Covid-19 is having a devastating affect on everybody including small business owners, part time working students, hourly employees etc. Cancelling rent, mortgage, student loan payments and the essential utilities for the duration of the Covid-19 virus pandemic would relieve financial pressure, allow citizens that have to stay home from work without the added concern and stress of losing their homes or livlyhood,  and also limit the spread of the virus.  Our federal government should act in a similar fashion to Italy's and mandate the suspension of rent and mortgage payments during the Coronavirus pandemic.