*serious

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Anonymous #2 1d

Man cruise ships are just floating Petri dishes. Feels like every few years there’s an outbreak like this on one of em

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Anonymous #2 1d

Bunch of people packed in close quarters touching the same surfaces and stuff. Or breathing on each other or fucking

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Anonymous #2 1d

I guess it helps that they also pack people of different nationalities from all over onto them

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research the virus before u say anything. you are the type of person to be carry it based on ignorance alone🫩. no one wants to chance 40% morality when public health is underfund asf rn

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Anonymous #4 1d

Wtf does researching the virus have to do with leaving sick people to die on a boat. Seriously you guys make me feel like I’m in a simulation sometimes. You idiots are literally scared of something that’s killed 3 people thousands of miles away across an ocean. Take your own advice my God

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Damn yeah we don’t want a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the population to suffer when we could put over 8 billion at risk

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How about quarantine anyone who has likely exposure to the virus, on land or on a cruise ship. One possible way this could happen would be, idk, being on a fucking cruise ship with an outbreak??

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not without having them dock and expose the disease to who knows how many others. disease spreads FAST, especially given how many people we come into some form of contact with in a day. i say keep them on the boat until they're cleared, and then they can dock. until then it's quarantine vacation for them

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Yeah but quarantines fail, people disregard medical advice. They’re on a ship, sucks to suck, but they’re not getting anyone sick!

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Respectfully I think we all lived through covid, I don’t want to live through a covid with an almost 40% death rate. My entire family got covid twice, despite us social distancing. If it was hantavirus we probably would’ve lost someone.

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Wow so with many unknowns maybe we should make worst case decisions until we can safely decide otherwise!

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We definitely can keep them on the boat

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Anonymous #4 1d

U should research this disease cuz clearly u haven’t. The disease rarely spreads from person to person, it is mainly spread by contact with infected rodent waste, so the threat of them docking isn’t ANYWHERE near as high as Covid or any flu virus. Secondly, sacrifice the few to potentially save the many is fucking morbid. Try ur best to save everyone always

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Anonymous #12 23h

Well based off that, if only infected rodents can give it to humans that means there are rodents on the boat? It’s infected 3 people leading them to die either they had this disease or received it while on the boat, then apparently 4 others have been affected so I can see where it may sound like it can be transmitted human to human then considering viruses mutate….We don’t have enough info yet obviously, even the news headlines are not helping with over exaggeration of instant death 😭

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Anonymous #2 23h

Scared of something that’s across the ocean? You mean like Covid started across the ocean?

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So a quick google search the cdc says 1 in 110,000 will die of norovirus. While (according to World Health Organization) hantavirus is up to 50% in the americas. I’d argue one is a bit more fear worthy

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So fyi viruses are notorious for mutating, causing unknowns.

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Correct, people didn’t freak out about an illness where nobody died, people are worried about an illness with a high mortality rate

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Anonymous #13 23h

They quite literally said honey fuck it we've already spent 1,000+ we might as well make it count! As they harmoniously throw up together

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Anonymous #12 23h

Yeah well the world is morbid, people die of horrific diseases all the time. You rarely can save everyone. You gotta learn how the world works broski

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Anonymous #6 23h

If you guys actually knew anything about what you were talking about you’d know that’s cause to be less worried about a broader outbreak. And that diseases with high mortality tend to have significantly diminished communicability bc the patients are too sick to go out and spread it. Unlike asymptomatic covid. Not to mention you have to have prolonged close contact and touching to get this. You’re not going to get it by walking past somebody in a hallway. These people got it trapped on a small sh

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Anonymous #2 23h

ship of only 150 people. 🙄😒

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Anonymous #6 23h

Literally tells me “viruses are notorious for mutating” a fact everybody knows and doesn’t even realize or acknowledge that both illnesses previously mentioned are viral infections 😒. Gee thanks

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Anonymous #2 23h

How many people died from the norovirus example you gave

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Anonymous #10 23h

Are you unable to read or just that annoying and foul. Touch grass

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Anonymous #2 23h

Both were viral only one has a 40% mortality rate… what is your point. Idk abt you but I’m more willing to risk some relatively mild symptoms then a painful death

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Anonymous #2 23h

I think their point was how one of them is 44,000 times more likely to kill you…

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Anonymous #6 23h

What is yours. Maybe just shutup

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Anonymous #2 23h

Holy rage bait 💀

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Anonymous #7 23h

This person actually thinks it's impossible to quarantine them "without having them dock and expose the disease to who knows how many others" Actually it's completely possible. people train and build careers around this. Are you people serious. How do 30 + of you upvote this. I can't believe we're of the same species. Proper PPE and quarantine protocols exist…

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Anonymous #6 23h

Ikr 💀, how many replies are you at by now

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Anonymous #2 23h

In my defense a majority of the population is as dense as you’re hopefully acting

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Anonymous #6 23h

You’re triggered af rn go for a walk and put down the phone

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Anonymous #2 23h

Extremely mad, there’s quite literally steam coming out of my ears

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Anonymous #2 23h

Like what does that even mean, “…is as dense as you’re hopefully acting”. You’re not a nice person. You’re not smart. You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re an angry emotional troll who enjoys being mean and being a keyboard warrior on the internet despite how it affects anyone else. Try taking a look at yourself in the mirror before you start throwing stones. Which you do literally everyday while smugly giving your own atrocious behavior a pass. While being the worst of us

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Anonymous #6 22h

they’re not getting anyone sick but it’s spreading? they are harvesting whatever bacteria on that boat & can keep it. the disease kills 50% it infects.

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Anonymous #6 22h

We know, we can tell

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Anonymous #6 22h

And I didn’t even ask you how mad you are lol

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Anonymous #12 22h

and they are still trying to figure out how tf it spread.

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Yo u need anger management bad. And u need to learn how to communicate effectively without swearing… ur an adult no?

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Anonymous #17 22h

Also need to learn when enough is enough and when to accept you’re wrong.

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Anonymous #18 22h

Smartest person in this comment section btw

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Anonymous #16 22h

Wrong about what? I just called u out. Stop spewing bs. Have a good day weirdo😭

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Anonymous #17 22h

I think they were on ur side

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Anonymous #22 21h

None of us are looking for a sequel lmao

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Anonymous #12 21h

The bubonic plague was from fleas on rodents too, they spread fast. Viruses mutate. They should be quarantined until virologists know more and potentially figure out a way to prevent any spread. Honestly if you have to be quarantined, a cruise ship doesn’t seem like the worst place to be stuck.

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Anonymous #18 21h

I’d be down for like a week long sequel, but no longer, and definitely not with a 40% lethality!

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You wanna go get on the boat?

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Anonymous #5 21h

Dude finals are over for most of us

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Anonymous #25 21h

I wish man still got the rest of this week then finals week

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Anonymous #18 21h

Ever heard of how many people go missing on them and are never found?

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Anonymous #25 21h

Also, Hantavirus comes from consuming rodent urine. The entire cruise ship line needs to be shut down immediately for health code violations.

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Anonymous #25 21h

Yes unfortunately

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Anonymous #2 21h

They should just dock at your house, you seem lovely

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Anonymous #23 21h

a cruise ship is a great place to be quarantined… until they stop providing cruise ship food and amenities. agree that they should stay where they are, and receive medical assistance on board, though.

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Anonymous #2 21h

maybe someone would be willing to listen to you if you weren't calling everyone else so moronic that they must not be human. your hostility makes your argument almost untrustworthy... ad hominem. constructive arguments are not done this way

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Anonymous #6 21h

Damn, sucks to suck

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Anonymous #7 20h

This one spreads like an std, not through the air

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Anonymous #11 20h

This disease has existed since the 50’s, widespread transmission is a complete non isssue. Bring ppl ashore and treat them, u have no idea what ur talking about

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Anonymous immortal.snail 20h

it’s more accurate to say it’s transmitted through fluids (rodent to human) than “like an STD”, since the latter will make people think it’s transmitted through sexual contact.

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Anonymous #2 19h

Weird comment. As if outbreaks are a result of DEI versus poor bacteria management

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Anonymous #2 19h

Point is if they dock they can spread it to all of the nations that everyone on the boat goes home too. Diseases spread like wildfire so it's thousands of miles away rn but when they go home they all go home to different places

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Anonymous #2 18h

Bro shut up 🫩

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Anonymous #43 18h

I mostly agree, but I’d bet anything that ship gets the worlds best extermination lol

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Anonymous #12 18h

If you volunteer you and your family to be the ones helping these people off a boat and making sure none of the violate quarantine then sure! Otherwise, don’t be so quick to offer up other people as sacrifices that will have to deal with the outbreak on board if the ship docks.

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Anonymous #2 18h

The high mortality rate leading to less spread bc people are too sick to move is just speculation. Truth it if that wad the case then the black death wouldn’t have done shit, but instead it wiped out half of europe. Why? Because people don’t give a shit and will go around anyways. Or it spreads to their caregivers who then can spread it more before they enter the death stage. Proper PPE can still fail and people can also do the thing called disobeying quarantine bc they don’t care.

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Anonymous #13 18h

Update, a man in Switzerland who was on the boat and left early has contracted the Andes strain of the hantavirus (which is the human to human) is home in Switzerland, currently in the phase of back tracing his steps to see everyone he potentially came in contact with for further investigation. We are screwed.

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Anonymous #2 18h

You are under the assumption the sick people actually understand disease and care enough to obey quarantine, which from what we’ve seen from covid is clearly not the case. You should volunteer to get on the ship to care for them if you care that much but don’t go around sacrificing other people.

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Anonymous #16 18h

Bc some people are idiots and would let the person with the bite mark and foaming mouth into the shelter during the zombie apocalypse

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Anonymous #44 18h

Again u clearly don’t understand this disease. Ppl don’t need to be quarantined. It doesn’t spread like that. We have like 200k cases of this disease annually. It’s not a big deal to dock and let them get treatment. I repeat transmission has never been a big concern with this disease

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Anonymous #44 18h

The black plague still exists u fucking idiot. It’s just not a problem in modern civilization because we don’t live in literal shit and piss. In ancient Europe ppl used to live on top of each other in extremely disgusting cities with both human and animal waste all over the place, THAT is why it spread so much. Those circumstances are not an issue now. It’s the same with this disease.

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Anonymous #12 18h

I’m aware it exists, but we actually have good treatment for it now unlike the hantavirus where we don’t have that. Now understand that in a cruise ship they’re living right on top of each other? Hopefully not in shit and piss but they are all mingling very germy. Also the plague didn’t spread through that anyways, idiot.

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Anonymous #12 18h

And yet somehow they all still spread onto the ship in the first place causing and outbreak, but you’re saying an outbreak is not possible. Explain that? Go volunteer yourself to help out.

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Anonymous #1 18h

The people on it need medical attention, I’m not saying everyone should be allowed to run free, they should be quarentined until deemed safe but people are DYING

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Anonymous #12 18h

I think youre the one that doesnt understand disease buddy. People do need to be quarantined. We have 200k cases even after measures are in place because this shit still spreads. Or alternative, let help go to them instead of unleashing the disease onto innocent people? Again if you are willing to risk it you should volunteer to go onboard and help them since apparently you understand disease so much better than the college forum packed with biology students

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Anonymous #46 18h

They can fly out help to them which is safer than letting the ship dock and have any opportunity for the disease to spread to land

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Anonymous #44 18h

I’m assuming, or at least hoping, Spains PM intends to quarantine those onboard to prevent potential spreading. If they do not then…yeah it’s dumb and reckless

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Anonymous #44 17h

Idk what country u live in but we don’t have any measure to prevent hantavirus here in the US. It’s not a concern. In a cruise ship of thousands of ppl, only 5 have gotten it and they are all living on top of each other in an extremely dirty environment. The spread of person to person is rly not a concern, multiple ppl have gotten it cuz they are living in the same contaminated environment. I don’t think ur understanding this

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Anonymous #45 17h

I vote purple where you make them separate into two teams and have them fight it out like Hijacked in BO2 for a cure.

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Anonymous #29 17h

They wouldn’t need to land with a helicopter at all if they didn’t want to, they have flight paramedics who are specifically trained in rappelling who could drop themselves down or supplies down even. More common in search and rescue but not unlikely for standard flight paramedics. Another boat would probably be safest anyways, less vertical risk

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Anonymous #45 17h

And everyone called me crazy for being honest and saying that I would pick red. Ppl who pick blue are just being performative, as soon as it’s something that could actually threaten them like this, you see how people really feel. “Sink that shit idgaf”

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Anonymous #48 17h

People just be forgetting the option of having a helicopter land on the ship to treat them. There is no reason to dock and you can still save the people on board without risking others. It’s a win win.

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Anonymous #11 16h

You can’t keep people on a ship that is having a virus spread through rodent excrement (meaning most likely a contaminated food source) to quarantine because the virus is already present, there is no quarantine and if you force people to stay on said boat and consume food from the on board pantry’s then anyone who does become infected and dies is on your hands, because you forced them to stay on a boat with limited food and known possible contamination in the food available.

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Anonymous #44 16h

so what happens to the help once they’ve gone to help them? Are you just gonna leave boatloads/helicopters full of aid workers on the ship because they’ve been exposed now? Get real.

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Anonymous #6 15h

You’re using logic? On yikyak?? You’re in the wrong place buddy lmao

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Anonymous #25 14h

they searched the entire ship and didn’t find any rodents so they’ve determined it’s probably Andes Virus (a sub strain of Hantavirus) which can transmit human to human

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Anonymous #59 11h

Nah blow em up, 40% mortality with treatment

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Anonymous #6 10h

Dawg, it’s not like hantavirus has never been seen before, it’s barely cintagious and almost never spreads between humans

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Anonymous #25 10h

Yeah but it doesn’t transmit from human to human, basically just rat poop transmits it

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Anonymous #21 10h

It’s like 400 people are you genuinely a psychopath?

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Anonymous #60 10h

Trolley problem. 400 or 8,000,000,000

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Anonymous #13 10h

You are a sick piece of shit brother. You can’t view everything as numbers that is thousends of human lives, likely with families and lives to go back to that you are joking about murdering when a million other solutions are possible

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Anonymous #60 10h

Ehem sister here actually. Great so there were only 150ish people on the boat, so not thousands of lives but there will be hundreds of thousands of deaths should we not properly consider the situation. I’m not joking I’m serious, 150 lives don’t outweigh millions. Quarantine the fuckers or sink the ship.

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Anonymous #15 10h

Is there a known cure like if it’s similar to the Black Death or something else spread by rodents could we make a vaccine or smth

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Anonymous #59 10h

no known cure, no known treatment. better not to agonize over the possibility of it causing a global epidemic though

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Anonymous #28 9h

It doesn’t spread like that lmao. U get it from contact with infected rat feces. It won’t cause a global pandemic

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Anonymous #12 8h

the andes variant (which is the one on the ship) is the one that can be spread human to human🥀

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Anonymous #7 8h

It’s still exceptionally rare and requires close prolonged contact to spread from human to human

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Anonymous #12 8h

So I guess that makes it ok since only a couple people will die this time right? You sound insane

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Anonymous #44 8h

What? Exact opposite of my argument. It doesn’t pose a big threat to the greater public because it’s not very transmissible so they should dock and try to treat the sick humans instead of just let them die because they don’t wanna risk the spread

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Anonymous #12 3h

It spread to someone on the airplane 2 rows back

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