Yes, of course, I understand that. But in the middle of a recession that becomes Sophie's choice: do you raise rates to curb inflation while killing the chance of a recovery?
Still, this isn't the stagflation of the 1970s. While there may be underlying problems, the main issue is that Covid shut down parts of the economy, which also meant shutting down parts of employment. The trick really isn't to avoid inflation. The trick is to make it back to approximately normal without killing too many businesses and bankrupting too many families (while also not killing too many people). If inflation happens as a result, but we get back to a healthy economy, then we can worry about inflation. For the next one or two years, I don't think that inflation is the issue to focus on.