Stimulated not to work?

But, as Jones cautions, "therein lies the rub" - over the next 5 to 6 months or so, before a big government aid package can be passed, "the virus will continue to be a massive public health and economic headwind. And, without an aggressive fiscal impulse during the height of an American winter, the pandemic could theoretically become as virulent and disruptive as it was 6-7 months ago."

Bloomberg colleague Richard Jones quote on the future of the stimulus. I caught this because the idea seems that stimulus will keep us from working. Stimulus is normally supposed to encourage us to work.

Someone gots to mansplain this to me.