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Speaker 1: This is jam nation with Jones. You believe this. This

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Speaker 1: time last year we were coming out of lockdown here

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Speaker 1: in Sydney. Now Australia wide, all COVID isolation rules end today.

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Speaker 1: If you have COVID and you have symptoms, stay home.

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Speaker 1: If you're sick, stay home. If you want to go

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Speaker 1: to work and you feel okay, you can. The COVID payment,

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Speaker 1: the pandemic payment's been scrapped unless you're a casual worker

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Speaker 1: in aged care, disability care, original health and hospital care.

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Speaker 1: So basically we are being told it's business as usual.

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Speaker 1: The AMA, the Australian Medical Association, has slammed this decision.

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Speaker 1: They said, we're still looking at signs that there is

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Speaker 1: another wave of COVID. We're coming out of one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest waves of COVID yet it's crushed the hospital workforce.

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Speaker 1: We've got a massive logjam and backlog in hospitals. This

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Speaker 1: is not the time for us to be doing this.

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Speaker 1: I saw there was a one of the newspapers, it

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Speaker 1: might have been Daily Mail or something. They had a

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Speaker 1: picture of Terry Owen at the shops wearing a mask

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Speaker 1: outside outside the shops and this is the headline COVID's

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Speaker 1: over terry Irwin matriarch still wears a mask outdoors like

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty. Let's not go down the American route

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Speaker 1: where we villify people for their personal choices, their health choices.

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Speaker 1: I COVID about a month ago. If I hadn't had COVID,

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Speaker 1: I would be wearing a mask every time I went

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Speaker 1: to the shops, every time I went to the movies.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to protect myself.

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Speaker 2: But also, if you, indeed do you have COVID, you're

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Speaker 2: not going to spread it to everyone else. Wearing a

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Speaker 2: mask isn't a bad thing, that's right. Absolutely, it's a

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Speaker 2: free country. You can wear whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: But how do you feel that now? Pretty much the

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Speaker 1: rules have been scrapped Officially, we're pretending despite thirty six

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Speaker 1: thousand new cases across Australia in.

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Speaker 3: The week to the overreaching thing is in intensive care

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Speaker 3: and more importantly, who's on ventilators? So in intensive care,

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Speaker 3: as I understand it, there's forty six people in intensive care,

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Speaker 3: but next to that actually being assisted by ventilators, you'd

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Speaker 3: find the number would be a lot less. So the

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Speaker 3: government when they went in this, the biggest concern was

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Speaker 3: weflow that we have in New South Wales, we have

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Speaker 3: seventeen hundred dollars seventeen hundred spaces for people to be ventilated.

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Speaker 3: Their biggest concern was that would be overwhelmed. So right now,

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Speaker 3: that's why the government are saying, why it's time.

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Speaker 1: To treat it like the flu. Hospital workers may say

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Speaker 1: that it's not the end of it, of course, So

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Speaker 1: what do we think? How are you feeling? All COVID

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Speaker 1: isolation rules end today.