FYI

For what it's worth:

This is one of those unverifiable messages that I got that I submit to you with no assurances of veracity. I hope it's crap. But it could be true. Use your own best judgement. We're living in weird times.

A close friend of mine has family in the ----- region whose best friend is both a Colonel and Doctor in the National Guard.

He received orders to prepare for a national dispatch prior to a nationwide quarantine and closure for all businesses, all individual citizens to stay locked down at home for at least one week.

This will be announced after both military and guard troops are in place to curtail looting. He believes that the order may be announced before the end of the current weekend to keep people at home this Monday but that timing may in fact be premature.

Far fetched? Not really, even plausible. I sincerely hope that it is bullshit, but not a bad idea to stock up on provisions, medicine and water and have your gas tanks full in your car, just in case...

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postscript, thankfully these text messages are not accurate, according to several sources. NSC says that they are being sown by foreign powers to create chaos and discord.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-quarantine-stafford-act/false-claim-a-text-says-trump-to-declare-mandatory-quarantine-under-the-stafford-act-idUSKBN2153UR

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-text-messages-national-quarantine.html

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-warns-of-foreign-disinformation-campaign-amid-coronavirus-outbreak

https://www.clermontsun.com/2020/03/18/the-country-will-not-run-out-of-food-rumor-that-the-federal-government-is-going-to-order-a-nationwide-quarantine-is-false/