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  • 2021-08-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Were Body Bags Transported in Gov. Abbott's Campaign Truck? (en)
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  • In August 2021, as the state of Texas faced another surge of COVID-19 cases, a photograph started circulating online that supposedly showed body bags being transported in a truck bearing a campaign logo for Gov. Gregg Abbott: This is a digitally altered image. The original photograph truly shows bodies being moved from a refrigerated mortuary truck, but the Abbott 2022 logo does not appear in the original photo. The doctored version shown above was created from a picture taken by Reuters photographer Ivan Pierre Aguirre in November 2020 in El Paso, Texas. The original photograph was presented with the following caption: The genuine photograph was recirculated on social media in August 2021 after it was included in an NBC News report about Texas requesting additional mortuary trailers to deal with a surge of COVID-19 across the state. NBC News reported: Many people responded to tweets about this news by posting this digitally altered image. A few days later, this picture received more social media traction when it was captioned on Facebook: Picture of the Week from Texas! This altered image was often accompanied by criticisms about Abbott's decisions to prohibit mask and vaccine mandates in the state. The New York Times reported at the end of July 2021: Sources: Montgomery, Dave. Gov. Greg Abbott Bars Mandates for Vaccinations and Masks in Texas. The New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/world/greg-abbott-mask-vaccine-mandate.html. Svitek, Patrick. Gov. Greg Abbott Bans Government Mandates on COVID-19 Vaccines Regardless of Whether They Have Full FDA Approval. The Texas Tribune, 25 Aug. 2021, https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/25/texas-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-ban-greg-abbott/. Texas Requests Five Mortuary Trailers in Anticipation of Covid Deaths. NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-requests-five-mortuary-trailers-anticipation-covid-deaths-n1276924. Accessed 26 Aug. 2021. (en)
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