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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning. Sam.

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Speaker 2: One of our favorite people is Millie who's in the

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Speaker 2: typing pool, and for the last probably six weeks or so,

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Speaker 2: we've been living through a drama in her family. Her

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Speaker 2: dad had been overseas, he got coronavirus. He has been

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Speaker 2: in hospital. He's out of hospital now and he's been

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Speaker 2: cleared of it. But we thought let's chat to him,

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Speaker 2: Let's chat to Andrew about what the whole experience.

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Speaker 3: Has been like.

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Speaker 2: He joins us now from Adelaide. Andrew, Hello, and nice

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Speaker 2: to meet you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Amanda. How are you very well?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? So a scary, scary time.

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Speaker 2: And Millie's told you how needy.

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Speaker 1: I told you, is needy a lot?

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Speaker 2: Believe Well, Andrew, Let's go back to where it all began.

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Speaker 2: You'd been in Vegas. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,

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Speaker 2: apart from if you get coronavirus.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, I think we are. I'm a bit of

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Speaker 1: a keen scarer, so I was. Actually we were scared,

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Speaker 1: and I think we picked it up in Aspen. To

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Speaker 1: be honest, there was quite a few Australians that unfortunately

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Speaker 1: picked it up whilst they were there, So that's where

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Speaker 1: I think I caught it.

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Speaker 2: But this was months ago before any of the quarantine

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Speaker 2: rules and things came in, Is that right?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, true, And so no one knew really

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Speaker 1: what was going on. There was this vague notion about

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Speaker 1: this disease that seemed to have amanded in wu Han

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Speaker 1: in China, and the US at the time was considered

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Speaker 1: an incredibly safe destination to travel to, so no one

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Speaker 1: really thought anything was under what was going to happen

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Speaker 3: Well, it is extraordinary because we're looking at like two

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Speaker 3: weeks ago, everything seemed kind of normal, and coronavirus was

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Speaker 3: even at this point a mild inconvenience to a lot

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Speaker 3: of people. But now it's become real. So when did

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Speaker 3: you stay demonstrating symptoms?

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Speaker 1: Well, when we when we hopped on the plane to

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Speaker 1: traveling with, who tested positive and so we the red

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Speaker 1: and we thought as soon as we get back. We

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Speaker 1: in contact with anyone really, and so that's how we

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Speaker 1: eventually found out that I was positive, but my girlfriend

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Speaker 1: or partner, she miraculously was negative. So we've had to

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Speaker 2: So you actually, though, did develop symptoms to the point

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Speaker 2: where you were hospitalized.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think there was a protocol pretty much that.

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Speaker 1: And you've got to remember I was case number thirty

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Speaker 1: people who had tested positive to this quite scary new disease,

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Speaker 1: It was a bit like the mild hangover. Really, I

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Speaker 1: And so we were doing anything up to twenty thousand

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Speaker 1: So what was happening is I was getting a when

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Speaker 2: When you merely was telling me that when you're in hospital,

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Speaker 2: people were coming in the medical staff in full hazmat suits.

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Speaker 2: So even if you rang the bell for a cup

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, they didn't really want to get your

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Speaker 3: And so so you now have tested negative.

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Speaker 1: You're half an hour to get kitted out ward. Is

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Speaker 1: a very interesting thing in that there's all the doors

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Speaker 1: I think so. But that look, honestly, everyone considering the

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Speaker 1: How cheerful they were. They didn't really know whether I

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Speaker 3: And so you've tested negative now, so you're fine.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And the protocol really was, and it seems to

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Speaker 1: just really learning about it as they go. So the

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Speaker 1: protocol that I was released on was that I got

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, Well, you know, I'm glad all's well with you, Andrew,

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Speaker 2: and thank you for giving us this insight. And and

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Speaker 2: you're responsible, even when you weren't forced to, you knew

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Speaker 2: enough to go into self isolation and did all the

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Speaker 2: right things. No wonder Millie's getting her good set of

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Speaker 2: morals from you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, all I can say is you just don't

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Speaker 1: want to ever affect anyone else just because you've got something.

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Speaker 1: So we were very keen, and our other friends all

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Speaker 1: that happens when all of this is how greatful you

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Speaker 1: of the house. Yeah, and go to the supermarket. I mean,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I've never been so happy in all

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Speaker 1: my life. I skipped down the aisle.

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Speaker 2: You were that guy.

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Speaker 3: You're happy that there was toilet paper there.

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Speaker 1: I just got to let out out he's free.

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Speaker 3: Well, Andrew, thank you. And it's good to get information

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Speaker 3: of misinformation out there. So Andrew, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That's an absolute pleasure. I will have to meet up

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Speaker 2: Sure, Absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 3: I'm the brains of the operation.

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Speaker 1: And you know I can tell that.

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Speaker 2: You're obviously delusion.

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Speaker 3: He likes it's getting flirty now and himself.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Andrew.

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Speaker 3: Millie's dad, Well, that's good news. Isn't it interesting?

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Speaker 2: Isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Joins The and Amanda in the morning, but at one

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Speaker 1: point seven tell you