Even more than the “end of money”, the consequence would have been the potential “end of monetary policy”, with the return to a pure exchange economy or the loss of central banks’ monopolistic supply of base money that technology would have made possible.
2 For information on the impact of COVID-19 on communities around the country, see Federal Reserve System,  FedListens: Perspectives from the Public (PDF) (Federal Reserve System, June 2020); and Claire Kramer Mills and Jessica Battisto, “Double Jeopardy: COVID-19’s Concentrated Health and Wealth Effects in Black Communities, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (PDF)," Brief (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, August 2020).