My country is a third-world one where many jobs barely pay a livable salary to begin with and poverty rates are through the roof. No stimulus checks here, and that's far down a lot of people's priority list given the plethora of issues the country has with infrastructure, health care, education, and employment, among other things.
A $1,200 stimulus check might not seem like much, but many of us who have experienced life in third-world countries with barely any social security find it quite significant for a state to do something like that for its citizens, even if there's ample room for improvement.