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Interesting, interesting. Tell me, I was really interested in perhaps also some of the numbers, we spoke a little bit about, you know, the 20 and 30% increases and that you’ve experienced and life line experience. Is there any other sort of stats or high level numbers that you would like to share with us today on what you are seeing recently in his mental health space? I’d be really interested in understanding anything like that that might be available.

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Yeah. And again, it’s following that consistent, sad trend. So we we’ve been screening people on reporting loneliness, as a result of these lockdowns. And people self reporting loneliness, compared to last year stats have again increased from one in five, they’ve increased one in four. So we are seeing, you know, this prolonged lockdown starting to impact on people from that. Just loneliness. And I’ve said to my wife several times, consider ourselves very lucky that, you know, we’re connected. We’ve got a family, I live within the same LGA. So same like, like, yeah, local government area as my extended family. There are people out there that are really lonely. And I think loneliness is one of the hardest things for someone to go through. On top of that, statistically, we’ve seen more females starting to reach out for for support than males and I don’t think that has anything to do with females are being more impacted by what we’re all going through, but possibly still some of that stereotype of males not speaking up and sort of bottling these things in. Whereas, perhaps females are a bit more on the front foot in touch with their emotions and reaching out for that support.