1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's. 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: Today we recorded our third day of zero locally acquired 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 2: cases of COVID. But as we saw over summer, we 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: live in fear of some kind of flare up, but 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 2: with a vaccine around the corner, we have a lot 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 2: of things to be optimistic about. For the first time 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 2: this year, we welcome out Premier Gladys Spiritual clim Good morning. 8 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Thank you guys handing out the virtual hugs. Indeed, is 9 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: it un because I was doing this? That's really cool? 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Is that a right? 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: It's sort of like your arms groping or you know, 12 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: moving in but not touched, you know what. 13 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: I kind of I'm happy about with the whole. You know, 14 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: I'm a positive. 15 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: Guy, COVID positive, not COVID positive, but no more manha 16 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 2: hugs because I was. I don't mind. 17 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: I'm a hugger, but I don't like too much kissy 18 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: kissy when you don't know the person. Yeah, I don't 19 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,279 Speaker 1: like that at all. And in my job, I mean, 20 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 1: I know, people show affection and it's lovely, but if 21 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: you don't know someone and they kiss you, it's it's difficult. 22 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 2: I've also quite enjoyed the anonymity in a way I 23 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: don't know other people of wearing a mask, meaning I 24 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: don't have to wear make up, don't have to do 25 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: any of that stuff. And it's been hot in the heat. 26 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 2: But how are we going with all of this? I 27 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: know you feel that not enough of us are getting tested, 28 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 2: But are you saying that people have symptoms and aren't 29 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 2: getting tested? 30 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: No, always saying is And look, can I just firstly 31 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: thank everybody because the community response has been outstanding, So 32 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: it's not that any of us are doing the wrong thing. 33 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: It's just that the health experts like to see a 34 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: certain level of testing and a certain number of zero 35 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: cases before you ease restrictions. So we've had a few 36 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: days of zero cases, but not enough on itself to 37 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: make a decision like easing restrictions. You kind of need 38 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: both things happening before you can ease restrictions, or at 39 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: least one of those things happening. So we're getting a 40 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: reasonable rate of testing. Of course, we'd like to see 41 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: it go up. 42 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: You should don't get tested if we don't have symptoms exactly. 43 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: You shouldn't, though, because that doesn't capture people who are 44 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: likely to have the virus. So they say asymptomatic testing, 45 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: or you should get tested if you don't have symptoms. 46 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: If you are a key worker, so if you work 47 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: in frontline, if you're in quarantine worker, or you're a 48 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 1: health worker or transport, if you're someone who has daily 49 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 1: contact with people, you should You're you're in the category 50 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: of person that should get regular testing. But if you're 51 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 1: someone in the community who doesn't have symptoms, who hasn't 52 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: been at a venue where someone's had the virus, well 53 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: then you don't need to get tested. But please make 54 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: sure you keep looking up those venues because you may 55 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: have casually been getting takeaway or being somewhere when someone 56 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: with the virus has been, and in those circumstances, you 57 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: should get tested. Obviously, not that. 58 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: I would tell you how to do your job hereas here. 59 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: We go, but you would everybody else does. I'm just 60 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: thinking people tell you how to do your job. It's 61 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 1: in a nice way. But what about when they say 62 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,679 Speaker 1: stay home, get tested, shouldn't be get tested? Then stay home? Well, yeah, 63 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: that's normally what people say. 64 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 2: You know what I mean, stay home? 65 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 1: But I think people mean if you have sometimes you 66 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: might wake up with a scratchy throat and so therefore, 67 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: don't go to work, don't go to your friend's house, 68 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: don't visit your parents. So I guess the message is 69 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: cancel your plans. If you wake up with a symptom, 70 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: wait till you get tested, go home, wait for the result, 71 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: and get the advice. But if you're what's called a 72 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: close contact, so if you're someone who either lives in 73 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: the same household or has been at dinner with someone 74 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: or at the same venue for a particular time, if 75 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: you're deemed to be a close contact, even if your 76 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: test is negative, you still have to stay home for 77 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: fourteen days because if you get because the incubation period 78 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: lasts that long, so you might get the disease on 79 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: day twelve or thirteen. And we're finding with the new strains, 80 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: people are getting the disease later on in the incubation period. 81 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: So that's why if you're if you're what's deemed to 82 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: be a close contact, and you'll be told if you 83 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: are helpful, you'll be guys if it's someone as youself, 84 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: it's someone in your household or you or it will 85 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: actually tell you if you've been if you've deemed to 86 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: be at a restaurant or a facility for a certain 87 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: period of time on a certain day, you'd be deemed 88 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: to be a close contact because you might have been 89 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: on the next table with someone with a or or 90 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: someone who you may have been a worker there at 91 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: the place. So you do need to take that advice. 92 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: If you're deemed to be a close contact, you have 93 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: to stay home. 94 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: So we wouldn't be close contacts because we all I 95 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 2: do is come to. 96 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Work and go home now, but you would be with me. 97 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: I'm close with Amanda. 98 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: But if we get to if I go and get 99 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: tested now, I can't come into work tomorrow. 100 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: Correct until you get the result, SORR. If you're O casual, 101 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: if Amanda had it and you yep. 102 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 2: Deinitely, Well what about we were talking about this yesterday 103 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: on the show about random COVID testing the same way 104 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 2: we do random breath testing. Would that work? 105 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: Well, it's not effective because you're potentially targeting people who 106 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: have potentially not come in contact with the disease. So 107 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: what the health experts want to do is every day 108 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: we want to make sure that there aren't any chains 109 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,799 Speaker 1: of what we call transmission or clusters of the virus 110 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: that we haven't identified. And so what you're try and 111 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: do is hone in on those areas where there has 112 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: been some cases or the sewage has shown there's cases. 113 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,799 Speaker 1: A lot of the sewerage testing also tells you old 114 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: cases because it stays in your body for a long time, 115 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: So even if you're still not contagious, you might still 116 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: have remnants of the virus for a very long time. 117 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: Who gets to do that job experts, and apparently Australia 118 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: is leading a Not many places in the world do 119 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: that because we have a small enough number of cases 120 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: to make it effective. Like there's no point doing it 121 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: in America because it'll come up positive in every single place, right, 122 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: But we can get it down to one in ten thousand, 123 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: so we can because our case numbers are so low, 124 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 1: it's actually an effective tool for us. So if the testing, 125 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: if the sewerage testing comes up positive in an area 126 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: where there hasn't been any recent cases, our health experts say, 127 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: will hang on, people here should get tested. But even 128 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: if it's an area which has had cases and the 129 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: sewerage testing is positive, the health experts will say, we'll 130 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: hang on. Even if you don't have symptoms, if you 131 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: live in these suburbs, come forward and get tested. So 132 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: you just have to keep listening out for the health 133 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: advice and. 134 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: You hope you have sympathetic bosses that except that you 135 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 2: will have. 136 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: To stay and remember there's also fundings to support you. 137 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,039 Speaker 1: So the federal government has done this across Australia that 138 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: if you have to stay home and isolate, you can 139 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: get support for your lost wages. So people shouldn't worry 140 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: about not having food on the table, or worry about 141 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: losing their jobs or anything like that. I think in 142 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: this environment everybody's been very supportive and you can get 143 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: funding of support if you need to stay home and isolate. Well, 144 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: I understand you are hungry, it's unfortunately you've missed out 145 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: on the tuna geraldine casserole. 146 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 2: Can I show you this? Do you have an old 147 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 2: cookbook of your mum something like this? Mean they cook 148 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 2: in the womb? 149 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: I know, but I actually made my mother or ask 150 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: my mother. I should say, she's to start writing down 151 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago all the recipes she could cook. 152 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: She's phenomenal and I've let the My sisters are really 153 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: good too. My middle sister is really good at desserts, 154 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: and my younger sister is really good at save so 155 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: you don't cook. It's not that I don't, but I 156 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: meaning dishes are very labor intensive. 157 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 2: Hours's going to cut it. 158 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: No lots of good dishes, but I mean, what's the 159 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 1: Australian dishes, the go to dishes. My mother really makes 160 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: a great stuffed zucchini, which means meat and rice, but 161 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: that's very labor intensive. And she stuffs tomatoes sometimes and 162 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: other vegetables. And it's meaning cooking is very similar to 163 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: Greek and live knees. And it also depends on which 164 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: country your parents kind of grow up in. Yep, the 165 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: Greeks would have come up with a first. 166 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: It's okay, well that's correat to talk to you, gladys. 167 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: You're doing a great job, thank you very much, and 168 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: great to be back on deck. And hopefully this year 169 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: will be easier than last year. But one thing we 170 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: do know is no matter what's thrown at us this year, 171 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: we can't we start this year with a lot of knowledge. 172 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: Like this time last year, we had no idea what 173 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: the meant how to deal with it. We were kind 174 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: of fumbling our way through the first couple of months. 175 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: But now I feel we're in a strong position, so 176 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: no matter what comes our way, we can deal with 177 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: it with information and education, which we didn't have a 178 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: year ago. So indeed, everybody to thank you. Coming up 179 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: to eight o'clock Jonesy and Amanda's