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What countries didn’t print money and pay for furloughed employees in response to Covid-19 and lockdowns?

Many people in the West are scared of how governments and central banks have printed lots of money in response to the pandemic and are destroying the value of their cash. Unique to this economic crisis compared to others is how some of this money has been paid directly to furloughed employees. 

Are there any countries that didn’t print much money (if at all) and left their economies to try and recover by themselves? Are there any that didn’t pay for furloughed employees and left them to survive as best they could? In particular, what did China do?

Don’t post a comment criticising the more inhuman implications of my question (“letting the furloughed workers fend for themselves” etc). Feel free to comment about the humanitarian aspect if you can link it to some economic consequence or reality though. Hope that makes sense.
gpt
>Many people in the West are scared of how governments and central banks have printed lots of money in response to the pandemic and are destroying the value of their cash.

Modern economies with modern central banks *don't print money to finance the government*.

They print money to *keep* inflation at a stable level. And they have to print a lot of money because there are strong deflationary forces. Nobody is "destroying the value of their cash", rather they are just trying to keep it *stable* at the same levels we would see without the pandemic.