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Speaker 1: This is gam nation with Jones.

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Speaker 2: Down to the jonesy de matter around to the pub test.

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Speaker 2: COVID not on the agenda. Does it pass the pub test?

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Speaker 3: Yes? As we move into the final days of the

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Speaker 3: election campaign, we've both just spoken about housing there but

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Speaker 3: cost of living, environment, lots of things are on the agenda,

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Speaker 3: but it seems that COVID isn't. Australia has the highest

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Speaker 3: per capita COVID rate of infection. At the moment, more

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Speaker 3: than six point four to five million Australians have contracted

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Speaker 3: the virus. We wish it was going away, but it isn't.

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Speaker 3: But we are getting on with our lives. Should it, however,

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Speaker 3: be part of policy do? I mean, do we need

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Speaker 3: to be putting this on the front page? Have we

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Speaker 3: forgotten it? And does that matter?

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Speaker 2: Does this pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: I think we're pretty sick of hearing about COVID. I

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Speaker 1: think we just have to live with it. I know,

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Speaker 1: if people are dying every day, but more in Ukraine

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Speaker 1: and we're all worried about COVID, so I think the

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Speaker 1: politicians really want to discuss more.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it does. I mean, it's such an

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Speaker 4: important topic and something that's still around and numbers are

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Speaker 4: still high, so it definitely should be on the agenda.

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Speaker 5: I think it's wonderful. I think people have had enough.

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Speaker 5: I know COVID is real. It's very real. It's not

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Speaker 5: going to make COVID go away. COVID it's gonna end

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Speaker 5: up being, you know, the flu with everybody getting in

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Speaker 5: the entire world.

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Speaker 6: And you just can't keep shutting down your civilizations and

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Speaker 6: shutting down reality because of COVID.

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Speaker 5: Ah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that we still should be looking at

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Speaker 6: people are still suffering and there's still going up, and

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Speaker 6: something should always be looking at