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I'm not very knowledgeable about macroeconomics and this is basically just a train of thought. I've thought occasionally about this stuff before our current predicament, but now I'm really thinking about it. We print currency on pieces of paper that have no worth except that we say they have worth, and now the rest of our currency is stored on computers. (Actually, the piece of paper we print our money on might be worth more now that we're out of TP). Now that we're in a pandemic I keep thinking, we have enough food to feed everyone in the U.S. and we have enough energy to heat/cool our houses. Assuming the farmers, the people who ship food, and the people who work at power plants don't go on strike. So what needs to happen to freeze everything for several months so we don't have mass homelessness and starvation? It seems those things shouldn't need to happen, except that we are dependent on currency. It seems to me we need to freeze utilities and rent payments, and cities need to freeze landlord and home ownership taxes, and somehow the fed needs to help the cities/states.