Over the past few days, a viral text message has been circulating a claim that President Trump will invoke a law known as the “Stafford Act” to mandate a national quarantine. This is a real case of fake news — it’s all bogus, made-up, a lie.

There appear to be several variants of this message, but each claim to have been told this information by “my military friends up in DC” who “just got out of a two hour briefing.” This is the message that I received:

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