1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Well, hundreds of people who got caught up in quarantine 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: the result of a coronavirus outbreak in South Australia were 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: released earlier than expected on Saturday. It comes after the 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Anti government revoked the travel hotspot for Adelaide after it 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 1: was revealed a lie sent SA into lockdown last week. 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: One of those Territorians that got caught up in that 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: quarantine was my good friend Alison Kelly. She joins me 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: on the line, now get a Ali. 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, how are you good MANE. 10 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: Lovely to speak to you on air. I know you 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: spoke with Katie a little bit earlier this week or 12 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: last week, I should say, you got off the plane 13 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: straight into the Howard Springs quarantine facility, but you got 14 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: let out a little bit earlier than expected. 15 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: Ali, we did. That was a big bonus. Hey, that 16 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: was a big bonus for a goal. Yeah. 17 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: How did you find out that you were going to 18 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: be let out early? 19 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: Oh? Well, when Natasha Pals did the news conference, I 20 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 2: wasn't actually aware of it. I was just that reading 21 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: in my room and literally heard outside the my room 22 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 2: all these whoops and hooray, and I thought, okay, something's happened. 23 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 2: So outside, and most of the people on our block 24 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 2: were kind of out on the verandahs and saying, oh, 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: we're getting out, We're getting out. So yeah, then we 26 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: sort of all tuned into well a lot we're listening 27 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: to the Fashophiles news conference and so tuned into that, 28 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 2: and then we kind of took a little bit of 29 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 2: a step back instead, Oh, let's just hang on, just 30 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 2: let's wait till we get told let's not count our chickens. 31 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 2: And then we got really quite quickly after that, we 32 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 2: got any a text from the welfare team to say that, yeah, 33 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 2: it was that we would be released on Saturday. 34 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, how did you feel that that moment when you 35 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: put your book down and you went, what's all this 36 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: yelling and screaming going on? And you walked outside and 37 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: found out the news. 38 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: Look really really, really good and and and everybody was 39 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: all caught up in the moment and it was just 40 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 2: really nice. And we've all, you know, we were all fine, 41 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: and we've all got to know everybody on our little 42 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: little line of units there, and yeah, we all kind 43 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: of were just like, can we believe this? Is this 44 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: really going to happen? And we were we were just 45 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: very very lucky that we didn't end up doing the 46 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: full fourteen days, and you know, we're just thankful for 47 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 2: that really. So once we got it was confirmed, we 48 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 2: all wanted that confirmation i think from them, from the 49 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,079 Speaker 2: from the guys on the ground here at the there, 50 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 2: at the welfare center. And once we've got that text, 51 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 2: then everybody kind of ran back out again and was like, yes, yes, 52 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: it's real, we're actually doing this, you know. So it was, 53 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 2: it was, It was great. It was a lovely feeling, Allie. 54 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: What was those I think it worked out to be 55 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: about five days in quarantine, like. 56 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 2: Absolutely fine, absolutely fine, as I said, right from day one, 57 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: and even with the sort of the shock of actually 58 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 2: finding ourselves in there, everything was just fine. And look, 59 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 2: five days that was nothing, was it? Even the fourteen 60 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: days would have we would have not gone crazy. Everybody 61 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 2: was smashing How hard is it really too? We were 62 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: in our rooms, we could go for walks, the food 63 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 2: was delivered to our door. The staff, as I said, 64 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: from day one, were amazing. You were on the end 65 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 2: of the phone. We had welfare checks, we had health 66 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 2: checks every morning, and so how hard is it for 67 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: us to just sit in our room watch TV read 68 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: books compared to, as I've said previously, what everybody else 69 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: is going through and the staff that we're having to 70 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 2: deal with, all this lots running around, and you had 71 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: click and collect, You could order what you wanted and 72 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: have that brought into you. That's not really hard, is it. 73 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 2: You've got to put it into perspective. 74 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: And how did that go for you? Because I know 75 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: that I mean going down to Adelaide. You know, the 76 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: clothing that you had packed would have probably been a 77 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: little bit different to you know, what you had in 78 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: Adelaide for up and down. So were you able to 79 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: organize a click and collect and get some clothes and 80 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: a toothbrush and that kind of thing. 81 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, we look. I was very lucky because I packed 82 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 2: for every eventuality going. So I had the biggest suitcase 83 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 2: and had literally everything that I would possibly need for 84 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: any any temperature. My husband not so much. He packed 85 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 2: more sensibly, but I ordered. We could click and collect 86 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 2: from Big w or Kmar and you could get like 87 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 2: a you know, sort of ordered shorts for him and 88 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 2: just more comfortable clothing. As I say, I was, I 89 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 2: was pretty okay. And any extra toiletries because we didn't 90 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 2: have anything like that. That was our first I think priority. 91 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: We got the toiletries that we required just to see 92 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: us through for the the able two weeks, you know, 93 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 2: as it was meant to be. Once you've got those, 94 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 2: I ordered some books, magazine. You kind of that was you. 95 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 2: You were fine. 96 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: It would sound like you've had a mini holiday there. 97 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 2: Well, you know, you've got to you're going to be realistic. 98 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 2: I mean, you know it was. It was boring. I mean, 99 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,039 Speaker 2: you know, I'm not I'm not a huge sit in 100 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 2: front of the tally. But you did what you did 101 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 2: and we could go out, and we could go for walks, 102 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 2: and we were talking to other people. We got to 103 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 2: meet other people obviously, and you know me, Matt, I 104 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 2: literally talk to anybody. So I made some new friends. Yeah, 105 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 2: and we couldn't change the fact. So you made the 106 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 2: best of what you have and we did, you know, Ali. 107 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: The big question is have you got any travel plans now, 108 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 1: because obviously you learned the hard way that the government 109 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: can call a hotspot on anywhere at any time coming 110 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: up to Christmas? Are you planning on traveling again? Has 111 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: it put you off at all? 112 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: I'm not planning on traveling again, and it really did 113 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 2: open my eyes, and I and and and in all honesty, 114 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: I my first initial reaction was, well, that's ridiculous, you 115 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 2: can't do this. But the fact of the matter is 116 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: it can change in a heartbeat, and that's exactly what 117 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 2: happened with us. So it has put me off not 118 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 2: not so much traveling. I think if I wanted to, 119 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 2: and I really feel like my son's down in Adelaide, 120 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 2: if I want to go back and see him, I 121 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: really would, but I think I would consider so much 122 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 2: more than I did this time. And it is a 123 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 2: it is a realization for everybody. It can change in 124 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: a minute, and you've got to you've got to take 125 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 2: that on board and just be aware that this could 126 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,599 Speaker 2: happen to you, because because it did to us, and 127 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: we didn't even consider that. 128 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, I had, I was planning to go to adelade 129 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: in about all days time. And yeah, I think we 130 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: were on and off, on and off for a while. 131 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: And in the end our flights Jetsta canceled. Our flights 132 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: were due to fly out Friday morning. And it is 133 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: just a reminder. I mean, you know, we'd booked the 134 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,559 Speaker 1: flights about two weeks earlier, myself and my partner Carli, 135 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: and we thought, oh that you know, there's you know, 136 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: we don't need to worry about something like we're not 137 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: going to Melbourne or anything like that. We thought, gee, 138 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: if there's any place where we'd be guaranteed a safe holiday, 139 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: it would be Adelaide. But as you learned firsthand and 140 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: we've learnt as well, is that you know it can 141 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: change at any time. 142 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: And we actually said exactly the same when we plan 143 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: to go down and we were saying, and even when 144 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,679 Speaker 2: we were in Adelaide with my son and his friends 145 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: and such, we were saying, look, we're the two safest 146 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: places here. We're really lucky. And we were say in 147 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 2: all of that, and so even more so with as 148 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 2: being in Adelaide, we felt we were in the safest 149 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 2: place next to the NT And no, that obviously wasn't 150 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 2: obviously wasn't the case. So you've got to really think 151 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 2: through your plans and work commitments and anything that follows 152 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 2: from that, your responsibilities that you have back here. Not 153 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,679 Speaker 2: to be too dramatic, but it does have an impact. 154 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 2: It has a big impact on you. Even just for us. 155 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 2: In that short space of time that we were we 156 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 2: were we were unable to return home. It has an 157 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 2: impact on a lot of things. So yeah, just bear 158 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 2: that in mind if you you are traveling, I think, well. 159 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you've taken it in your stride. I'm 160 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: glad to hear that you are so cheerful and you 161 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: got out a week early. And for those who don't know, 162 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: I've known you for many years, going back to my 163 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: trivia days at Tracy Village. So as I said in 164 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: my last message to you, I said, wine's on me 165 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: next time we catch up at Tracy Village. 166 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 2: Absolutely wines on you. I'll hold you to that. You 167 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 2: know that. 168 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: Of course you will thank you talking to she is 169 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: you too? Make great? Dat do you buy? That's a 170 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: friend of mine? Ellie There she got caught up in 171 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: a quarren after flying back from Adelaide what would have 172 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: been a week ago. But thankfully due to the fact 173 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: that that hotspot has been lifted out and free now 174 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: and certainly taking it all in our strides as well.