A quote about quarantine and tyranny is spread on a sharepic, which supposedly comes from Stephen King. However, the author is someone completely different.
Pithy sayings and quotes are often shared. It's even better when a quote is attributed to a well-known personality, in this case the author Stephen King. Or would you share a quote if it came from a “ Meshawn Maddock ” who is hardly known in this country?
This sharepic is:
The sharepic says:
“Quarantine is when you restrict the freedom of movement of sick people. Tyranny is when you restrict the freedom of movement of healthy people. Stupidity is when you don’t understand the difference.”
The author of the quote is named Stephen King on the sharepic.
The true author of the quote
In October 2020, the quote was distributed in English, at the time it was incorrectly attributed to anti-vaccination activist and (according to his own statements) “Christian doctor” Pat Morrissey because he wrote exactly those words on Twitter:
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However, the quote is even older: as of April 2020, it has been mentioned in several media outlets, including Fox News , the conservative podcast Ricochet , the book , and the book Dark Times: A Lockdown and a Call to Arms. China, Covid-19, World Domination ”.
In all sources, it is not Stephen King who is named as the author of the quote, but rather the Republican politician Meshawn Maddock.
Maddock is probably less well-known in this country, but in the USA she has often made the headlines because, for example, since 2016 she has campaigned to remove the protection of homosexuals from the party program, and she also claimed that in the last presidential election in the USA many of the votes for Biden came from dead people.
And what about the meaning of the quote?
That is also wrong .
Whether you look at Wikipedia , the Cambridge Dictionary , Merriam-Webster , Macmillan or Dictionary : the choice of words varies, but the basic definition does not:
suspicion is enough to order a quarantine; this is not “tyranny”.
Conclusion
It would also be very unlikely that the quote came from Stephen King; For example, he repeatedly criticized Trump's policies regarding the pandemic on Twitter
The quote, however, can be attributed to the Republican politician Meshawn Maddock based on several sources.
Also interesting:
A longer text claims that the Council of Europe has banned compulsory vaccination. However, it is only a recommendation.
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