If the entire purpose of it was to prevent riots during a financial collapse then why did the elites in big business and mass media strongly support the George Floyd riots? It was certainly a clever way of allowing Democrats to do grassroots organizing during a pandemic that also happened to be a presidential election year, but they made special exceptions to say that protesting was fine and that was when many people (including myself) woke up and stopped taking the virus seriously. I guess they could have thought it was a necessary step in order to get their people into the White House?