• With BA.4 and BA.5 COVID variants rising in transmission, we chat about if mandates are needed - and why wearing masks might make a huge difference in the long run.

• Also! Splendour In The Grass is back, but with new restrictions which means under-18 ticket holders need a guardian with them at all times. Fair or yet another attack on music festivals?

Show Notes

• ‘Not just another wave’: Australia’s Covid hospitalisations reach record levels in several states
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/16/not-just-another-wave-australias-covid-hospitalisations-reach-record-levels-in-several-states
  
  
• Splendour in the Grass: claim organisers didn’t know about under-18s rule contradicted by NSW authorities
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/15/splendour-in-the-grass-claim-organisers-didnt-know-about-under-18s-rule-contradicted-by-nsw-authorities
  
  

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