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Writer, Civil Nuclear Engineer, Podcast Host, Energy Analyst,

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@hkrugertjie
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The holocaust started in Namibia, where 40% of the population died at the hands of the German Second Reich. The administrator of Deutsche Süd West Africa, was the father of Herman Göring.
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@hkrugertjie
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look at all the dinosaur juice discovered offshore of South Africa and Namibia.. Why shouldn't we exploit it?
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The simple reason that they do not like Nuclear Power is that there is no money to steal. The way that the contracts are setup is that it forces compliances, due diligence and virtually locks out any crony capitalist from Davos. Let a Nuclear Civil Engineer explain why.
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@hkrugertjie
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A more honest title would be "President's brother in law rent-seeks in the renewable electricity market"
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@hkrugertjie
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South Africa is pivoting back to energy realism: King Coal remains supreme.
@jacob_maroga
Jacob Maroga
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The @Eskom_SA board decision to delay the decommissioning of coal stations is probably one of the most critical steps in restoring Energy Security in RSA. #EnergyLeadership
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Eskom's Diesel usage is not increasing,
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Interesting to note who is funding South Africa's Presidential Climate Commission and the so called green policies.
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The South African Presidential Climate Commission is openly admitting to using "storytelling", aka propaganda to influence public opinion.
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I cannot think of anything more racist and more colonial than punishing a country that produces 1% of the world's C02 in this way 2/3rd of all young men in South Africa are unemployed, the majoriy of them black. Yet the West cares about carbon?
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@hkrugertjie
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@NickHudsonCT the PCR test cannot pinpoint down a virus to begin with, that's my thinking it's mostly a scamdemic!
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That's because the Germans are paying for two systems and not one? There is a premium for reliability.
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Someone recently told me that Germany has the highest electricity prices in the world. I went to check and found it's wrong... we're second, one cent per kWh behind Denmark 😬 Source:
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@hkrugertjie
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@RnaudBertrand There is obviously nothing suspicious about a CIA director, who is known to plot coups, that serves on the commission that investigates the death of a president who recently fired him. If you think otherwise, you're a conspiracy theorist.
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@tan123 The elephant in the room is that the temperature set is being adjusted to make the past look cooler. All these theories remain irrelevant if the data doesn't have integrity,
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@hkrugertjie
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Johannesburg International Airport, It's official, Rugby is South Africa's state religion.
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The more I travel through Iran, the more obvious it is why Iranians do support their government. Iran is still mostly a rural society that's achieved, under sanctions, more than most developing countries, full electrification and near universal education in particular for girls.
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"The agreement to help South Africa transition away from the use of coal consists of $8.8 billion in climate finance pledged by the European Union via the EIB, France, Germany, the US, the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark." How is this NOT colonialism?
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In the light of the #JFK revelations, As Mark Crispin Miller explained to me the term "conspiracy theorist" and "denialist" is used to silence those who question the official government narrative.
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I am proud that South Africa is emitting c02, and in fact we should up our rate if we care about developing the country and the African continent. The NGO Industrial Complex should not be denying us the the technology that the Western World greedily consumed to become wealthy.
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South Africa emits more carbon dioxide per unit of electricity produced than any other country, contributing disproportionately to greenhouse gases and climate change ⁦ @IEA
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Meet 80y.o Yazdan Taleshi (یزدان طالشی) who lives in Ramsar's Talesh Mahalleh district, where the background radiation is 250 milisievert. His house is the most radioactive home in the world making him arguable the most radioactive person on earth. Living evidence of Hormesis.
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it's a great tragedy that the material that brought us the industrial revolution, that increased human life expectancy by 30-40 years is being demonized by a bunch of influential luddites who have managed to capture public policy.
@AngelicaOung
Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼
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COAL IN THE AGE OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION There’s no fuel more spurned and despised. We’re trying to leave coal behind. Yet 2022 was a record year for for global consumption. Let’s learn more about the fuel we love to hate, but can’t seem to quit. 🧵
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@hkrugertjie
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Excellent news, South Africans showed the world how to boycott corruption and beat the medical mafia.
@eNCA
eNCA
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Time is running out for millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses that expire in a few weeks. Health Minister Joe Phaahla says 8.5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine will have to be destroyed by end of October. Wits' Francois Venter says it's a shocking indictment of a failed system.
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The beautiful clean coal of South Africa, being exported to provide reliable electricity in the world's most intermittent markets.
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The rich coalfields of Southern Africa, Let's be clear, not burning coal for the foreseeable future, is not an option.
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It's always beautiful to see a coal power station back in full operation.
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Yesterday was a remarkable day for Kriel Power Station, as all units were operational after a long period. Kudos to the Power Station General Manager, Ms Morongwe Raphasha, and her team for their excellent work, which has contributed to the improved energy availability factor. 🙌🏾
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@hkrugertjie
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BEE is just legalised extortion and rentseeking.
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MultiChoice is just SABC that went to private school.
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@amnesty Apartheid was a labour system that evolved on the South African farms and later the mines, it was planned via the doctrine of separate development that included job reservation, infrastructure etc. Comparing Israel's situation to it makes AI look a bit silly.
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@hkrugertjie
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The price of fearmongering?
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Remember guys "Nuclear is too slow"
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@DeanMacpherson Naledi Pandor deserves respect for balancing the realpolitik, SA can achieve much more through peaceful engagement with Russia than the western attitude of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian,
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Koeberg Powerstation has zebras around it, yet radiation is dangerous?
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Remember guys, "nuclear cannot load follow"
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The issue with Nuclear is that it solves all the problems......
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Africa is going to burn coal, that's non negotiable. If you care about a heatwave, buy an aircon, many children on the African continent don't have that luxury. Thanks to @ClimateDepot for having me on.
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Important to understand. Nuclear has two LCOEs, after the Capex is paid off, the operations cost falls to less than wind and solar. It's deceptive to use only the former metric. Prices are in Rands.
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@IanCopeland5 Erm that graph just proves that covid is nothing more than rebranded flu...
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@MichaelPSenger In Macron's social credit system many of my countrymen cannot go to the restaurant yet they can do so if they escape to the UK or Switzerland.
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"Energy equals quality of life, and we only intervene there with the most convincing of cases" - Prof. Michael Kelly.
@Newzroom405
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Eskom has taken its first major step towards unbundling by appointing a 12-member board. Civil Nuclear Engineer Hugo Kruger says despite government's refusal, the unbundling is a reckless move. Watch: #Newzroom405
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How many IQ points do you need to lose to believe this study?
@DawnTJ90
𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟𝕋𝕁𝟡𝟘™ 🇵🇭💖🇨🇦 Climate of Dawn
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💥Climate Change Lowers IQ's ⚠️ Children who experience extreme weather events 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮'𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 lose about 14 IQ points because of the stress their mothers went through. 🙄 Q) How many IQ points did Katie Fitzgerald lose before she was born? h/t @NewshubNZ
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"Namibia condemns Germany for defending Israel in ICJ genocide case"
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for a better picture of SAs oil and Gas Potential.
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South Africa has to keep investing in coal for at least another 20 years.
@jacob_maroga
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Part of the cause of load shedding since 2018 has been this policy incoherence of wanting to shut generation capacity whilst you are in an energy crisis. The Minister of Electricity is now putting to bed this ‘policy incoherence’ #EnergyLeadership
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Africa is prosecuted for a carbon crime it did not commit, excellent article by @Princymthombeni
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The "Just" Energy Transition is turning out to be just a cash heist.
@FinancialMail
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Billions of Just Energy Transition Partnership funds have already been spent, allocated or ‘pledged’. But there’s been no transparency around this crucial process, writes @TBakerDavies .
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@hkrugertjie
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The latest IEA report shows what the Global Warming Claim really comes down to. Under current assumptions, if we continue to do what we are currently doing, then the earth will warm 1.7degC as opposed to 1.5degC; from a baseline of the Little Ice Age.
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Here is Rob Jeffrey's thesis, The University of Johannesburg is turning into an excellent Institution that dissents from official state climate ideology. South Africa needs Coal and Nuclear.
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That's why 80y.o old men like Dr. Rob Jeffrey, after losing control of his legs, went back to University to study the best solution for the future of South Africa. He wasn't thinking of his career.
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In his interview with @MikhailaFuller , @normfinkelstein said that Hamas has never used human shields. I looked into the propaganda and he does seem correct. It's Israeli Propaganda, as multiply sources confirm.
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@NickHudsonCT If you think of it Biological weapons are only effective in Agriculture. A "deadly virus" would kill it's host before it has time to jump. The real weapon is the propaganda story and the medication offered as a solution.
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look at all that dinosaur juice, waiting to be exploited.
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How much intelligence does it take to be against a social credit system, repeated boosters and mass population surveillance? @NickHudsonCT
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Just how overblown is the tritium issue?
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The NGO grifters are trying to block South Africa from exploiting it's offshore natural gas resources.
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The same NGO that went to court in 2017 and nuked our baseload nuclear energy security supply is going to court to disrupt our urgent need for gas power supply. ‼️Interesting, the list of donors for CER are the same funders are Cyril’s climate commission. And, Bobby Peek (
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"The Herero and Namaqua Genocide was the massacre of approximately 50,000 – 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama between 1904 and 1907 by German military forces in German South West Africa (GSWA) – modern-day Namibia ."
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“That was a colossal mistake, consigning us to decades more reliance on fossil fuels … We are heralding the beginning of a new nuclear age, a renaissance in Britain’s nuclear industry."
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Why are our leaders listening to this total nutcase?
@darrengrimes_
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Klaus Schwab says the quiet part out loud: " You do not need to have elections anymore!" 😳
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@aginnt the counter factual is easily tested. Look at countries/states wit no lockdowns or only 1. At the end nothing matters. You get a similar conclusion if you look at the vaccines.
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Who is this President?
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@NickHudsonCT Being "provaxx" is a status symbol, a form of virtue signally when you're caught being ignorant of the fundamentals of immunology.
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The Term 'conspiracy theory" was rarely used in English before the assassination of JFK and the term "denialist" not used out of intellectual circles before the Global Warming Hiatus, The frequency increase, indicates that it's a sign of propaganda and state ideology.
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"With coal almost any feat is possible or easy; without it we are thrown back on the laborious poverty of early times" -William Stanley Jevons, "The Age of Coal".
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At an art exhibition in Paris, this painting is called "changement climatique". The artist is using Acrylic Paint, but it hasn't occured (yet), that Acrylic Resin is made from Petroleum....
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The thermodynamic Potential of Uranium and Thorium salts. 1gram of salt can theoretically replace 2ton of oil
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The studied of eugenics was put in practice by Eugene Fischer, who would later become the mentor of Joseph Mengele
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@RnaudBertrand Dulles's brother held shares in the United Fruit Company company in Guatamala. When the government wanted to nationalize it, the CIA instigated a coup to oust Jacobo Arbenz from power. Dulles was eventually fired by Kennedy. But fortunately he served on the Warren Commission..
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Like President Thabo Mbeki I have done the unspeakable scientific act of looking at the evidence and then deciding to change my mind. @ProfTimNoakes @BigDaddyLiberty @NickHudsonCT @RobDuigan
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@RobertKennedyJr said that if someone would tell him why he is wrong, he would change his mind on Nuclear Power. I will tell him why and where he is wrong. Ask a Nuclear Civil Engineer to explain.
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@gms111 I am pro prosperity Greg
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Imagine how great the climate would be if we can reduce it by 1 degree so that the Thames would free over again. #ClimateCrisis #climatescam #climatebrawl
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"all together now, Nuclear doesn't work"
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3/4 of Canada’s electricity from Hydro and Nuclear. You wouldn't know that if you listened to @JustinTrudeau
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Namibia is unique as it was subjected to three forms of colonialism. German Imperialism, British Imperialism and Afrikaner Nationalism (Apartheid).
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It's always nice drinking coffee eating tea and discussing the topic of energy policy and anthropogenic global warming with the MIT Atmospheric Physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen. There are few people with a mind as sharp as his at age 83!
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"South Africa emits little over 1% of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions and any policy that mitigates C02, even if successful, will have no impact on the temperature of the earth as per IPCC’s own model projections. "
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@miamalan is this your new cash cow Mia?
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Climate debt slavery?
@ConCaracal
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South Africa plans more power plant closures to get R48.5 billion in climate finance The same South Africa that has struggled with rolling blackouts since 2007.
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1992 , South Africa's Tokoloshe Tokomak (Nuclear Fusion) experimental reactor.
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Should these resources be explored or remain in the ground?
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Talking about the Theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming to Dr. Richard Lindzen as Paris prepares for a cold winter and potential electricity blackouts! #ClimateBrawl #ClimateScam
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One of the State Department’s top-ranking officials, Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for political affairs, is expected to travel to South Africa in the coming weeks," The coup d'état lady is coming to South Africa?
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"The misconception is that Eskom only provides kilowatt-hours to our homes and factories when, in fact, electricity plays a central role in human habitat creation."
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@miamalan @HealthZA This is excellent news, SAs general population giving large monopolies and their sycophants in the media a middle finger.
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South Africa has also had a history of concentration camps and historians are still debating the severity of the crime that by today's standards would be classified a warcrime.
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@nationalpost this certificate sounds like a subscription service,
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"The United Nation’s 27th Conference of the Parties is showcasing the two worst characteristics of ruling elites: environmental hypocrisy and a callous support for foreign dictators that go along with the West’s Geopolitical Interests. "
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"Climate Denialism" is a term used to justify official state ideology. The purpose of propaganda is to end discussion, the term was used first by politicians like Al Gore to deliberately associate critical thinkers with holocaust deniers.
@GeraldKutney
Gerald Kutney - 🌏🔥#ClimateBrawl🔥🌍
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Climate denialism is ________________. How would you fill the blank⁉️ #ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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@ANMDUSA the WHO is the variant
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