Now, I doubt that the sum total of anxiety in the world has been higher at any point since the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Although extraordinary measures such as society-wide lockdowns are a vital tool in our fight against a deadly enemy, they do little to ease the sense that people have of living in uncertain and unpredictable times. The stress of living through a pandemic has multiplied for the tens of thousands of Kiwis who have or will become unemployed as a result of the crisis and of the responses taken. With events moving so quickly, it's easy to lose sight of the future in the constant scramble to stay up to date with the present. When you don't know what the next week holds, let alone the next year, it can be very easy to feel like you're living in the end times, and the scenes that we've seen in supermarkets around the country are just one symptom of those feelings. No one who truly believes that the future is going to be all right buys 200 rolls of toilet paper. People are looking to our Government for reassurance that we are going to come out the other side of this OK, and I want New Zealanders to know that we are looking out for them and we will do everything that we can to make sure that things are OK. 