Strike dollar from the title and it'll still be true...
These are anecdotes, but I don't see how all of that new money would not have contribute to price inflation, but with a delay because the immediate velocity of money was low. If you want to point me to some of the graphs you're thinking I'll certainly give them a look with an open mind, but denying that fundamental dynamic feels close to the opposing propaganda that's always maintaining that monetary inflation has no bearing on price inflation.
It's hard to draw firm conclusions because pandemic inflation is fundamentally different than ordinary inflation. Still, even though the supply side of things was unusual (caused by product shortages due to COVID), we still wouldn't have had any inflation if we'd skipped the stimulus entirely and allowed incomes and consumption to decline. It was our determination to keep people whole that produced stable consumption desires in the face of product shortages, leading to inflationary pressure.
My guess is that a stimulus sufficient to address a recession is almost always going to produce some unwanted inflation. We just don't have the capability to fine tune things precisely enough to avoid it, and it's better to err on the side of maintaining growth even if that risks more inflation than we'd like. I like the tradeoff we made for COVID (strong growth, too much inflation) way more than the tradeoff we made for the Great Recession (slow growth, normal inflation).
Still extremely high by global standards considering everything.
e.g. Hollande in France was at less than -80% not that many years ago.
Just because a group of people approve of things happening doesn't make it a good year. My estranged family does and they don't have a grasp on the notion of cause and effect nor do they have an acceptable level of reading comprehension- I do not value their opinion in the slightest l.