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  • 2020-04-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Trump Criticize Governors for Backing off Ebola Quarantines in 2014? (en)
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  • In March 2020, cities across the United States started to implement various orders to shelter in place, stay at home, or self-quarantine in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus that emerged in 2019. While these measures appeared to work in helping to flattening the curve of cases, they also caused a dramatic economic downturn and caused millions of people to lose their jobs. In mid-April 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump and the White House started working on a plan to re-open America. Around the same time, cities such as Lansing, Michigan, started to see small, anti-quarantine protests that Trump gave verbal support to on his social media account, tweeting LIBERATE MICHIGAN! and LIBERATE MINNESOTA! and LIBERATE VIRGINIA and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege. As Trump worked toward easing social distancing measures and re-starting the economy — a decision that worried many health experts — an old tweet started to recirculate on social media that supposedly showed him criticizing governors for relaxing quarantine rules during the Ebola outbreak in 2014: This is a genuine tweet from Trump. It is still available on his Twitter timeline here. An archived version of this tweet can be seen here. Trump's old tweets are frequently shared on social media along with the message There's a tweet for everything, a phrase meant to encapsulate the idea that for every current Trump statement there is an equal and opposite statement of his from another time. While many of the there's-a-tweet-for-everything messages point to genuine and seemingly contradictory tweets from the president's past, we've also encountered quite a few fake tweets supposedly sent from Trump. It should also be noted that the quarantines in 2014 during the Ebola outbreak were much different than the quarantines put in place during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic. In 2014, no state-wide shelter-in-place orders existed. Rather, a handful of states required people who had come in contact with someone infected with Ebola to quarantine for 21 days. Trump, who was the host of the television show The Apprentice during the Ebola outbreak, frequently criticized President Barack Obama during that epidemic. On Oct. 23, 2014, for instance, he said it was Obama's fault after a case of Ebola was confirmed in New York. Conversely, in March 2020, Trump said I don't take any responsibility when he was asked about a lack of testing to deal with the spread of COVID-19. Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone saw more than 11,000 die from Ebola between 2014 and 2016. In the United States, two people died from the disease. (en)
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