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Snopes Debunker - That quarantine enforcement video from China, rumors about Elon Musk, and Iran's "morality police"

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Today: That quarantine enforcement video from China, rumors about Elon Musk, and Iran's "morality police"

Video Shows Police in China Enforcing Quarantine in 2020, Not 2022

Last month, a TikTok user posted a video that included a misleading caption and quite the dramatic remix of Johnny Cash singing "I hear the train a comin'" from "Folsom Prison Blues." The video was recorded in China and showed officials in white protective hazmat suits forcibly dragging and carrying people down a hallway, apparently to be quarantined.
 
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