There's a saying going around that it's the hope that kills you - and certainly, fans of the Scotland, Sweden, France, Netherlands and German football teams at the European Championships would concur.Of course, it's nonsensense. If anything kills you, it's complacency. You walk around feeling like you're immune and then you find out the person sitting next to you in a cafe definitely wasn't virus-free, and your attitude changes quickly.So in this week’s podcast Sue and I chat about what it’s like to be self-quarantining (we were deemed to have been close contacts with an infected person) and ask why NSW Health doesn’t want to tell people in apartments just to take a few minor sensible extra precautions.LISTEN HEREWe also look at the tragic and terrible apartment block collapse in Miami and what that might and maybe should mean for buildings of the same age constructed in a similar fashion here in Australia.Interestingly, a comment piece by our very good friend and strata expert Cathy Sherry appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald the day after we recorded our podcast, and it pretty much confirms everything we were saying.Meanwhile, I’ll just take a break from self-congratulation to point out an error I made in the podcast where I referred to the apartment block in Melbourne’ Southbank as Kings Court.I should have said Kings Park. If you Google “Kings Court” you might find a very different kind of establishment … so don’t! No! I said don't! Or at least remember to clean up your search history when you're done.TRANSCRIPT IN FULLJimmy 0:00 It's very quiet today.Sue 0:01 It really is!Jimmy 0:03 It's quieter than normal, when we do our podcast.Sue 0:09 And that's because we're in Sydney.Jimmy 0:10 And, we're in the middle of lockdown-central.Sue 0:13 Absolutely!Jimmy 0:14 Even more lockdown than most people, because we are actually in quarantine. We are in quarantine, because of close contact. We spend half our lives in cafes, and it was bound to happen, sooner or later.Sue 0:28 An infected person was in the cafe at the same time as us, apparently.Jimmy 0:32 Let's talk about that in a minute, and we're going to talk about this tragedy; this horrible tragedy, in Miami. I'm Jimmy Thomson, I write the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review.Sue 0:46 And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain.Jimmy 0:48 And this is the Flat Chat Wrap.[MUSIC}JimmyWell, while our theme music was playing, there was a very atmospheric ambulance siren in the background. Kind of appropriate, but difficult to edit. We had that heart-sink feeling, earlier last week, when we looked at the list of places where infected people had been at and discovered we had been in the same cafe at the same time.Sue 1:28 It was a bit depressing, wasn't it, really?Jimmy 1:30 It was a bit alarming, because we didn't really know what to do.Sue 1:35 It was funny, because we didn't receive a notice through our apps, because we'd signed in. I think the app was a bit faulty, or it blipped, or something and it missed it. So, it was up to us to look up where we'd been and the times; work out with our diaries, whether that was the same time as well and then voluntarily go into qu
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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