You seem to forget that [ insert deeply ideological sloganeering / extremely arguable value judgment ].

I wish everyone was addressing trolling face on, like you. Thank you.

The financial stakeholders in these banks and in Europe as a whole have a powerful motivation to contain this pandemic.

Yes, the ECB is there to support and regulate the banks, that is its job. There is a very good reason for this: if you don't have stable and healthy banks you don't have a functioning economy.

People of your ideological ilk see this as some sort of negative but it's absolutely vital. You may think of banks as evil and having a lot of money, but that money is not theirs but "the people's."

Many banks certainly don't tend to act like it is the people's money.

The ECB can (and has in the past) given out cheap money under the condition that this is used for loans. They could do that again easily.

Loans to companies to buy back their own stock. XD