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Speaker 1: Job mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales stairs down the barrel of lockdown for

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Speaker 2: another four weeks. People are scared, anxious, angry, feelings of hopelessness.

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Speaker 2: Well to find out what happens next? How do we

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Speaker 2: get through this? We welcome the Premier of New South Wales,

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Speaker 2: Gladys Bary Jiclian.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi Jonesy, How Amanda? How are you going?

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Speaker 2: We're okay? Now, I know the delta variant is different,

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Speaker 2: but we had thirty one cases when we went into

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Speaker 2: lockdown yesterday there were one hundred and seventy seven. What's

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Speaker 2: What's not happening?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: Can I just say that if we hadn't gone into lockdown,

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Speaker 3: the case numbers today would have been in their thousands.

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Speaker 3: The delta strain is taking over the world, even though

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Speaker 3: so grateful for the huge sacrifices everybody is making. Can

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Speaker 1: A difficult decision like that, it is.

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Speaker 3: It's hurts deeply because I know what we're putting people through.

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Speaker 3: But the alternative would be having so many more people

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Speaker 3: because we've seen when you have super spreading events, when

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Speaker 3: thing because this strain, unlike I mean, we managed to

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Speaker 1: We had a.

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Speaker 3: Relatively good experiencing COVID the last eighteen months, as tough

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Speaker 3: Delta strain, it's a completely different ballgame, and it's so contagious,

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Speaker 3: which is why from the outset I've been saying, please

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Speaker 2: But that's going to take a long time time premier,

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Speaker 2: look at the community number. That's not coming down. We're

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Speaker 2: We're not going to all be vaccinated or enough of

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that at all.

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Speaker 3: What I would say, though, is that it's really important

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Speaker 1: Haven't peaked yet.

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Speaker 3: We'll go out before they come down. But that's why

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Speaker 2: I've got an email or we got an email from

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Speaker 3: Well, look, we could look at those policies a bit

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Speaker 1: Doses we get and how many we get.

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Speaker 3: But now that that health advice has changed and people

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Speaker 1: Until we give a chance to.

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Speaker 3: Everybody to get vaccinated. We have to stay safe and say,

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Speaker 3: Look, every status had a different pathway And what I

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Speaker 3: So most people In the greatest thing, you're actually doing

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Speaker 3: That's what we're just saying to everybody. Don't leave home

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Speaker 2: And also get vaccinated. Only thirty nine percent of New

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Speaker 4: Well glad as you're doing a great job. You're fronting

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Speaker 2: When we had our pup teat earlier today, some people

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Speaker 2: same way, so we can come out of it soon.

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Speaker 4: But it comes down to the individual. Wear you mask,

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Speaker 1: Done the wrong thing exactly.

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Speaker 4: for the press Crub conference at eleven o'clock this morning.

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Speaker 4: Are Gladys Perlogically in there, Jonesy and Amanda's