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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

I see there are still frontline workers arranging meets through FAB ,is this not considered irresposible if you are working with vunerable people? Why go to the bother of telling people you are a Key worker and should be respected ,if you clearly are selfish and only think of yourself??

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

jazus and whats worse it puts favvers at risk

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By *DSGCouple over a year ago

That place in

Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

We are allowed to meet as long as it is 2m away so dont really see what you are getting at just because someone advertises a meet doesnt mean that its a play meet it can simply be a coffee and a chat so no dont think we are taking anymore risks than anyone else keep 2m distance and wash your hands and wear a mask where is the danger

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature "

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so.

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

It is safe to do so at a 2m distance the government has told us so so think you are barking up the wrong tree ifs never going to be 100% safe to meet so just because someine is a frontline worker they should go out and meet others thats not realistic this virus is going to be around until a vaccine is found so what we are aupposed to live like hermits just because we choose to do a job that involves helping others

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

And for the recors i take my role very seriously otherwise i wouldnt be in it 19yrs

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By *oxic1998Woman over a year ago

Belfast

All well and good at work taking the precautions. When they are wearing their uniform and not using the sanitizer around the shops as i saw yesterday in my hometown then I would be concerned

As for meeting up for a fab meet, I'd hope they would have had a shower before

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By *ilthyNightsCouple over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so."

You want to stop all front line workers from meeting new people even when maintaining 2m distancing is that right?

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so.

You want to stop all front line workers from meeting new people even when maintaining 2m distancing is that right? "

Yes 100% ,got to follow the FAB rules,or what's the point?

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman over a year ago

My town

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so.

You want to stop all front line workers from meeting new people even when maintaining 2m distancing is that right?

Yes 100% ,got to follow the FAB rules,or what's the point?"
to be honest everyone should be as careful as a frontline worker ...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so.

You want to stop all front line workers from meeting new people even when maintaining 2m distancing is that right?

Yes 100% ,got to follow the FAB rules,or what's the point?"

You mean UK government guidelines - because they had done a spot on job of handling the pandemic in their own country.

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By *ustBoWoman over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

All well and good at work taking the precautions. When they are wearing their uniform and not using the sanitizer around the shops as i saw yesterday in my hometown then I would be concerned

As for meeting up for a fab meet, I'd hope they would have had a shower before "

They were more than likely home care help who actually do shopping for people they care for. Most others are not allowed to wear uniforms outside of where they work at present. They have to change in work and their uniforms and their own clothes are actually sanitised every day.

And you would hope anyone not just frontline having a meet even a social would have the sense to have a shower before meeting would have thought thay was common courtesy even before covid that should be the norm.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Let people do what they want, if you don't want to meet don't. I see people both Frontline and not Frontline calling to friends etc and getting on with life and no issue.

The virus ain't going anywhere we all just need to take responsibility for our own actions and stop judging others by theirs.

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

Mr blue sept im not saying that they have done a good job far far from it i think they should be taken up for the way they have handled the whole situation but as they make the rules whether we like it or not thats what we have to follow

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By *ustBoWoman over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

"Let people do what they want, if you don't want to meet don't. I see people both Frontline and not Frontline calling to friends etc and getting on with life and no issue.

The virus ain't going anywhere we all just need to take responsibility for our own actions and stop judging others by theirs. "

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

People have too much time on their hands if everyone was back at work and busy they wouldnt have time to judge others everyone is responsible for their own actions noone has the right to judge anyone

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Mr blue sept im not saying that they have done a good job far far from it i think they should be taken up for the way they have handled the whole situation but as they make the rules whether we like it or not thats what we have to follow "

The point I was making was that FAB rules are based on recommendations of a foreign country. Not the country that the user is actually based in.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so.

You want to stop all front line workers from meeting new people even when maintaining 2m distancing is that right?

Yes 100% ,got to follow the FAB rules,or what's the point?"

Personally I think it's harsh calling out a front line worker for talking to someone at 2m distance. Maybe that's just me.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I think if Responsible Frontline workers/Heroes want to meet who ever they want then that's entirely up to them.

They are under life threatening danger and are tested ( horribly) every week and use sanitised new wear every shift.

They are stressed out and no real psychological help to help cope with being on a war frontline..

If meeting people helps them occasionly distress then my best wishes to them.

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By *-ManMan over a year ago

Kark

What's the actual issue here?

Is it that a FLW used fab to arrange a meet? Would using another platform be ok?

Or is it that they posted about being a FLW and then arranged a meet?

Or is it that they arranged a meet but not with the OP?

Look I'm not a FLW but I do work alongside them and as hard and as scary as all this covid shit seems, life has to go on to some degree. FLWs had needs too

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Bet the OP wasn't the slightest bit concerned about health care workers when about a week ago they were told they'd start being charged extortionate car parking rates again or 2 weeks ago when they were told they weren't getting a payrise this year.....but the Op done his part by standing at his front door a few times clapping

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

Very well said exactly noone knows what so frontline workers have been through the last few months most of us live on our own so dont have a partner or family to go home to and chat about our day most of us dont want to phone our families and friends to tell them either because we dont want them worrying about us i have seen things and been part of things that i never thought i would ever of been in my life so if i want to meet up with a friend for a social meet at a distance i think i have earned the right and i wont be judged by anyone for it

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

"Bet the OP wasn't the slightest bit concerned about health care workers when about a week ago they were told they'd start being charged extortionate car parking rates again or 2 weeks ago when they were told they weren't getting a payrise this year.....but the Op done his part by standing at his front door a few times clapping

Not at all ,that was a propoganda exercise dreamt up by Dom Cummings and co,i didn't fall for that ,in fact it was condescending if anything to think clapping was going to make things seem ok.Car parking charges have nothing to do with Covid ,and should be free to all HCW imo.

Of course HCW can meet people and talk if they desire,follow sensible precautions,but if you're working with elderly or vunerable,arranging different meets with different people,social or not,it's a bit irresposible in my opinion

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By *ilthyNightsCouple over a year ago

East / North, Cork

You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing.

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By *oxic1998Woman over a year ago

Belfast

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

All well and good at work taking the precautions. When they are wearing their uniform and not using the sanitizer around the shops as i saw yesterday in my hometown then I would be concerned

As for meeting up for a fab meet, I'd hope they would have had a shower before

No they were not.....I know the difference in uniforms

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By *ontbesillywrapyourwillyMan over a year ago

Tipperary

People have very little enjoyment at the moment. They're trying to get their lives back to some normality and I don't blame anyone for that. Living like a hermet was bad enough for 3 months without having to do it until a vaccine comes or potentially forever.

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By *oxic1998Woman over a year ago

Belfast

As long as they are responsible and take the necessary precautions let them be. If your not happy meeting anyone from that profession then don't.....simple

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By *ontbesillywrapyourwillyMan over a year ago

Tipperary

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing. "
and the point also has to be said that social distancing is going out the window and again I can see why. Social distancing is not something that comes normally to humans and if you were to think how near you are to somebody all the time, you would become very very paranoid.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I reckon front line workers probably need a good ride more than anyone right now tbh.

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By *ranco82Man over a year ago

belfast

Key workers at Timsons have been known to screw a door lock. Just saying...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Ffs you block profiles so you dont have to see their shite updates on your feed on an almost daily basis.

And you still encounter the drivel on here.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing. "

Nonsense, droplets can travel more than 2m depending on the environment.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing.

Nonsense, droplets can travel more than 2m depending on the environment. "

OK.. Its extremely unlikely, but technically possible, to catch corvid19 when 2m away from someone. In real terms the likelihood that that person has corvid19, and that enough droplets containing enough virus to infect at 2m is ridiculously tiny.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing.

Nonsense, droplets can travel more than 2m depending on the environment.

Not at all. Depending on the environment, outdoors or indoors and the duration of time you are in that person's presence for.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple over a year ago

East / North, Cork

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing.

Nonsense, droplets can travel more than 2m depending on the environment.

Not at all. Depending on the environment, outdoors or indoors and the duration of time you are in that person's presence for. "

Sure lol. If you take turns spitting in each others mouths or something.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"bit irresposible in my opinion"

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I see there are still frontline workers arranging meets through FAB ,is this not considered irresposible if you are working with vunerable people? Why go to the bother of telling people you are a Key worker and should be respected ,if you clearly are selfish and only think of yourself??"

Get away with your shite . It was us Frontline workers that kept working while the rest of the country went into lockdown And some of us we were shielding vulnerable family members while having to continue to do our jobs . It’s ok to expect me to work throughout This pandemic but I’m not allowed to socially distance Meet People ? Even though it’s allowed ? And even though we understand better than anyone about infection , prevention and control , hand sanitisation and have full use of PPE ?

And Believe me it’s not often a man gets closer than 2 meters to me on a meet Never mind gets into my knickers so don’t worry your little brain anymore about it .

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

If most people would clean their own doorstep before getting involved in everyone else's the world would be a much nicer place! Do what you feel is right for you, if you can live with yourself and have no regrets surely that is all that matters? If you want to meet others socially do that, if you want to socially isolate then do that! Don't broadcast what you are or aren't doing!! Simples!

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!"

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

I wish to apologise for my forum post yesterday,it was something that got misconstrued and wasn't meant to offend anyone who has worked tirelessly throughout the Covid pandemic.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

I wish to apologise for my forum post yesterday,it was something that got misconstrued and wasn't meant to offend anyone who has worked tirelessly throughout the Covid pandemic."

It was meant or intended or directed at someone or some persons though.

You just didn't realise the backlash you'd face.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"You know the virus isn't transmitted past 2m right? That's the whole point of social distancing.

Nonsense, droplets can travel more than 2m depending on the environment. "

In infection prevention and control terms they cant - over those distances its aerosol - technical detail I know but there is so much pseudoscience being thrown around. [The science behind this virus is evolving and changing]

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Yes true, rules are rules

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By *rmrspumpCouple over a year ago

narnia

Reading between the lines I'd say you've a chip on your shoulder about someone in particular, sour grapes perhaps? Either way, this thread isn't doing you any favours

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Reading between the lines I'd say you've a chip on your shoulder about someone in particular, sour grapes perhaps? Either way, this thread isn't doing you any favours"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so."

Because people don't care.

Your average person talks a big game about ethics and morals and what people should or shouldn't do but it's all crap.

So some frontline worker would tell others to social distance but gladly meet if he was getting his hole.

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By *mooth Operator 07Man over a year ago

in the deep mist of the valleys

"Very well said exactly noone knows what so frontline workers have been through the last few months most of us live on our own so dont have a partner or family to go home to and chat about our day most of us dont want to phone our families and friends to tell them either because we dont want them worrying about us i have seen things and been part of things that i never thought i would ever of been in my life so if i want to meet up with a friend for a social meet at a distance i think i have earned the right and i wont be judged by anyone for it "

I applaud you and I know where exactly where your coming from.

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By *mooth Operator 07Man over a year ago

in the deep mist of the valleys

I personally think frontline workers are more aware of their responsibility to the public, than many people think. Im not saying others are not. But to dictate who can and can not meet, is a bit ridiculous.

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By *hoenix-rising OP Man over a year ago

Co.Down

Reading between the lines I'd say you've a chip on your shoulder about someone in particular, sour grapes perhaps? Either way, this thread isn't doing you any favours"

Don't read between the lines ,i was trying to point out the hypocrisy that i see constantly on these threads ,but was maybe ill judged and should have said nothing,lesson learned !

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By *ontbesillywrapyourwillyMan over a year ago

Tipperary

Any female frontline workers need dinner cooked for them, I'm your man. Pop me a mail.

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By *luebell888Woman over a year ago

Glasgowish

"Would it still not count if non frontline workers still meet and went home and gave Covid-19 to a family member? At least the frontline workers are been careful with PPE and taking their temperature

Of course,but my point is,if you're working as a Health Care Worker,surely you should take that role seriously and stop all meeting until it is safe to do so."

No. Why should frontline workers be punished. This could go on for years. We are human too and meeting for socials is not putting anyone at risk. Most including myself are getting tested weekly now as well.

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By *lassy lady 216Woman over a year ago

Craigavon

Exactly we are probably the most safest people to be meeting at the present time

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By *anKinkyMan over a year ago

Carrick on Shannon

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By *ontbesillywrapyourwillyMan over a year ago

Tipperary

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I wish to apologise for my forum post yesterday,it was something that got misconstrued and wasn't meant to offend anyone who has worked tirelessly throughout the Covid pandemic.

It was meant or intended or directed at someone or some persons though.

You just didn't realise the backlash you'd face.

100%

Weird how he thinks every single one of us that has replied to this are in the wrong because we misconstrued his actual meaning

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By *he English OneMan over a year ago

west

Surely that's their business the same as someone that isn't on the frontline probably more cautious than anything let's be less judgemental of others

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By *he English OneMan over a year ago

west

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

I didn't know this place was some kind of competition to see who can get the most meets or have I missed something

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By *eebawMan over a year ago

Frontline workers will take hand sanitising, masks and precautions more so than the regular joe soap as it is routein for us at the frontline now .

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By *aid backMan over a year ago

by a lake with my rod out

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

You've practically no meets yourself there buddy before you try to down play people's in put by the number of meets they've had you only have 6 from 2 years ago so climb down off the very low horse you're on

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By *he English OneMan over a year ago

west

"bit irresposible in my opinion

Opinion are like arseholes, everyones got one and everyone thinks theirs doesn't stink....but just look at the replies....pretty much everyone is telling you that yours stinks!

Got a debate going though...how you getting on with meets mate? oh none i see

It's great how some feel their meet count makes them better than you this virus has really scrambled the minds lol

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