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Speaker 1: Now, there has been so much discussion, obviously over the

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Speaker 1: last few days about the latest COVID cluster here in

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, four cases at the moment, and joining

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Speaker 1: me on the line, Scott, who is the fourth case?

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Speaker 1: Get a Scott? It is not too bad, mate, but

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Speaker 1: I'm probably better by better than you by the sounds

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Speaker 2: It's got a good thing, mate.

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Speaker 1: So you're the fourth case of COVID in the Northern

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Speaker 1: Territory right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it mild apparently a mild case, but I'd

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Speaker 2: hate to see what it was like to be a

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Speaker 2: low case.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right. So are you So you're out at Howard

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Speaker 1: Springs at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Scott, I'm in quarantine. I'm in the red zone they

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Speaker 2: call it. Not the place is okay, but I'd prefer

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Speaker 2: not to be here, you know, continue on normal life.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling like? Are you Are you quite crook?

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Speaker 1: How are your symptoms?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? It does knock you up. I'm double vaccinated. I've

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Speaker 2: been vaccinated since July yep, and I'm probably glad I

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Speaker 2: have been the first couple of days that certainly wiped

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Speaker 2: me out in time, hopefully. Yeah. On the upside of

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Speaker 2: it now, certainly it packed your respiratory system, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: So what like I suppose for you know, for me

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Speaker 1: and for everybody out there listening, like, what is it like?

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Speaker 1: Is it like having a really bad flu or what

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Speaker 1: kind of symptoms did you have?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So I just started off with a bit of

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Speaker 2: a tingling throat and then yeah, I just into a

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Speaker 2: headache and then as it goes on, just ache all over.

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Speaker 2: Certainly got fame symptoms of a couple of other cases there,

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Speaker 2: but a cold, fevers and yeah, it's it would be

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Speaker 2: like a major blue yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right, and you are double vaccinated, so I would imagine

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Speaker 1: that it'd be worse if you weren't, Oh I guess, so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if you've got rectory, you know, if you're

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Speaker 2: nasimotic for something. Absolutely no, it wouldn't be.

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Speaker 1: Now, So for you, how did you? How did you

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Speaker 1: end up with COVID?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're actually we're contractors working on Kindle and

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Speaker 2: we have a sharehouse the every employees work and sorry

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Speaker 2: and obviously the one of our employees, you know, obviously

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Speaker 2: it was tied up with this young lady and just

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Speaker 2: went out socializing whatever they do and yeah, and he

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Speaker 2: came down cooked from the first on the Monday Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, it sort of went from there. So yeah, yes,

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Speaker 2: So then how.

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Speaker 1: Did you sort of find out did you did you

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Speaker 1: start to have symptoms or did you have to go

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Speaker 1: out there to Howard Springs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so on the of the young fellow's crook, so

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Speaker 2: we had just got COVID tests. He did the right

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Speaker 2: thing and he went really good of him, but he

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Speaker 2: did that. Ye, and there we got tests on Thursday

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Speaker 2: and then yeah, we were on police guard from Thursday

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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon and then they shipped us all to Howard

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Speaker 2: spring So there's a tale of it. There's six of

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Speaker 2: us things here, yep. And there's other staff members that

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Speaker 2: are isolating at home.

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Speaker 1: And so obviously at this point it's the four positive cases.

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Speaker 1: But as you've pointed out, you know, close contacts, so

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Speaker 1: there's a few of you out there. What's that meant

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Speaker 1: for you in terms of the impact like on on

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Speaker 1: work and business?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's maths like so, I mean, you know, we're

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Speaker 2: doing a fairy big job in tender and that's just

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Speaker 2: come to a full holped financially, it's crippling. We can't

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Speaker 2: get none of us can get back on on site.

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Speaker 2: And as I'm the owner of the business.

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Speaker 1: Yeah myself, you know, yeah, it has a big impact

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Speaker 1: then on you. Yeah mate, yeah mate, what's it like?

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Speaker 1: Like how are you going? Do you have like have

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Speaker 1: you got a family? And and what's it been like,

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Speaker 1: you know for for your family and friends?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's pretty for long, you know, and then

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Speaker 2: that could be three weeks before I even get out

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Speaker 2: of here. Both times we have the negative how long

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Speaker 2: is that going to take? So yeah, we really don't

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Speaker 2: know playing the waking game really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know obviously like we don't want to be

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Speaker 1: you know, sort of nasty in our comments, but are

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Speaker 1: you quite frustrated about you know, how this is all

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Speaker 1: unfolded and somebody coming into the territory you know in line?

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Speaker 2: Really? Yeah, absolutely, you know it's you know, just a

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Speaker 2: just a knowing that you've done it to me. It's

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Speaker 2: just like how can you even command that? You know,

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Speaker 2: there's no I don't think this person even understands what's happened,

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and it's been so tough, you know, even

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Speaker 1: yesterday we caught up with Tony Innes from you know,

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Speaker 1: the noon of mar tavern out there and the impact

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Speaker 1: that it has obviously on businesses when they've got a

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Speaker 1: close it's massive, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, and we've got an earthman in business,

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Speaker 2: and we've got millions of dollars worth of machines just

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Speaker 2: getting there on at the moment. Yeah, we can't even

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Speaker 2: you can't even get on there, and of course it's

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Speaker 2: taken out of their crew up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Scott, I feel for you, mate. It must be

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Speaker 1: really like really tough going for you and obviously no

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Speaker 1: fault of your own. You know, you've done everything right

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Speaker 1: as you've said as well double vax. But feeling pretty crook.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. Hopefully in the by the weekend, you know,

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Speaker 2: it should be up on the upside, coming up out

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Speaker 2: of it hopefully. Yeah. Yeah. Other than that, it is

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Speaker 2: what it is, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, I'm thank you so much for getting in

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Speaker 1: contact with US. I actually think it really provides you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody listening this morning with that real perspective of the

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Speaker 1: impact that this kind of thing has on on territorians

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Speaker 1: like yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Katie, thank you, thanks mate, thank you very.

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Speaker 1: Much for contacting US. I hope you're feeling better soon.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a call over the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days and let us know how you're going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely real do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Scott, thanks for very much mate. You two

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Speaker 1: look after yourself. See you