The stimulus checks were months ago. If the status quo was so fragile that two $1000-ish checks to every working/middle class American was enough to shatter it, then it probably deserved to be broken.
Second round: $600 per adult, $600 per child
Third round: $1,400 per adult, $1,400 per child
(https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/what-to-know-about-all-thr...)
So, as an example, a family with two adults and three kids would have received $13,900 in total.
Morals/politics etc aside, I think supperberg's argument makes sense.
It obviously depends a lot on the location.