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Speaker 1: This is jam nation with Jonesy and jonesy amount of

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Speaker 1: arms for the pub test?

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Speaker 2: Business as usual with COVID?

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Speaker 1: Does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 2: We're in the middle of our fourth COVID wave, driven

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Speaker 2: by a range of omicron subvariants. This wave, however, is

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Speaker 2: the first one without restrictions in place. There are no

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Speaker 2: mask mandates, there's no payments if you have COVID, so

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Speaker 2: you told just stay at home if you're not well

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Speaker 2: enough to go to work. But a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are working through all of this. Are we living with

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Speaker 2: the virus successfully or do you think we need to

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Speaker 2: see more mask mandates? Some people are concerned when eight

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Speaker 2: hundred passengers with COVID disembarked from a cruise ship into Sydney,

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Speaker 2: But people are flying in every day with COVID. Our

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Speaker 2: community at the moment is kind of rife with it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people aren't even bothered testing anymore. So

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Speaker 2: how do you feel that it's business as usual with COVID?

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Speaker 2: Does this pass the pub test?

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Speaker 3: I work in an age care facility and we're managing

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Speaker 3: our fourth outbreak in the space of a year. The

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Speaker 3: impact of staffing, not to mention the impact on our

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Speaker 3: residents that COVID has had, and I think the community

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Speaker 3: is not aware of what's actually going on in the

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Speaker 3: healthcare or the age cares packed up there.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's absolutely not, because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: vulnerable people still out there, and look at the cases.

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Speaker 1: They're growing so quickly. We have still got to be careful.

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Speaker 4: I just want to say that I am so over it.

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Speaker 4: I've done the right thing, I've got my tree vaccine.

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Speaker 4: I just want to get on with my life. I

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Speaker 4: think the thing that stokes worrying and concerning at the

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Speaker 4: moment is the floods.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to be Yeah, that's right, I'm not. My

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Speaker 2: bandwidth can't take anymore. But as that first caller said,

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Speaker 2: whether we want to be concerned or not, in aged

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Speaker 2: care all that stuff, this is still a concern. We

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Speaker 2: can't say it doesn't matter because something else matters more. Oh,

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Speaker 2: it's exhausting.