DEBUG is something that should never be turned in on prod. As such,
lets be extremely specific on what we expect to process.
As we'll be taking this in from the environment, it's ensured we will
get a string. So we'll always get and only handle this in string
form. If it's anything else, it's an operational error and we bail.
(Note: bool('0') is truthy, so we make sure we leverge our string -> int
-> bool every time, so corectness can be noticed if it is not)
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