{"id":10875,"date":"2020-09-11T23:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2020-09-17T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:32:17","slug":"oregons-500000-evacuees-was-faked-by-oem-it-is-about-40000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/09\/11\/oregons-500000-evacuees-was-faked-by-oem-it-is-about-40000\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon’s 500,000 evacuees was faked by OEM – it is about 40,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

This bit of nonsense originated with Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management, an agency with a reputation for making things up.<\/p>\n

The number of Oregonians told to evacuate because of unprecedented wildfires is more than 40,000 \u2013 not the 500,000 residents initially and erroneously announced by Oregon\u2019s Office of Emergency Management, Gov. Kate Brown acknowledged Friday following publication of an analysis by The Oregonian\/OregonLive showing the true number of evacuations to be far lower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: Oregon initially said 500,000 people had been evacuated because of wildfires. The numbers didn\u2019t add up — and the state backtracked. – oregonlive.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This false report was covered nationally and internationally. When confronted with the error, OEM tried to defend it, then tried to deflect that the actual numbers didn’t matter.<\/p>\n

They have now acknowledged their 500,000 estimates was off by a full order of magnitude. Will the national media fix their earlier reports based on false OEM data?<\/p>\n

This claim was also widely shared on social media. Government mis-statements become instant “facts” widely shared.<\/p>\n

I learned in 2017 to never, ever believe anything originating at OEM. They have a track record of massively inflated numbers.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Heh – a couple of days later, OEM issued a social media poster saying that you should only rely on information from official sources like OEM to ensure you get accurate information! What a hoot! They have a history of issuing incorrect – and not a little incorrect but massively incorrect – information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management has a reputation for making things up. Yesterday, they claimed that 500,000 or 10% of Oregon’s population had evacuated due to wildfires. This claim received national and international media coverage. The Oregonian noted no where near that many people live in the evacuation zones. This afternoon, they have acknowledged its closer to 40,000, not 500,000. See how Internet memes get generated by fake data from official government sources?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}