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Speaker 1: Jum mission with join Z and Amanda. Well, at the

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Speaker 1: end of last year Jack year twelve, they'd been in

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Speaker 1: a you know, such a hard year. For year twelve,

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Speaker 1: they were lockdown for all those months, did the HSC.

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Speaker 1: All the kids went, who went off to schoolies came home.

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Speaker 1: We had Jack's school formal and final assemblies. That those

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Speaker 1: hard won events took place, and they end up being

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Speaker 1: spreader events. Of course, so we were going to about

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Speaker 1: a year ago. I booked a place in Noosa for

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Speaker 1: my dad and my brother and all our family to

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Speaker 1: be together. We were going to fly up there on

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Speaker 1: the Friday. On the Wednesday, Jack's best friend test positive

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Speaker 1: to COVID. This was the first person we knew who

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Speaker 1: had ever had COVID. This was at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this new spurt that we've had. And I thought, and

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Speaker 1: Jack tested negative. I phoned a friend of mine who's

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Speaker 1: a door and she said, well, if he was showing symptoms,

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Speaker 1: if the friend was showing symptoms, he was shedding the

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Speaker 1: virus around Jack. Jack's not in the clear. So then

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Speaker 1: we're thinking, should Jack stay home while we just go

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Speaker 1: for a week to do the family visit in Noosa?

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Speaker 1: And she said I don't think you'll be in the

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Speaker 1: clear either because if Jack gets it. And also this

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Speaker 1: is at the time when Anastasia Palichet, this is the

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Speaker 1: first week she'd open the border. If you went there

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Speaker 1: and were a close contact, you were going to be

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Speaker 1: put into isolation for jee that's right, yeah, hotel quarantine.

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Speaker 1: So we just couldn't risk it. So Dad, my brother

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Speaker 1: and families turn up on the Wednesday, we were flying there.

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Speaker 1: On the Friday, I had to phone and say we

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Speaker 1: weren't coming. And I cried and cried and cried. I

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Speaker 1: cried every day for a week, and my dad and

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Speaker 1: I couldn't talk together on the phone because we would cry.

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Speaker 1: And they were there. They were there, So they're all

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Speaker 1: parting up on your dollar. They had the holiday without me,

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Speaker 1: and they'd all had a hard year. So I didn't

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Speaker 1: begrudge any of that, but it was so hard in

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Speaker 1: the midst of this, and the other the sting of

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Speaker 1: this is that Jack does get COVID. So what happens now?

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Speaker 1: So he isolated at home for a couple of days

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Speaker 1: waiting for he did a rapid andagen test, then he

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Speaker 1: got his positive PCR test. What was really interesting is

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Speaker 1: all five friends all got it at once. So the

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Speaker 1: mum of one of the girls in their friendship group said,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my house. I'll go and stay with

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Speaker 1: friends Palm Beach or somewhere, and I'll give you my house.

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Speaker 1: So the kids all isolated together. And I wasn't sure

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Speaker 1: at first because I just thought my instinct is if

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Speaker 1: your child is sick, even if they're in a room

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Speaker 1: in your house, you need to know where they are

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Speaker 1: and keep an eye on them. But Jack would have

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Speaker 1: had to sit in his room and a mask. It

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Speaker 1: would have been so hard on his mental health, which

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Speaker 1: if people have had to do. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: how people in with the whole family get it. And

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Speaker 1: you're all trying to isolate different rooms, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you do it so hard. Well, if you're in

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Speaker 1: a small house, that's what I want. It must be

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Speaker 1: so hard. So Jack went to this COVID house with

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Speaker 1: his friends and could be mask for they all had symptoms.

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Speaker 1: I said it can't be a party house, and it

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Speaker 1: said it won't be. We're all sick. But they all

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Speaker 1: stayed there together and it ended up being a brilliant thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to that mum for giving him that

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Speaker 1: house because it kept us safe as well. So Liam,

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Speaker 1: Harley and I didn't get COVID Jack. It took Jack

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Speaker 1: a wall to recover. He's prone to sort of bronchy

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Speaker 1: all kind of stuff anyway, and he lost his sense

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Speaker 1: of smell and things like that. He's only just fully

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Speaker 1: recovered now. But that, like many families, just knocked our

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Speaker 1: holiday plans for six and we were separated for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I know Jack spoke to him on FaceTime for Christmas Day,

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Speaker 1: so it was just a giant plops. But in light

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Speaker 1: of how hard it might have been, where okay, he's

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Speaker 1: okay and when we go So I hung on to

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Speaker 1: my sense of smell and ditch it and taste because

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Speaker 1: they're connected to each other. So if you don't have

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Speaker 1: a sense of smell, taste is weird too. Yeah, My

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Speaker 1: taste is fine. Look at what look at what you're wearing?

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Speaker 1: Your fashion taste? What do you say? Jonesy and Amanda's

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