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NÃO EXISTEM COINCIDÊNCIAS: O COVID19

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  • Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?
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    Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

    Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

      • https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/no-dean-koontz-did-not-predict-coronavirus-in-1981-thriller-novel-1.4822194

        TORONTO — A passage from author Dean Koontz’s 1981 fictional novel “The Eyes of Darkness” has gone viral for purportedly predicting the real-world outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

        Segments of the novel have been shared widely on social media over the last week, showing eerie similarities between the COVID-19 virus and the book’s fictional outbreak called “Wuhan-400.”

        “They call the stuff Wuhan-400 because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan,” reads a passage from the book, which can be seen on Amazon’s preview of the paperback edition of the novel published in December 2008.

        While the novel includes mention of Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the book’s fictionalized outbreak is far from reality.

        For starters, the “Wuhan-400” virus from the novel is a human-made biological weapon. The coronavirus is not, despite online rumours suggesting the new virus was created in a lab early on in the outbreak.

        Fact-checking website Snopes points out that in the novel, the “Wuhan-400” virus had a 100 per cent fatality rate, whereas the current coronavirus fatality rate sits at about two per cent.

        The fact-checking website also notes that while the 2008 publication of the book mentions Wuhan, other iterations of the book used a different name for the fictional weapon.

        “When we searched a 1981 edition of this book available via Google Books we found no references to “Wuhan.” In that edition, this biological weapon is called “Gorki-400” after the Russian city where it was created,” reads the Snopes investigation.

        “We’re not entirely sure when or why this change occurred. From what we can tell, the biological weapon was originally called ‘Gorki-400’ when this book was published in 1981. But by 2008, the name had been changed to ‘Wuhan-400.’”

        CTVNews.ca has contacted the publisher for comment on the matter.

      • Wait, did Dean Koontz predict the coronavirus in 1981?

        Andrew Paul

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        COVID-19, a new strain of coronavirus, while certainly a spooky major headline story in early 2020, still seems like it’s not something the average American needs to worry over at the moment. That’s not to say it isn’t a nastily infectious virus, but it still only has around a 2% fatality rate, so the odds certainly remain in your favor, unless you recently hopped aboard a cruise ship. Still, it would’ve been nice to have seen something like this coming, though, right? These viral outbreaks are always pretty nasty surprises. If only someone could have warned us about this new disease from Wuhan, China? Well, other than that missing citizen journalist, Chen Qiushi, or the late Dr. Li Wenliang, who tragically died from the disease they tried so desperately to warn the world about.

        Wait a second…

        Dean Koontz prophesied all this almost 40 years ago? Dean Koontz! (Also, wait a second, 1981 was almost 40 years ago? Good God).

        “In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments,” reads a passage from Koontz’s 1981 novel, The Eyes of Darkness, which then goes on to describe a Chinese scientist defecting to the U.S. named—wait for it—Li Chen with information on “Wuhan-400,” the man-made disease ravaging the planet.

        Snopes has already rated Twitter’s evidence of Koontz’s Nostradamus-like abilities as “Mostly False,” citing that such “evidence” as:

        • 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.

        Look, Snopes, we’re not idiots. Technically “Mostly False” means it’s “A Little Bit True,” which in turn obviously means Dean Koontz is a soothsayer we must all start taking a bit more seriously. So what other insanity does that portend for 2020? Is Snopes a Chinese psyop trying to cover up Dean Koontz’s soothsaying abilities? We’ll go ahead and rate that as “Mostly False,” too, but we all know what that means…

        Tell us our futures, Dean Koontz.

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        Andrew Paul

        Andrew Paul’s work is recently featured by Rolling Stone, GQ, The Forward, and The Believer, as well as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and TNY’s Daily Shouts.