 1-2 years ago, not so much.