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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Ods. Today is Thursday,

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Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of August. I'm joined by co founder

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Speaker 1: of the Daily Ods, Sam Kozlowski, who is here to

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Speaker 1: take you through the big stories of today before guiding

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Speaker 1: us through a deep dive with a twenty one year

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Speaker 1: old who is suffering from COVID nineteen. Before that chat, Sam,

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Speaker 1: can you just update us on what is happening nationally?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a good day to be a COVID case.

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Speaker 2: In New South Wales there were nine hundred and nineteen

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Speaker 2: locally acquired cases of COVID yesterday, with at least thirty

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Speaker 2: seven of those cases infectious in the community. New South

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Speaker 2: Wales Health also recorded two deaths related to COVID. Over

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Speaker 2: in Victoria, there were forty five locally acquired cases of

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen yesterday, with twenty eight of those infectious in

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Speaker 2: the community. Meanwhile, in the Act there were nine locally

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Speaker 2: acquired cases of COVID, with at least four of those

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Speaker 2: infectious in the community.

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Speaker 1: Before we jump ahead, I just wanted to clarify what

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Speaker 1: infectious in the community actually is, because I do believe

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Speaker 1: there is a bit of a misconception around this. When

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Speaker 1: we talk about that number, it's not necessarily that those

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Speaker 1: people are doing the wrong thing. It just means that

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Speaker 1: they might have gone for a walk or gone food shopping,

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Speaker 1: anything you're allowed to do in lockdown, and that contact

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Speaker 1: traces hadn't yet told them that they were required to

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Speaker 1: do fourteen days of quarantine. So that's usually because the

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Speaker 1: system is a bit behind, or because they haven't linked

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Speaker 1: those cases. But when we talk about infectious in the community,

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Speaker 1: don't just think people breaking the rules and going about

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Speaker 1: their day as usual. It's usually people who have been

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Speaker 1: following the rules but haven't yet been told that they

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Speaker 1: are acquired to quarantine. On the topic of quarantine, Queensland

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Speaker 1: has paused all travel from interstate hotspot arrivals for the

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Speaker 1: next two weeks. So what this means is that if

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Speaker 1: you're a Queenslander and you say went to Canberra for

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Speaker 1: the Parliamentary sitting week, you now can't go back, you

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Speaker 1: can't do hotel quarantine and you can't enter the state.

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Speaker 1: Here's Premier Palichet explaining why that is.

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Speaker 3: We are really concerned about the pressure that the hotel

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Speaker 3: quaranten system is putting on our resources. So we have

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Speaker 3: to change some of our policy, so they'll be our

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Speaker 3: health director that will be issued and this is to

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Speaker 3: sort this out as quickly as we possibly can.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, at twelve oh one this morning, Western Australia East

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Speaker 1: border restrictions with South Australia and Queensland.

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Speaker 2: The other big story dominating headlines this week is of

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Speaker 2: course Afghanistan, and over in the US, President Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: has confirmed that the US will continue to withdraw all

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Speaker 2: troops from Afghanistan by August thirty one, and this is

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Speaker 2: due to the growing risk of terrorist attacks in the country.

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Speaker 2: President Biden made the announcement despite calls from some leaders

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Speaker 2: to delay the withdrawal to give their armies more time

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Speaker 2: to get their people out of Afghanistan, and this included

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Speaker 2: calls from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

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Speaker 1: The good news is of course, courtesy of the Paralympics,

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Speaker 1: where Australia has started on a golden note. As a

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Speaker 1: colleague of mine pointed out, I think we should just

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Speaker 1: call it off now because Australia is top of the

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Speaker 1: table after winning a number of gold medals last night.

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Speaker 2: For today's deep dive, we were fortunate enough to be

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Speaker 2: joined by Jet Stanton, who's twenty one from Western Sydney

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Speaker 2: and Jet has just left hospital after being diagnosed with

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Speaker 2: COVID nineteen. It was fascinating to talk to Jet and

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Speaker 2: get his reflections on the state of the public health

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Speaker 2: system and his experience in hospital, but also how he

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Speaker 2: feels about watching the protests that happens last weekend across Sydney,

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Speaker 2: Melbourne and Brisbane. Here's that chat. Here's that chat with Jet.

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Speaker 2: Joining me today is twenty nine year old Sydney sider

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Speaker 2: Jet Stanton, who has just come out of hospital after

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Speaker 2: contracting COVID nineteen. Jet, firstly, how are you feeling at

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Speaker 2: the moment?

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Speaker 4: Think general drowdiness. Just don't feel a great quality at all,

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Speaker 4: you know, I've lost all my census smell and taste fatigue.

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Speaker 4: I definitely don't feel like I could be as active

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Speaker 2: And so where are you right now?

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Speaker 4: So I'm in hotel quarantine at the moment. I only

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Speaker 4: spent maybe a night or two at the hospital. They

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Speaker 4: moved me into hotel quarantine where they can still keep

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Speaker 4: an eye on me in an environment where obviously, if

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Speaker 4: there's other people that need the hospital more than me,

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Speaker 4: they can take that spot.

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Speaker 2: And how often do they check in with you on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis.

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Speaker 4: In the hospital, obviously they checked in about three times

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Speaker 4: a day, seven point thirty sometime during midday and then

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Speaker 2: And that we know that a lot of young people

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Speaker 2: are hesitant to get medical attention and get help if

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Speaker 2: they've got symptoms. Is that what happened to you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean not necessarily. It was definitely wasn't my

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Speaker 4: choice to call the ambulance. But at the same time,

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Speaker 4: I don't think I was really in a state to

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Speaker 4: call the ambulance. To be honest, I passed out multiple

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Speaker 4: times or a couple of times in a short amount

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Speaker 4: of time. That should cause two ambulance trips and the

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Speaker 2: Obviously, tell me a bit more about your experience in

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Speaker 2: hospital in terms of how you felt the public health

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Speaker 4: Oh, I couldn't believe it a like I ended up

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Speaker 4: being isolated with one other person in the same room.

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Speaker 4: At the start, it was just me by myself, but

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Speaker 4: they ended up putting another person in that absolutely lovely lady.

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Speaker 4: They'd full isolate me. I'd come in with their full

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Speaker 4: has that looking suit. Things so brave, getting right up

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Speaker 4: close to you, putting everything on you like this. It

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Speaker 4: was just surreal knowing that I have COVID, but these

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Speaker 4: people are still coming so close to me, and it's

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Speaker 4: just like the level of braveness I can't even explain.

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Speaker 4: But yes they were vaccinated, Yes they had all the

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Speaker 4: protective gear they could have had, but it was just

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Speaker 4: how close and personal they got in terms of trying

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Speaker 4: just to help someone out was just immensely impressive. I

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Speaker 4: couldn't thank them enough for a day.

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Speaker 2: Thinking of the reaction from other young people in the

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Speaker 2: last couple of days to your story. Do you think

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Speaker 2: that young people are taking COVID seriously enough, especially in

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Speaker 2: Sydney at the moment, No.

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Speaker 4: Definitely not. My situation was a perfect example of I

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Speaker 4: was going with the lockdown rules. I was isolating. I

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Speaker 4: mean I was not seeing people, not having people come over,

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Speaker 4: you know, people around me. That caused me to be

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Speaker 4: in this position. It was just an act of pure

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Speaker 4: I want my freedom and I'm going to do what

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Speaker 4: I want. I'm gonna, you know, I'm going to have

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Speaker 4: people over, I'm going to go mix with other people,

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Speaker 4: other groups of people. Even it's not even like they're

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Speaker 4: getting their freedom back, But they don't realize that there

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Speaker 4: was people like I was in that position doing the

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Speaker 4: right thing. I was making sure I was playing my part,

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Speaker 4: making sure in case I did have it for however reason,

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Speaker 4: I didn't give it to the next person. But obviously

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Speaker 4: they didn't think about that. I don't think about the

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Speaker 4: fact that other people, the next person might get it

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Speaker 4: and it's won't even maybe the fault. And also, like

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Speaker 4: you've got to keep in mind that just because you

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Speaker 4: don't think that it will affect you largely doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: the person next to you that you give it to,

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Speaker 4: we'll take it lightly, but they might end up in

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Speaker 4: my position in the hospital again, because I can't lie

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Speaker 4: to people around me that I contracted COVID from the

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Speaker 4: basically have no symptoms, Yeah, no symptoms, and yeah, it

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Speaker 4: feels like a real rip off.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing, right, is that people have such

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Speaker 2: contrasting experiences with COVID. What do you think of the

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Speaker 2: government messaging that you've heard, not necessarily in the last

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Speaker 2: few days since you've kind of been going through the system,

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Speaker 2: but previously, did you feel like you fully understood what

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Speaker 2: your role needed to be and how to get vaccinated

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Speaker 2: and all those key messaging elements with this.

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Speaker 4: Before getting COVID. Yeah, yes, I mean I already had.

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Speaker 4: I had my vaccine booked the day after I got

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Speaker 4: my positive result. My girlfriend being a nurse and stuff

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Speaker 4: like that. Even if she wasn't an Earth, I'd still

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Speaker 4: be interested in getting the vaccine. Definitely was wanting to

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Speaker 4: play my part and getting the vaccine. I mean, when

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Speaker 4: I watched the protest, it was like person going through COVID.

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Speaker 4: It was just insane, Seve. And you know, obviously you

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Speaker 4: can't like force the vaccine downs people's throat. You know,

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Speaker 4: you can't tell people what to do. But I just

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Speaker 4: can't stress enough that if you're going to play that

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Speaker 4: part of the role, don't put other people in danger

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Speaker 4: of actually getting the disease. And if you're not going

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Speaker 4: to get the vaccine, then at least through the part

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Speaker 4: and not letting other people get at risk of it.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything else you want to add in terms

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Speaker 2: of a message to young people who read our page

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Speaker 2: every day and look to our page for information on COVID,

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Speaker 2: just be careful.

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Speaker 4: Where you get information from me personally going through it,

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Speaker 4: it was a very probably one of the most extremely

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Speaker 4: unpleasant experiences of my life. And just yeah, the end messages,

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Speaker 4: just don't put people in that danger. But that's just

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Speaker 4: like my end message because like I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 4: I was doing my part, people around me, weren't. I

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Speaker 4: ended up in this position and the one person of

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Speaker 4: everyone in that group ended up in the hospital. That's

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Speaker 4: pretty much the morrow of my story. Just don't put

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Speaker 2: Jet. I really can't emphasize enough how much we appreciate

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Speaker 2: you chatting to us, and I'm so glad that you're

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Speaker 2: safe and healthy as healthy as you can be at

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Speaker 2: the moment in hotel quarantine and keep smiling and we'll

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Speaker 2: check in on you later

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Speaker 4: No problem, Yeah, I guess we'll see