So it must be very clear to all that the next 2 years are going to be very stop start; with no overseas travel and our Government’s money printing press working 36 hours a day.

New Zealanders have had our choice of living with or without Covid made for us. Corporates can work from home, Government and Council employees get paid regardless, students don't really care, the seniors dont work and just want to be safe, and essential workers are fine too.

That leaves a minority affected who can't run their business on a stop start basis. That minority operate shops, gyms, tourist businesses, bars, restaurants - the places we all go for socialising and relaxation and to satisfy our capitalist tendancies of buying stuff!

Its clear that for short periods society can operate without supporting that minority group, but that minority group can't survive.

So Government, you dont have to allocate that freshly printed money evenly, you just have to allocate it to the minority of New Zealanders that provides majority of New Zealand with its social, spending and leisure activities. It’s shops and small business that really suffer yet there is no targeted help for them. Stop supporting big corporates who may make a slightly lesser return for their shareholders and start supporting small business so they dont go broke. Small business didn't choose to live without Covid…you did.