No. People are reacting to this virus by actively choosing to avoid conferences, travel, restaurants, movies, shops, and sporting events. They aren’t doing it because they’ve run out of money or are trying to save. They’re doing it because they don’t want to get sick. The Fed can’t will people back out into normal life by cutting interest rates.
And that’s why the market is basically flat today after this announcement. The market has nearly universally reacted to this rate cut with ambivalence.
When is the last time the Fed's spastic behavior had a sure and long-term positive impact on the economy from the average person's perspective? I specify this perspective because the macro measures used by central banks are not always accurate indicators of the general welfare. Central banks are good for primarily one purpose, and that is ensuring the economic dominance of the groups controlling them. This has been their purpose throughout history(2), and I don't see that changing now. This most recent move is at best a platitude.
All that said, I agree with your sentiment that blanket statements, especially in the highly dynamic field of economics, tend not to be accurate or helpful.
(1) Danielle DiMartino Booth, Fed Up
(2) Look into the history of the Banque Royale of France 1716-1720 and the history of the Bank of England up into the 18th century. The long and short of it is these banks were used as mechanisms by the elite to retain control over currency systems which would otherwise have given too much power to the public for their liking.
You’re going to have to qualify that. I’ve been doing this shit for thirty years, including writing logistics and other supply chain software. Do not prioritize my opinion just because I write software; prioritize the opinions of, oh I don’t know, maybe COOs? The buyer for electronic parts at my employer? Anyone, anyone but software engineers so arrogant that they think they have an opinion worthy of listening simply because... hell, I can’t even guess why a software engineer would think that.
Care to substantiate it? Why? At the very least businesspeople should be more qualified because that's what they deal with? Just because software engineers have to think for a living and do some math sometimes doesn't mean they are experts in every field where that is used...