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November 1
November 1

Chinese defector warns US intelligence of mysterious virus in China

In November 2019 [day unknown] – six weeks before China admitted there was an outbreak in Wuhan, Wei Jingsheng, the father of China’s democracy movement and famous 1997 defector to America, warned US intelligence agencies of a mysterious new virus in China, spread at the time of the World Military Games.  He told Sky News investigative reporter Sharri Markson this in September 2021.

Wei said he found out about the virus from high-level contacts in Beijing, and told intelligence officials who in turn seemed “not as heavily concerned as I was” stated Wei. [1]

Wei Jingsheng had spent 18 years in Chinese prisons for objecting to the Communist regime and following international pressure, was released and he reluctantly defected to the United States in November 1997.

November 1

Three Wuhan virology lab staff fall ill – in June 2023 they were named “Patients Zero”

Sometime in November 2019, three research staff members from the Wuhan Institute of Virology allegedly fell ill with symptoms “consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness” – as reported in retrospect in a U.S. intelligence report in May 2021. [1, 2]


On June 14, 2023 the Twitter Files journalists broke the news that sources within the US government are 100% certain of the identity of the three individuals who became infected with SARS-CoV-2 in November 2019, they are Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu.

Ben Hu, who was Shi Zhengli’s “star pupil”, led the risky Gain-of-Function research on SARS-like bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, working together with Ping and Zhu. [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

It’s not clear what time in November these three Wuhan lab staff fell ill, but this doesn’t explain the sickness following the Wuhan military games in October 2019, nor the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies found in blood taken in Italy, September 2019.

November 1

US: People test positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in early 2020, before the official start

Retrospective evidence that people in the United states who had “bad flu” in Oct-Nov 2019 and tested negative for influenza, but in early 2020 had positive IgG antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, indicating they had COVID-19 in late 2019, which doesn’t match the official timeline of the virus reaching the US in January 2020! [1, 2].

Known outbreaks of Influenza Like Illness (ILI) were “severe” and “widespread” across the United States in late 2019.

I lost count of the number of friends who, between November 2019 and early March 2020, told me they had never been so ill with flu, had the worst cough, took weeks to recover and felt weak for several weeks after that.”
An example testimony (Silverbirch)

Compilation of anecdotal evidence of a strange flu throughout USA in late 2019 early 2020.

“[R]esearch has identified at least 306 people from four other nations and at least seven U.S. states, many of whom also had Covid-like symptoms in the months of November and October 2019 with at least 153 of these early cases later receiving positive antibody tests.” [3]

On March 16, 2020 the US FDA warned that “results from antibody testing should not be used as the sole basis to diagnose or exclude SARS-CoV-2 infection or to inform infection status”.  It appeared PCR diagnostics were pushed over antibody surveillance. [4, 5]

By April 2020 the authorities were questioning the commercial antibody tests’ accuracy as they were showing 50-fold increase in cases compared to PCR tests, the findings also indicate that the virus is less deadly than current estimates of global case and death count!

November 7

Netflix episode “The Next Pandemic”

A globally viewed Netflix documentary series called ‘Explained’  released episode 7 titled “The Next Pandemic” on November 7, 2019.  This episode conditions the audience for how wet markets can increase the risk of zoonotic viruses moving from animal to human.

In the episide Bill Gates (who is not a doctor, nor scientist) warned that it takes 4 to 5 years to develop a vaccine, but new technologies might shorten this time!

November 15

US Intelligence allegedly briefed Israel and NATO of an emerging disease in Wuhan

It was reported that Israel’s Channel 12 news reporte “the US intelligence community [had] became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of …[November 2019 (approx 15th)]” and reported it to Israel and NATO, but “nothing was done”.  [1]

The American military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) allegedly prepared a report that was the “result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts” from China, it alleged “it could be a cataclysmic event”. [2]

November 15

Measles outbreak in Samoa, Fiji and Tonga following vaccines

On October 18, 2019, just 17 days after UNICEF delivers batches of measles vaccines to Samoa, a measles outbreak is declared, followed shortly after in Tonga and Fiji (were vaccines were also delivered) – but only Samoa made headlines. On November 15, 2019 a State of emergency declared in Samoa after 1000 cases and 15 deaths (of which 14 were children under five), in populations where measles coverage was 100% in 2013 and “enough of the Samoan population had been vaccinated by 2019 that they should have been “protected” from a fatal measles outbreak.” [1, 2]

It was reported that “basic medical care, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C and other supportive measures, was denied to the children of Samoa” and as a consequence many died!  This created the justification for the red-flag flying, door-to-door compulsory mass vaccination campaign which started December 5, 2019, followed by school closures and bans on gatherings!

Strangely the genomic sequence for this Samoan measles strain does not appear in Genbank, which makes one ask why, what are they hiding, and wa it a novel strain, considering it’s “unusually virulent” nature? [1]

Two other facts to consider:  Ralph Baric would have been working on a chimeric measles-COVID-19 product around Dec 2019 to get preprint published July 2020, and the first wave of COVID-19 reported in Samoa November 2020 was mild.  Did the population of Samoa have prior immunity from Nov-Dec 2019?

November 17

China’s first potential COVID-19 case

A 55 year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19 on November 17, 2019 according to government data seen by the South China Morning Post. [1, 2]

“Interviews with whistle-blowers from the medical community suggest Chinese doctors only realised they were dealing with a new disease in late December.”

By December 20, 2019 the total number of confirmed cases had reached 60. “On December 27, Zhang Jixian, a doctor from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, told China’s health authorities that the disease was caused by a new coronavirus. By that date, more than 180 people had been infected, though doctors might not have been aware of all of them at the time.”

November 17

Evidence suggests presence of SARS-CoV-2 in China

In a peer reviewed paper published 2021 by University of Kent and the Czech Academy of Sciences, the scientists estimates that the SARS-CoV-2 virus first appeared between early October to mid-November 2019, and noted that “significant changes in hospital and search engine traffic in Wuhan” suggest it may have been present as early as August to October, 2019.

The study concluded that November 17, 2019, is the most likely date for the virus’ emerged in China and adds that it had probably already spread globally by January 2020—before China began locking down the city of Wuhan. [2]

Another study led by Francois Balloux estimate from phylogenetic assessment that October 6, 2019 could be the pandemic start date. [1]

Spanish virologists were reported to have found traces of the virus from Barcelona waste water samples collected March 12, 2019 [unconfirmed].

November 18

TGA issued a permission for States to advertise vaccines

On November 18, 2019 the TGA issued a permission that now allows States and Territories to advertise vaccines for public health reasons.  Previous legislation specified each disease (column 2) now any State declared “serious form of a disease” can be used to justify the promotion of a vaccine. [1, 2]  (see June 29, 2018)

The “Commonwealth” legislation was repealed for this new “Government” legislation which now provides provision for State Vaccine Advertising Campaigns.  Setting the stage for COVID-19 vaccine advertising by each State and Territory of Australia in 2021.

November 26

Presentation reveals new insight into the complexity of modern knowledge of the immune system

On November 26, 2019 Dr Shiva Ayyadurai delivered a prestige lecture at NSF Science & Technology Center, Purdue University on the “Modern Theory of the Immune System” based on current science and his PhD work.   The immune system is far more complex than the 1950’s Innate plus Adaptive parts that is the accepted model.

This knowledge will help your understanding of how natural infection builds broad-spectrum, long-lasting immunity against virus variants, compared to the narrow spectrum, waning immunity that a single-protein, antigen vaccine stimulates…but even that is a simplified explanation.

December 1
December 1

China’s new mandatory vaccination law takes effect

New mandatory vaccination law [1] takes effect in China on December 1, 2019.

“The Law mandates the launching of a national vaccine electronic tracking platform…”

“On June 29, 2019, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) adopted the PRC Law on Vaccine Administration (Vaccine Law). The official Xinhua news agency states that the Law provides for the “strictest” vaccine management with tough penalties in order to ensure the country’s vaccine safety.”…”The Law will take effect on December 1, 2019 (art. 100).” [1]

December 1

China: First patient symptom onset date

Wuhan, China: On December 1, 2019, the first person reporting ill (later determined with coronavirus) was origianlly stated to have no link to the seafood market.  This seafood market reference is removed from the later Johns Hopkin’s article. [2]

In a leaked Five-Eyes intelligence report it is stated on December 6, 2019, that being “Five days after a man linked to Wuhan’s seafood market presented pneumonia-like symptoms, his wife contracts it, suggesting human to human transmissionThe Daily Telegraph reports in their compiled timeline of key dates mentioned in the Five-Eyes intelligence report. [1]

CDC place the first cluster of patients on 12 December 2019 (with no citation).

December 2

WHO: Global Vaccine Safety Summit

On the December 2-3, 2019 the WHO hosted the Global Vaccine Safety Summit  at their HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.  It marked the 20th year anniversary for the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS). The meeting was a congregation of the world’s leaders on vaccine safety science – an area where “the science is settled”! [1, 2, 7]

This meeting was recorded and caught some shocking claims regarding the lack of vaccine safety research and surveillance (which the public trusts are done), plus the increasing incidence of doctors questioning the safety of vaccines. [5]

In medical schools you’re lucky if you have a half day on vaccines, never mind keeping up to date with all this.” said Dr Heidi Larson (8:20)

We’re in a unique position in human history where we’ve shifted the human population to vaccine dependency. [@4.40]

We’ve wiped out natural, lifetime immunity through mass vaccination programs.  When vaccination began there were only a few antigens, now children can receive 71 antigens (possibly more) by 18 years of age. [6]

The World Health Organisation, over the past decade, has determined that “vaccine hesitancy‘ is one of the greatest threats to health! It is a growing trend as more and more families and friends experience a child injured following vaccination. [3, 4, 8]

WHO Chief Scientist, Dr Souyam Swaminathan, stated at the safety summit:

“I think we cannot over emphasize the fact we really don’t have very good safety monitoring systems in many countries…”

BUT in public, promotional video for the WHO, just days before, on November 28, 2019 she stated:

“vaccines are very safe.  If someone gets sick after vaccination it is usually a coincidence, and error in administering the vaccine, or very rarely, a problem with the vaccine itself. That’s why we have…robust vaccine safety systems.”

In 2001 this same committee drew the exact same conclusions of “coincidental” events regarding vaccine safety – to the public!

December 9

ASPR officially release Crimson Contagion After-Action Report

Only on December 9, 2019 did Dr Robert Kadlec, head of HHS ASPR, after 12 months of gaming pandemic preparedness did he officially release the “Crimson Contagion After-Action Report. [1, 2, 4]

The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) held a public meeting in Washington, DC, ONLY on December 3, 2019 to disclose, amongst other things, the Crimson Contagion Exercise findings. [3]  The press did not report on this until the NY Times article March 19, 2020.

The After-Action Report “criticised” previous pandemic playbooks such as the January 2018 ‘Pandemic Crisis Action Plan Ver. 2.0.’ in

The Crimson Contagion exersise concluded that the January 2018 Dept Homeland Security’s ‘Pandemic Crisis Action Plan Ver. 2.0existing playbook, which tasked HHS to lead the federal government’s response to an influenza pandemic, with the support of DHS/FEMA, was “insufficient and often in conflict with one another.”

WATCH

December 9

Hunter Biden’s laptop handed over to the FBI

On December 9, 2019 Delaware’s The Mac Store owner John Paul Mac Isaac, handed over Hunter Biden’s (Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son) laptop to the FBI.   Under contract law the unclaimed laptop became the property of Isaac, which he believed needed to be in the hands of the FBI as it appeared to be a huge national security issue.

In October 2020 after The New York Post’s article, the mainstream media reported the laptop and the emails within, were “classic trademarks” of Russian disinformation, based on the “opinion” of 50 former senior intelligence officials. Twitter reomoved the NY Post article, and Facebook censored it – all before the 2020 Presidential election between Hunter’s father and President Trump.

On March 16, 2022, 17 months later, The New York Times finally “confirms” the laptop is real.

On October 27, 2022 Elon Musk buys Twitter, and shortly after the Twitter Files begin, revealing the evidence of collusion between US government officials and Twitter to censor the Laptop story and more.

On February 9, 2023 the US House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government public hearings began.

Follow the timeline of events HERE

December 9

The IG FISA report is released

On December 9, 2019 the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released their 478-page review of “Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” known as the IG Report on “FISA abuse” or the Horowitz report.

On that same day (curiously) at exactly 1:29 pm both US Attorney John H Durham and Attorney General Bill Barr tweeted their response to the IG Report.  Durham hints at what’s to come in “Criminal Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe.” [1]

John Durham, who’s running a criminal investigation into the matter has “broken his silence in what is a pretty stunning statement” of not agreeing “with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.” The FBI director Christopher Wray accepted the finding of the report.  For Durham “to come out and make this statement carries some serious weight.”[2]

Barr stated: “While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General’s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.” [4]

The fact checkers use the report to accuse Trump of “false” claims! such as “The report also discounted the role of a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, saying it “played no role” in the FBI’s decision”!

“The report revealed…the FBI defrauded the FISA court and purposely omitted exculpatory information from the FISA judges in order to obtain FOUR FISA warrants on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.” [3]

December 10

Suspected first patient worked in the seafood market

The Wall Street Journal reports: “It was on Dec. 10 [2019] that Wei Guixian, a seafood merchant in this city’s Hua’nan market, first started to feel sick. Thinking she was getting a cold, she walked to a small local clinic to get some treatment and then went back to work. Eight days later, the 57-year-old was barely conscious in a hospital bed, one of the first suspected cases in a coronavirus epidemic …”

December 12

Moderna/NIAID send “mRNA coronavirus vaccine canditates” to Dr Ralph Baric

On December 12, 2019, Dr Ralph Baric of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, signed an agreement (pg 105) to receive the “mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna”. [1, 2, 3, 4]  Thus NIH has joint ownership of Moderna’s mRNA coronavirus vaccine.

Dr Baric has a long history of coronavirus chimeric research and collaboration with the Wuhan Virology Lab plus knows how to profit from a pandemic.

December 13

France sets to ban chloroquine from over the counter

Extending from a decision made on December 13, 2019, France will make all pain killer drugs, as well as the anti-malarial drug, chloroquine only be available behind the counter effective January 15, 2020, where pharmacists will be able to “ask the right questions”. [1, 2, 3, 4]

As of March 25, 2020 in France, pharmacies can only dispense hydroxychloroquine for scripts “exclusively by specialists in rheumatology, internal medicine, dermatology, nephrology, neurology or pediatrics or in the context of a prescription renewal from any doctor.”

May 2020 the French government bans the drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of COVID-19 ” due to serious concerns over health risks.” [5]

December 18

Gates funded paper: Invisible ink quantum dots “tatoo” to check vaccination status

On December 18, 2019, MIT Scientists publish their paper on their development of a new “biocompatible near-infrared quantum dots delivered to the skin by microneedle patches” to record and check for mandated vaccination status. [1]

MIT believe “[t]his study presents a novel approach where the medical record is stored and controlled by the patient within the patient’s skin in a minimally invasive and elegant way.” [3, 4]

Their justification “Vaccines prevent disease and save lives; however, lack of standardized immunization recordkeeping makes it challenging to track vaccine coverage across the world.”  The concept was a “direct request” by Gates himself, and sold as a means to solve “lack of vaccination” problem in the developing nations.   “If we don’t have good data, it’s really difficult to eradicate disease” such as polio and measles Gates said. [2]

A step closer to tracking everyone that we were warned about.

Microneedle technology was patented in 2011, and quantum dot research was funded by the US intelligence community in 2008.

December 19

Bill Gates tweets vaccines could be “best buy” in the next year

On December 19, 2019 (US time) Bill Gates tweets an amazing prediction!

What’s next for our foundation? I’m particularly excited about what the next year could mean for one of the best buys in global health: vaccines.”

The same day Dr Anthony Fauci attends a Gates Foundation dinner, where no doubt he met with Bill face to face. [1]

December 19

FDA approves first Ebola vaccine

On December 19, 2019, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Ervebo, the first FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of Ebola virus disease (EVD) said to be a “a historic milestone in global health security.”

This approval “which follows last month’s European Union-wide conditional marketing approval by the European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization’s prequalification of the vaccine, provides healthcare workers and civilians in affected areas with more confidence in the vaccine.”

December 24

US: SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies found in blood

Tests of the US blood supply indicates the SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies were present in the US in late December 2019, around 2 weeks prior to January 7, 2020 when the blood was taken, earlier than the official first case of COVID-19.  These IgG antibodies do not appear until about two weeks post infection, placing infection date around December 24, 2019.

The US flu season was “very high” in December 2019 to early 2020.

December 27

China first aware of “viral pneumonia”

According to a Chinese government White Paper published on June 7, 2020 titled “Fighting Covid-19 China in Action”, “China’s fight against the epidemic” began on December 27, 2019 and was then recognised as a “Public Health Emergency.” [1, 2, 3]

On December 27, 2019 Zhang Jixian, a doctor from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, reported cases of pneumonia of unknown cause to the Wuhan Jianghan Center for Disease Prevention and Control, China’s heath authority.”  Investigations concluded “they were cases of a viral pneumonia”. According to South China Morning Post [5] the doctor told China’s health authorities that the disease was caused by a new coronavirus.

“By the final day of 2019, the number of confirmed cases had risen to 266, On the first day of 2020 it stood at 381.”…”As late as January 11, Wuhan’s health authorities were still claiming there were just 41 confirmed cases.” [5]

Some additional responses reported in the white paper by China:

  • From Jan 3 China began to regularly update the WHO
  • On Jan 4, the “head of China CDC [George Gao Fu] held a telephone conversation with the director of the US CDC [Robert Redfield]
  • On Jan 5: With now 59 cases of the viral pneumonia of unknown cause. “Laboratory tests ruled out respiratory pathogens as the cause, such as influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.”
  • On Jan 5: “China sent a situation update to the WHO. The WHO released its first briefing on cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan.”
  • Jan 7: Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and issued instructions on the prevention and control of a possible epidemic of the pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan.
  • Jan 7 “China CDC succeeded in isolating the first novel coronavirus strain.”

The white paper chronologically reports China’s version of events until June 2020. – READ


The Washington Examiner reports: “Wuhan Central Hospital got its first coronavirus patient on December 16, 2019 according to an interview Dr. Ai Fen gave to the Wall Street Journal. China’s CDC Weekly would note that Chinese doctors began tracking “a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause” that “occurred in Wuhan” on Dec. 21.

Another coronavirus patient with similar symptoms arrived at the Wuhan Central Hospital on Dec. 27, and by the next day, the hospital had seven unexplained pneumonia-like cases, including four connected to the wet market. On Dec. 29, Ai warned the hospital’s leadership about the contagious virus, and the hospital warned China’s local CDC.

Ai received lab results on Dec. 30 that warned of a SARS-like coronavirus…” [4]

December 28

Virus sequence uploaded to GenBank, 2 weeks before official genome sequence release

On January 17, 2024, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the origins of COVID-19 released documents showing that Chinese researcher Dr Lili Ren, a co-investigator with Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, first submitted the SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence to the NIH’s GenBank genetic sequence database on December 28, 2019, two weeks before the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) first released the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence on January 11, 2020. [1, 2, 3,]

“Dr. Lili Ren, an accomplished virologist at the Institute of Pathogen Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army. She is also a current subgrantee of non-profit EcoHealth Alliance on the same National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant as the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been debarred from receiving NIH grants for ten years for failing to provide laboratory records requested by NIH and for conducting research that “did lead or could lead to health issues or other unacceptable outcomes.” ”

Her sequence was “nearly identical to the to the sequence later made public by the China CDC on January 10, 2020″. The 2015 multi-year NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance, who partnered with Ren as a “co-investigator” received a salary from the grant money

December 30

Dr Shi Zhengli wondered if the novel coronavirus came from her lab – in Wuhan

Dr Shi Zhengli, China’s “bat woman”, recalls her Wuhan institute’s director telling her  on the phone to “drop whatever you are doing and deal with it now”, that being the “mysterious patient samples” which had arrived at Wuhan Institute of Virology at 7 pm on December 30, 2019.   Shi had just “walked out of the conference she was attending in Shanghai and hopped on the next train back to Wuhan.”

“The Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention had detected a novel coronavirus in two hospital patients with atypical pneumonia, , and it wanted Shi’s renowned laboratory to investigate.”

““I wondered if [the municipal health authority] got it wrong,” she says. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?””[1, 2, 3]

SARS-CoV-2 ORIGINS

December 30

Wuhan Doctor warns his WeChat friends about a coronavirus

As reported by CNN:

On December 30, 2019, a 34-year-old Chinese doctor working in Wuhan, Li Wenliang, told his medical school alumni friends on WeChat to warn their loved ones privately to be careful as “seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital”.  Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a coronavirus…”

Within hours screenshots of his messages had gone viral — without his name being blurred.

On January 3, 2020, Li was called to a local police station and reprimanded for “spreading rumors online” and “severely disrupting social order” over the message he sent in the chat group.

On January 10, 2020 after unwittingly treating a patient with the Wuhan coronavirus, Li started coughing and developed a fever the next day. He was hospitalized on January 12. In the following days, Li’s condition deteriorated so badly that he was admitted to the intensive care unit, and given oxygen support.
On February 1, he tested positive for coronavirus and on February 7, 2020 it was announced that he had died. [1, 2, 3]

Does CNN normally get exclusive information out of China?

December 30

Western media picks up on viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China

On December 30, 2019, Reuters report from Beijing Monitoring Desk, that the Chinese health authorities “are investigating 27 cases of viral pneumonia in the central city of Wuhan, after rumors on social media suggested the outbreak could be linked to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).”

The paper notes that in 2003, Chinese officials covered up a SARS outbreak for weeks before a growing death toll and rumors forced the government to reveal the epidemic

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