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Speaker 1: Jub mission with Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Well, it seems every time we relax into what we

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Speaker 2: think might be the beginning of a normal life, we're

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Speaker 2: hit with a setback. This time it's a Victorian outbreak

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Speaker 2: of coronavirus. Where do we stand with things in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales? It's always a thrilled to welcome our premier clad.

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Speaker 2: It's very jicli in.

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Speaker 3: Hello guys, how are you well?

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Speaker 2: Well? How do you feel about our roleout? I know

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Speaker 2: that in Victoria this has been an impetus for a

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Speaker 2: lot of them to go and get vaccinated. How are

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Speaker 2: our stats?

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Speaker 3: Our starts are going really well, they're improving. So we've

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Speaker 3: done nearly one point four million jabs in New South

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Speaker 3: Wales already and I've said once we get to ten

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Speaker 3: million we can start thinking about having a more normal

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Speaker 3: COVID existence.

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Speaker 2: So we're only at one point four exactly.

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Speaker 3: That's why it's really key for everyone to come forward.

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Speaker 3: But as you know, people over fifty like me and

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Speaker 3: I just turned for if you last year, I might

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Speaker 3: it have the Stennic vaccine.

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Speaker 2: You know, your second one this week?

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Speaker 3: I had my second one this week, so I did

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Speaker 3: have to say I feel a lot of relieves that

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Speaker 3: I've fully vaccinated. It's a good feeling to have and

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Speaker 3: I do recommend it to others because as we see

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Speaker 3: in Victoria, things can change really quickly. We don't know

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Speaker 3: what the future holds, and we don't want us Australia

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Speaker 3: and ourselves in New Southwest to fall behind if the

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Speaker 3: rest of the world is open up or we're going

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Speaker 3: to stay closed how many years? And so once everybody

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Speaker 3: is vaccinated, we can feel more confident about moving forward

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Speaker 3: because the key thing is to keep people out of hospital,

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Speaker 3: to stop people dying, and that's what the vaccine does.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't mean you may not get it or pass

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Speaker 3: it on to others, but it'd be like the cold

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Speaker 3: if we don't count how many people get the flu,

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Speaker 3: but we do count how many people die from the fluid.

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Speaker 3: And that's got to be the mindset moving forward. Once

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Speaker 3: we've vaccinated our population. We can't live like this forever.

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Speaker 2: But can I ask you this? Though every time I

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Speaker 2: put anything on my social media, every time I think

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Speaker 2: we talk on the radio about go and get vaccinated,

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Speaker 2: we get a lot of hate as well, with people saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: you're all sheep and you're not really there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of vaccine a hesitancy but also anti vaccine. Can we

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Speaker 2: be free if we've had our shots and others haven't.

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Speaker 3: Well, their decisions will have to think about when we've

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Speaker 3: vaccinated more of the population. They are things we'll need

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Speaker 3: to think about. But the important thing to know that

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Speaker 3: is the surveys that we've done through Service New South

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Speaker 3: Wales show that about seventy percent of people are really

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Speaker 3: keen to get the vaccine. That's more than two thirds,

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Speaker 3: So that's like millions and millions of people in New Southwell,

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Speaker 3: we've still got the job ahead of us. And why

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Speaker 3: I say ten million jabs, that's five million people vaccinated.

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Speaker 3: We have a population of eight million now that doesn't

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Speaker 3: include sixteen to eighteen year olds, which is also important

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Speaker 3: to vaccinate, doesn't include school kids, and obviously in the

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Speaker 3: future that's something we do need to consider as well.

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Speaker 3: But I'm very hopeful that in New South Wales we

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Speaker 3: have enough people who want to get vaccinated as soon

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Speaker 3: as possible to keep us going and to keep the

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Speaker 3: vaccine numbers growing. I mean, we've pushed through more than

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Speaker 3: fourteen thousand in a day through just the New South

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Speaker 3: Wales Health System. Our gps are doing a phenomenal job.

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Speaker 3: They're doing about two thirds of the heavy lifting. We

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Speaker 3: do about a third. And in New South Wales traditionally

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Speaker 3: it's been the GPS that do all of our vaccine rollouts.

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Speaker 3: But especially for people I have a fifty, we're encouraging

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Speaker 3: them to go to the GP so that can ask

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Speaker 3: all the questions and.

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Speaker 4: I do that with my GPS. I had to go

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Speaker 4: to a different GP because my usual GP wasn't administering

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Speaker 4: the vaccine, so I went to a new GP. But

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Speaker 4: he was great. By the way a man to filled out.

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Speaker 2: My forms, I said he had a drinking problem.

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Speaker 4: And she said that I take all my medications in

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Speaker 4: a suppository form, which was a bit of a surprise.

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Speaker 3: Luckily that unto the vaccine, I dropped my DABT.

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Speaker 1: But he explained a lot of stuff just about the

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Speaker 1: side effects and also the chances of the blood clot thing.

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Speaker 1: And I would implore this to anyone that's going that's

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Speaker 1: got the hesitancy. Just talk to your GP. They went

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Speaker 1: to university. They're trained. Don't listen to some idiot hairdresser

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Speaker 1: or a chef. Listen to a GP.

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Speaker 3: Well, we Actually I've met with the leading gps that

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Speaker 3: represent the peak bodies in you South Wales, the General

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Speaker 3: College of Practitioners and the Australian Medical Association, all the gps,

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Speaker 3: and they say that once anyone has doubts and they

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Speaker 3: speak to them about it, by the end of the

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Speaker 3: session they're saying, give them a vaccine. So it is

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Speaker 3: a question of getting that information if you're worried about it.

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Speaker 3: But as I said, the numbers have now been steadily.

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Speaker 3: There was a period where confidence had dropped a bit,

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Speaker 3: but now it's come back up. And I think when

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Speaker 3: you see other people get vaccinated and they've been okay,

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Speaker 3: it gives you that level of confidence as well. But

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Speaker 3: we don't know what's around the corner. We don't know

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Speaker 3: what you know. The world says they're opening a UK

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Speaker 3: and US have started talking about opening up now. I'm

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Speaker 3: not suggesting we do anything before Ridy and believe me,

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Speaker 3: we haven't worked so hard in New Southwest to then

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Speaker 3: throw the game away. I'm not about to do anything

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Speaker 3: that's going to compromise any of our health and safety.

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Speaker 3: But at the same time we need to be in

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Speaker 3: a position where we can give options to our citizens

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Speaker 3: when we can look forward to having a more normal existence.

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Speaker 3: And you know, without being dramatic or scary, and I'm

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Speaker 3: not the type, but once COVID is eliminated, what if

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Speaker 3: there's another virus that comes along. This could be the

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Speaker 3: new world for us. And so you know, when we

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Speaker 3: have the vaccine and from here on in, they'll provide

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Speaker 3: a booster. It's a bit like that. I didn't realize this,

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Speaker 3: but with the flu shot, I've been getting it the

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Speaker 3: last few years, other because I don't want to give

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Speaker 3: it to my parents. But they actually to do a

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Speaker 3: different combination every year, depending on the strains that flur

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Speaker 3: there around. Right, So that's basic information I didn't not

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Speaker 3: realize before COVID. But they'll be probably doing the same

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Speaker 3: with a COVID booster or a similar viral.

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Speaker 1: It's like a cocktail.

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Speaker 4: I'm a I'm happy for it. Well, Glad, this is

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Speaker 4: great to talk to you. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: You look after yourself you too, Thanks guys. Jonesy and

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Speaker 3: Amanda's