The Impact of the Pandemic on the Economy

The view was that the pandemic basically stopped the world, as it did. Governments had to say, well, if we stop the world, we have to pay people. So we've got to borrow. And if we got to borrow, we'vegot to reduce the rate of interest and make it possible for us to borrow. I don't think so. The pandemic has had a greater impact on the economy because at the end of the day, the economy is only the way we live. It's really the study of others. True. Yeah, yeah. As we say at the beginning of the show...Yeah, it's a study of humans, right? So has the