[txlurker]

The $600/week bonus should have been to those essential workers that still had to go out everyday and expose themselves to the virus. It should have been a combat pay style bonus.

Some essential workers did and are still getting hazard pay. I imagine most of those unemployed people would have loved to be an "essential" worker during the shutdown instead of losing their job.

[KobraKai]

The fact that the unemployed are choosing to stay home and collect benefits proves that your point is incorrect.