In Aus, it looks like the question of who gets government financial assistance in response to the covid crisis will be determined entirely by the job keeper threshold test. This is for job keeper but likely to extend also to rental assistance and other programs.
This assumes that all businesses will be hit at a uniform time which is a blatantly false assumption.
If architects stop drawing today, builders run out of work in six months time.
It also risks a very split economic story. Those businesses and individuals who got a lot of assistance, and those who got none at all.
I think there are a lot of employees out there who work for both small and large businesses that assume they will be getting the job keeper payment.

There will be a lot of anger when it is revealed to them that the business that they work for are in fact no eligible.
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