Forty thousand jobs were lost in April. That's 40,000 people: their families, their hopes, their purpose taken, their incomes reduced, their lives altered for ever. Tens of thousands more New Zealanders are predicted to lose their jobs in the coming months—tens of thousands more. Billions are predicted to be wiped from our economy. Those billions represent the hopes and aspirations of entrepreneurs, of small-business people, of young people entering the workforce for the first time, of families who may have wanted to do something extra—take on a mortgage, buy a first home—but will no longer be able to do it.