“So the operative word is pre-emptive.”

“What?”

“It’s a good word. It justifies taking an action that does not have merit at the time it is taken.”

“Well, I take asthma medicine to pre-empt an attack. Why are you laughing?”

“In the Land of the Pure, we don’t have the option of preemption.”

“Yes you do, you can pre-empt load shedding by getting a UPS and if you have more cash a generator.”

“And the preemption may not work if load shedding is for more hours than can be accommodated by most UPS’s and running a generator is not cheap. A better preemption would be getting solar........

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