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Two books written years ago predict Coronavirus.. sorta
Of course, the first thing I do is run to snopes. Coles notes: Their conclusion: Mostly False. Mostly?! Whaaat? I totally expected it to say false in big red letters, but it seems the pages we are seeing around the internet are real!
Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?
If a prediction is only noticed after an incident occurs, is it really a prediction?
Snopes
Here are a few things this “prediction” gets wrong:
- In Koontz’s novel, “Wuhan-400” is a human-made weapon. The coronavirus, on the other hand, was not.
- In the novel, “Wuhan-400” has a 100% fatality rate. While researchers are still learning about the coronavirus, the current fatality rate sits at about 2%.
- The fictional “Wuhan-400” has an extremely quick incubation period of about four hours, compared to COVID-19 which has an incubation period between two and 14 days.
Hmm maybe they need to update that first reason to inconclusive? 😬 The other two reasons, well, it’s a book, 2% doesn’t have the same impact – and yikes, deadly quick incubation? I’d say 14 days is way worse. Regardless, the whole thing is bizarre!
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Dean Koontz wrote this book under his pen name “Leigh Nichols” in 1981. The original book described the virus as Gorki-400, a Russian made virus. 😛 Then for some reason he reissued the book in 2008 which included renaming the virus to Wuhan-400, a Chinese variant. It’ll be interesting to see what he has to say. Obviously it’s just a big coincidence, but it’s all so “Twilight Zone”!
As for the other future prediction, that was also published in 2008 by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison – End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies About the End of the World. Honestly, the title of the book is ominous all on it’s own. And it’s predictions! And they sorta got it right! — It can vanish anytime soon now!
