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Surely that only applies to those paying themselves through a limited company. Which means they are employed and their PAYE wage is already covered if they put themselves on furlough.
I think there are 2 things being confused here.

Self-employed people don't pay dividends, as you say. But there is an issue with those who have a one-person Limited Company, and who might define themselves as s/e. They normally pay themselves a low salary, at the NI threshold, and take the rest of their money as dividends.

They can furlough themselves, but the most they will receive from HMRC is about £575 per month. That's obviously not enough, which is where the suggestion that their help should be based on dividends comes from.

That, in itself, is fraught with difficulty, but it does make some sense.