Are the Unvaccinated Being Forcibly Rounded up in Oklahoma?







An outdated conspiracy video about FEMA camps and vaccines gained new life amid 2020 pandemic worries.







































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['The government in Oklahoma is planning to detain people unless they can show proof of vaccination.', 'In mid-May 2020, Facebook users began circulating a years-old video in which a man claimed the government was scheming to forcibly round up unvaccinated people. The video circulated widely without any indication as to when it was filmed and with the words “Heads up Oklahoma” edited in, leading some to think it pertained to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic, specifically in the state of Oklahoma.', 'The video, which has been on YouTube since 2009, featured Greg Evensen, a blogger who described himself as a former Kansas State Trooper. In the video, Evensen discussed a government “edict of mandated vaccinations.”', 'Evensen said in the video that he had been “told by state troopers across the country that there are plans ready to be implemented that include roadblocks and chokepoints,” and that there was a plan to fit members of the public with microchips containing “all kinds of information,” including whether they had been vaccinated. Anyone who refused to be vaccinated, Evensen said, would be placed in buses and shipped off to detention.', 'Evensen’s comments appear to be a variation on a cross between two long-standing conspiracy theories. One theory centers on the mass detention of Americans — in most iterations the detention is to take place in camps created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). And the other theory centers on activists who believe vaccines are harmful, and that a nefarious conspiracy exists to force them on the public. His remarks were made during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic of 2009.', 'This isn’t the first time a large-scale emergency prompted a variation of the claim that FEMA would be forcing people to receive vaccines. During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, a false claim circulated that the agency was denying those impacted by the storm any aid unless they had been vaccinated.', 'Because the video was made in 2009 and has nothing to do with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (for which there is no vaccine, anyway, as of this writing), and because the statements made in the video allude to unfounded conspiracies that have not come to pass, we rate this claim “False.”', 'FireThunderTV. \xa0 “Shut Up, Take the Vaccination or Get on the Bus!”\n\xa0 \xa0 YouTube, 10 September 2009.', 'Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \xa0 “2009 H1N1 Pandemic (H1N1pdm09 Virus).”\n\xa0 &nbsp ;Accessed 15 May 2020.', 'MacGuill, Dan. \xa0 “Did FEMA Deny Aid to Harvey Victims Unless They Received Vaccinations?”\n\xa0 \xa0 Snopes.com. \xa0 5 September 2017.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', 'A complete story is rarely told in a headline.', 'Social media rumors that two memorials in New York were vandalized proved misleading.', 'In August 2019, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man died after an encounter with police officers in Aurora, Colorado.', 'A chaotic scene in St. Louis sparked outrage, memes, and confusion.', 'Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on sex abuse charges connected to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.', 'The white supremacist group made frequent use of the slogan more recently embraced by President Donald Trump, though they did not, as some claim, invent it.', "The question of past arrests often surfaces among people who want to rationalize police officers' actions when Black men are killed in custody.", 'You can claim anything if you remove the barrier of evidence.', 'Rumors about antifa plotting violence have coincided with the month of July and Gettysburg before.', '© 1995 - 2020 by Snopes Media Group Inc.', 'This material may not be reproduced without permission.', 'Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com']
Are the Unvaccinated Being Forcibly Rounded up in Oklahoma?