Today is day one of COVID-19 alert level 3. We move down one alert level today thanks to the efforts of roughly 5 million New Zealanders who've stayed at home to break the transmission of the virus and to save lives. The success of our four-week lockdown—we've got ourselves to a position of no current widespread and undetected community transmission in New Zealand—is attributable to nothing less than the collective action of New Zealanders determined to eliminate a virus that threatened both lives and also livelihoods. What greater example of a nation is there than one which unites in the defence of our most vulnerable and, ultimately, in defence of our way of life?