I implore those of you at risk of losing where you live in the next two-three (potentially more) months in a freeze start contacting your representatives and tell them to support cash transfers. I've long been an advocate of something called Universal Basic Income, but if you know of former 2020 Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, it's similar to what he argues for. Money prior to working conditions. This is something we will need from a technological front, but there's also humanitarian reasons for it. And clearly, in this climate, it's needed for a pandemic.
Demand your politicians back Jason Furman's (he's been an opponent of UBI for reference, so for him to turn is to show this is Serious Time) idea of $2,000 per adult every month for the next three months, and $1,000 per child in that same period. Because people are open to the idea of cash transfers and there's a lot of ideas about it, we have to be careful what we have to support. Currently, this dumpster fire of a White House is saying they support it, but also say it's not a flat amount for people so it will range "based on need." This already gives me pause: I can imagine those unemployed prior to this crisis may not even qualify, making the entire point of this effort pointless.
In this climate, you have to give people stuck at home for one reason or another money, or else you risk entering a depression, not a recession. It may be hard to wrap one's head around, but this is already groomed to worse than 2008, by significant scales.
Wishing all of you well, friends and family included. Hope we all come out on the other side as a better people, collectively.