Over the past seven weeks, every one of us has protected and cared for every one of us. But none have done more than those we have come to know as our essential workers. These are the people who left their families every day and risked their own health every day so that the rest of us could be cared for and get everything we needed—like the ingredients of sourdough bread: our nurses and our pharmacists, doctors and midwives, paramedics and social workers, aged-care and community workers and caregivers more generally, our police officers, our customs officers, those who worked to get our homeless into emergency housing, our farmers and food producers, our delivery drivers, our supermarket staff and dairy owners—the people who, it turns out, are actually the ones that make our economy run.