copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2022-11-14): Condoms for HIV prevention. 2020. http://www.who.int/gho/hiv/. Accessed 25 Nov 2020.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2020-12-30): In late December 2020, social media users shared a copy-and-pasted meme that falsely claimed pharmaceutical company Pfizer recommended that members of the public receiving its COVID-19 vaccine should use birth control because "genetic manipulation" resulting from the vaccine could lead to birth defects. [...] Shared widely across multiple social media platforms, the claim that "Page 132 of Pfizer vaccine" says to avoid unprotected sex to avoid conception due to "genetic manipulation"-related birth defects is false.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2024-04-18): Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) after Unprotected Sex
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2023-01-07): Explanation: Posts presented an edited version of an image posted by WHO on Twitter in January 27. In the original publication, the organization advised people to avoid contact with wild and farm animals.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2023-03-18): Advice for the public: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) This page includes advice from WHO on ways to protect yourself and prevent the spread of COVID-19. The downloadable infographics below provide guidance on general and specific topics related to the pandemic. [...] - Keep up to date on the latest information from trusted sources, such as WHO or your local and national health authorities. Local and national authorities and public health units are best placed to advise on what people in your area should be doing to protect themselves.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2022-02-14): Good sex can be safer sex, say WHO researchers - Published [...] Anne Philpott, a public-health professional, set up The Pleasure Project, external - the group that worked with the WHO team - in 2004, as a result of the frustration of "endless Aids meetings where no one talked about people's motivations for having sex". [...] The WHO's Dr Lianne Gonsalves, co-author of the research, published in Plos One journal, said: "This review provides a simple message: programmes which better reflect the reasons people have sex - including for pleasure - see better health outcomes.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2014-10-16): - Unprotected sexual contact with a person who is recovering from Ebola disease for 12 months or more following infection with an ebolavirus. [...] Animals to humans - Close contact, such as handling or eating, with infected animals (alive or dead) or their body fluids, including: [...] Avoid unprotected sexual activity
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2000-04-04): - Unprotected anal or vaginal sex – not using condoms or other biomedical prevention methods.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2024-08-20): Humans to animals: Since many species of animals are known to be susceptible to the virus, there is the potential for spillback of the virus from humans to animals in different settings. [...] The risk of getting mpox from animals can be reduced by avoiding unprotected contact with wild animals, especially those that are sick or dead, including their meat and blood. In countries where animals carry the virus, any food containing animal parts or meat should be cooked thoroughly before eating.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2022-12-08): Prevention of sexual transmission [...] WHO recommends that sexually active men and women be counselled and offered a full range of contraceptive methods to be able to make an informed choice about whether and when to become pregnant in order to prevent possible adverse pregnancy and fetal outcomes. [...] For regions with no active transmission of Zika virus, WHO recommends practicing safer sex or abstinence for a period of three months for men and two months for women who are returning from areas of active Zika virus transmission to prevent infection of their sex partners. Sexual partners of pregnant women living in or returning from areas where local transmission of Zika virus occurs should practice safer sex or abstain from sexual activity throughout pregnancy.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2012-11-16): Avoid public displays of affection. [...] - Use condoms correctly or avoid sexual contact, particularly if you are pregnant. [...] Travellers are cautioned to avoid contact with animals, including dogs, livestock (pigs, cows), monkeys, snakes, rodents, birds, and bats, and to avoid eating undercooked wild game.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2024-09-07): - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Mythbusters. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters. Accessed April 24, 2024.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2020-09-14): - Do not touch or feed any animals you do not know. - Do not allow animals to lick open wounds, and do not get animal saliva in your eyes or mouth.
Claim: Claims the WHO advised the public to not have unprotected sex with animals to prevent the coronavirus? (Evil Shatner, 2020-01-29)
Evidence (2023-03-15): WHO finds evidence of possible human-to-human transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but WHO scientists say that human-to-human transmission is not surprising given our knowledge of respiratory pathogens. [...] After two pet cats in separate areas of New York state test positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, CDC recommends that people restrict their pets’ interactions with other people or animals outside their household to prevent the spread of COVID-19. [...] On the sixth annual One Health Day, a global campaign that highlights the interconnected relationship between people, animals, and their environment, CDC releases a statement on the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that more than 400 different animals have been found to be infected with COVID-19 and, as a zoonotic virus, SARS-CoV-2 can spread between people and animals.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-03): Retired teacher Catherine O’Meara actually wrote the poem in March.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-06): This piece of text was accompanied by a variety of claims as it circulated on social media. On Reddit, for instance, it was shared under the title "Poem written by Kathleen O'Mara during the 1919 pandemic." A posting on Imgur included a slightly more convoluted version of this claim: O'Mara wrote this poem in 1869 and it was reprinted during the 1919 pandemic. According to the latter link: [...] This poem was not written by someone named Kathleen O'Mara in 1869 and then reprinted in 1919. (Side note: The "Spanish Flu" pandemic is referred to on the CDC website as the "1918 pandemic," not the "1919 pandemic.") This text is actually a modern-day poem written during the COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic by author Catherine M. O'Meara. [...] Kitty O'Meara is the poet laureate of the pandemic. Her untitled prose poem, which begins with the line, "And the people stayed home," has been shared countless times, on countless backgrounds, with countless fonts, since its first posting. It was most widely popularized by Deepak Chopra, and has since been shared by everyone from Bella Hadid to radio stations in Australia. The poem has become shorthand for a silver-linings perspective during the coronavirus outbreak — the hope that something good can come out of this collective state of "together, apart."
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-03-28): Words by Kathleen O’Meara (1839-1888) This was written by Kathleen O’Meara, (1839 – 1888) an Irish-French Catholic writer of the late Victorian period.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-15): The Pandemicists’ Poem by John O’Donoghue (1956-2008) [...] And People Stayed Home by Kathleen O’Meara written in 1869 – (20 years after the famine.)
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-07-16): Kitty O'Meara's Hopeful Poem "And The People Stayed Home" About The Pandemic to Be Published as an Illustrated Book by Tra Publishing MIAMI, July 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Tra Publishing is pleased to announce that in Fall 2020 it will publish And the People Stayed Home, a picture book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) by Kitty O'Meara, featuring her popular prose poem about the global coronavirus pandemic. The poem suggests there is meaning to be found in our shared experience of the pandemic, and it conveys a hopeful message about the possibility of profound healing for people and the planet. The piece has been so widely circulated through social media, news media, and by influencers such as Deepak Chopra, Bella Hadid, and Lindsay Lohan that O'Meara, a former teacher and chaplain and currently a spiritual director, has been called "the poet laureate of the pandemic." [...] O'Meara wrote the poem on Friday, March 13. She then posted it on Facebook and it quickly went viral. There has been a great deal of misinformation about the poem's authorship, much of it confusing O'Meara with a 19th-century Irish-French writer with a similar name. In fact, Kitty O'Meara is alive and well and lives outside Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, Phillip, and their five rescue dogs and three cats. And the People Stayed Home will be O'Meara's first print book.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2024-09-13): Irish novelist and biographer. Name variations: (pseudonym) Grace Ramsay. Born Kathleen O'Meara, 1839, in Dublin, Ireland; died Nov 10, 1988, in Paris, France; dau. of Dennis O'Meara; granddau. of Barry Edward O'Meara (surgeon in the British navy and medical attendant to Napoleon at St. Helena).
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-08-13): At the beginning of the lockdown, as a short poem seemed to capture people’s imagination, and the name of an almost forgotten nineteenth-century Irish-French writer flickered briefly into the limelight, our lobby correspondent decided to follow the trial of the "wrong" Kitty O’Meara [...] It wasn’t great poetry but it caught the mood of the moment. The friend who forwarded it, along with a petition to secure virus testing for NHS front-line staff, had appended a note that was widely circulated at the time: "Kathleen O’Meara’s poem was written in 1869 (20 years after the famine)." I thought it was beautiful and also remarkably pertinent. It very soon emerged that the poem had not, in fact, been written in 1869, as a close look at the text would have immediately made clear. The Irish people may have been obliged to find new ways of being as a result of the hunger to which they were subjected in the 1840s and they certainly prayed and met their shadows. What they didn’t do was heal. The poem had actually been written by a retired school teacher from Madison, Wisconsin, Catherine (Kitty) O’Meara, on 16 March this year, the very day, as it happens, on which Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-06): The post claims that the poem was written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Mara and reprinted in 1918 during the 1918 influenza, sometimes called the Spanish flu. [...] O magazine, which interviewed O’Meara, called her the "poet laureate of the pandemic." O’Meara is a retired teacher and chaplain who lives outside of Madison, Wisc., according to the magazine. [...] O, Kitty O’Meara, author of ‘’And the people stayed home,’ opens up about writing that viral poem, March 19, 2020
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Kathleen O'Meara, also known under her pen name Grace Ramsay (1839 – 10 November 1888), was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British Catholic magazine. Irish Monthly also published many of her serialized and biographical works.[1] O'Meara also wrote works of fiction where she explored a variety of topics from women's suffrage to eastern European revolutions.[2] The majority of her novels contained Catholic themes and social reform issues. [...] - ^ a b c d e f g h i Cooper, Thompson, and Maria Luddy. "O'Meara, Kathleen [pseud. Grace Ramsay] (1839-1888), Writer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Web.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2023-01-12): Explanation: Catherine O’Meara, a retired teacher and chaplain, published the poem on her blog on 3/16/20.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-12-09): When she sat down at her computer one morning this spring, Kitty O’Meara didn’t intend to write an iconic poem, a children’s book or an opera. But in roughly 20 minutes, she did all three. [...] Oprah magazine went further, calling O’Meara "the poet laureate of the pandemic." Ever humble, O’Meara was tickled by the accolade: "It was hyperbolic and generous and very kind. I don’t think it’s affected my sense of self or my importance in the literary world." [...] As for those who deny the reality of the coronavirus, O’Meara is characteristically generous. For many, she says, the "excuses were perhaps political, but their rage, and denial, and fear seemed more about deep sadness regarding their loss of control, and all the other pain and grief they’ve been carrying around." For them, she suggests, "it felt freeing, I suppose, and perhaps offered a defiant satisfaction to be out unmasked and daring the virus to prove itself."
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-06): This poem is a prayer for where this can pandemic might lead us, a belief in transformation. If it was written in 1869, we have failed its vision. If it was reposted in 1919, we failed again. If this voice is truly from the past, then history has repeated itself, and likely will repeat itself, and hope is gone. [...] There was an Irish-French writer named Kathleen O’Meara who was writing in 1869. She did not write this poem. This poem was written by Catherine "Kitty" O’Meara, a retired teacher from Wisconsin, this year, in response to this pandemic. It is on her blog. She has recorded it. People have interviewed her about it.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2024-10-08): I must end this note with a wonderful poem, And People Stayed Home, that Seema Kohli had WhatsAppd to me on 2nd April 2020, as a healing aid during our Pandemic home-bound stay. Written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Meara, it was of another age and time, a famine poem, but resonated to connect us in the present.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-03-29): Here is a poem, written in 1869 by Irish-French poet Kathleen O’Meara (1839-1888) titled And People Stayed Home. It seems appropriate for the times we are living in.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-03-19): Kitty O’Meara / Kathleen O’Meara [...] As we liked the poem we searched online and came to a Polish website, Astraea et Amora, where we found the poem in a format that could have been translated from the Italian version. The website states the author being Kathleen O’Meara (1839–1888), pen name Grace Ramsay, an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. It specifically mentions that the poem "appeared in her second novel Iza’s Story about the struggle of Polish patriots against Russian, Austrian and German occupation. The book compares the Polish-Russian situation to the Irish-British situation and praises the revolt of a small nation against a great neighbour." We have ordered the book to verify the claim – the book has finally arrived… No trace of any poem, but looking forward to learning something about that part of history. [...] It states that an Italian poet and writer, Irene Valli, is claiming that Kitty O’Meara’s poem could be an adaptation of the English translation of hers, which is also inspired by coronavirus, but is definitely different, less concise. Her poem has also gone viral in Italy, and she has been interviewed a few times because it. We found Irene Valli’s first post on Facebook, 11 March 2020 (Italian original).
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2023-11-05): Kitty O’Meara, ‘And People Stayed Home’. [...] This poem has been attributed to Kathleen O’Meara (1839-88), an Irish-French writer, since it recently went viral in early 2020, following the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s been claimed that Kathleen O’Meara wrote it in 1869 following the devastating Irish famine of the mid-nineteenth century. However, the poem sounds far too contemporary to date from the 1860s, and indeed, it’s actually far more recent in origin – it was written by Catherine ‘Kitty’ O’Meara, from Madison, Wisconsin, in 2020.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-05-04): Kitty O'Meara's prose poem "And the people stayed home" has struck a chord with all those affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, even Deepak Chopra and Oprah are raving about it. [...] O'Meara's poem suggests that we view this era of social distancing as a chance to undertake purposeful activities like meditation, exercise, and dancing, and result in a kind of global healing. [...] O'Meara told the magazine her poem was the accumulation of months of anxiety as she'd be watching the pandemic unfold. She said of her poem "It offers a story of how it could be, what we could do with this time."
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2021-07-01): Kathleen O’Meara, also known under her pen name Grace Ramsay (1839 – 1888), was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. The original poem, taken from "Iza’s Story", her second novel, appears to have been written recently. It was actually written in 1869 in Ireland and was about the struggle of Polish Patriots against the Russian occupation. This poem is as relevant today in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic as it was then. Let’s hope that when this storm passes, we will be better.
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-28): History repeats itself. Came across this poem written in 1869, reprinted during 1919 Pandemic. It was written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Meara:
Claim: French-Irish writer Kathleen O’Meara wrote the poem "In the Time of Pandemic" in 1869 (Viral Post, 2020-04-03)
Evidence (2020-04-16): This poem was written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Mara: [...] Some posts make the claim that the poem was written in 1869 after the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. Others say it was re-printed "during 1919 pandemic", ( here ) – a reference to the Spanish flu outbreak that began in 1918. [...] The claim circulating on social media is false. The poem was not written in 1869 but in March 2020, by Catherine (Kitty) O’Meara, a retired teacher from Madison, Wisconsin.
Claim: Public spending in Northern Ireland is 45% higher than it is in Ireland. (University of Liverpool, 2021-03-31)
Evidence (2021-03-31): Using public expenditure as a measure of public spending, total public expenditure per person in Northern Ireland in 2015–16 was 10% higher than in Ireland. More recently, it was near par with Ireland. As a part of national output (GDP), government consumption contributed an estimated 45% more, per person, in Northern Ireland than it did in Ireland. But government consumption excludes aspects of spending, like investment in roads and social welfare.
Claim: Public spending in Northern Ireland is 45% higher than it is in Ireland. (University of Liverpool, 2021-03-31)
Evidence (2022-03-02): Using public expenditure as a measure of public spending, total public expenditure per person in Northern Ireland in 2015–16 was 10% higher than in Ireland. More recently, it was near par with Ireland. As a part of national output (GDP), government consumption contributed an estimated 45% more, per person, in Northern Ireland than it did in Ireland. But government consumption excludes aspects of spending, like investment in roads and social welfare. [...] The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool has produced two videos as part of its Civic Space initiative, one which presents pro-Union arguments and another which presents pro-unity arguments. This fact check investigates a claim in the original version of the pro-Union video, which stated, "public spending in Northern Ireland is 45% higher than in Ireland". [...] The source of information in the original 45% claim is an academic paper published in March 2020 by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: "The Northern Ireland Economy: Problems and Prospects", written by Professors John FitzGerald and Edgar Morgenroth. In a section comparing the standard of living in Northern Ireland with that of the UK as a whole and Ireland, it states, "Funded by the transfer from central government, public [government] consumption per head in Northern Ireland was 45% higher than in Ireland."