{"id":4532,"date":"2023-09-05T15:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:22:14","slug":"theres-a-virus-on-the-loose-a-freak-rainstorm-at-burning-man-led-to-claims-the-festival-had-been-hit-by-an-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/05\/theres-a-virus-on-the-loose-a-freak-rainstorm-at-burning-man-led-to-claims-the-festival-had-been-hit-by-an-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s a virus on the loose: A freak rainstorm at Burning Man led to claims the festival had been hit by an Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/debug\/burning-man-ebola-conspiracies\/\">Daily Dot<\/a> A long line of vehicles lined up on Monday, waiting up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/burning-man-lifts-lockdown-says-exodus-muddy-venue-underway-rcna103303\">eight hours<\/a>\u00a0to exit the Burning Man festival after heavy rains and mud prompted a lockdown that left thousands of attendees stranded at the desert venue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But some are chalking up the saga to more than just bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those is firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) who theorized in an Infowars interview that the attendees are \u201cprobably being brainwashed that climate change is the cause of all of it, the root of all evil, and it\u2019s going to destroy the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter this is over at Burning Man and these 75,000 people disperse and they go back home, they\u2019re going to have these stories to tell on how terrible it is and how we have to do everything possible to stop climate change,\u201d Greene added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She continued to say that attendees will say climate change is caused by humans and \u201cthe amount of carbon that we put out\u201d through manufacturing, gas and diesel engines, and agriculture. Some may even blame overpopulation, she said, that \u201cwe have too many humans putting out too much carbon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to start hearing all this stuff and this is going to build,\u201d Greene continued. \u201cAnd I believe this the left\u2019s new lie they\u2019re going to put on the American people and try to get everyone behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Dot A long line of vehicles lined up on Monday, waiting up to\u00a0eight hours\u00a0to exit the Burning Man festival after heavy rains and mud prompted a lockdown that left thousands of attendees stranded at the desert venue. But some are chalking up the saga to more than just bad weather. 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