Book Predicts Coronavirus Outbreak

I'm usually just a lurker on these forums and don't post much at all, but I figured this would be interesting for people to see. Also, not sure if it's been posted before, so if so, then I apologise.

A book titled End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World, written by Sylvia Browne, also predicted the global outbreak of coronavirus. The book was first published in 2008. A photo of an excerpt from the book is going viral across social media platforms and is spooky enough to reach for that box of tissues to wipe your sweat.

a reply to: Vanchatron

Looks like she said it would be bacterial not a virus.

Very interesting anyways. Thanks for making the OP, S&F.



Will be interesting to see if it disappears and comes back ten years later.

a reply to: LookingAtMars
Sorry, lazy, but is there more than the picture; I don't see anything saying bacterial vs. viral?

originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: Vanchatron

Looks like she said it would be bacterial not a virus.

Very interesting anyways. Thanks for making the OP, S&F.

Will be interesting to see if it disappears and comes back ten years later.

And! People will start electrocuting themselves in a sauna now (“bacteria killed by electricity and extreme heat”), even though the paragraph below is a clear swing and miss.
It’s only one page out of numerous misses I’m sure.

A 2017 Asterix comic book has Asterix battling a masked Roman called "Coronavirus".

These instances are weird.

Also don't forget Dean Koontz's book that was edited in 1989 to have a biowarfare agent get unleashed from a lab in Wuhan.

Cheers

Each and every type of this kind of virus is a "coronavirus".
We, as human species, have been through many coronaviruses.
This is not the first nor last of its kind.
I can't see why it so strange that fictional books have been written about it?
You don't have to be Nostradamus nor a psychic to predict a global pandemic because it has been happening for million of years.

Bacteria is like a living invader, viruses are like a computer code, computer virus.
One can be killed, the other is not living

This does not seem to be a bacteria as antibiotics should work on a bacteria
Seems like the book is wrong

www.diffen.com...

Where does the book claim it's bacterial? It's the bit in the red outline that I was pointing out. The bit above it is most likely about something totally unrelated.

Stephen Kings the Stand did a pretty good job capturing the madness of what a breakout like this could do. Must watch the movie now.

a reply to: Vanchatron

I don't believe in Sylvia Brown for a second, but that's my take as well. Clearly bullet points on different events.

originally posted by: Halfswede
a reply to: LookingAtMars
Sorry, lazy, but is there more than the picture; I don't see anything saying bacterial vs. viral?

It's in the paragraph above the circled one. I guess it could be talking about an other event.

It would help to see the whole page.

originally posted by: RadioRobert
a reply to: Vanchatron

I don't believe in Sylvia Brown for a second, but that's my take as well. Clearly bullet points on different events.

I don't believe in the bible either, but make enough prophecies, and word them ambiguously enough, and at some point you're gonna get close enough to convince some folks you're a prophet.

Superb thread, immediate star and flag!!!

originally posted by: TexasTruth
And! People will start electrocuting themselves in a sauna now (“bacteria killed by electricity and extreme heat”)

What do you mean "start"?

No, i am just kidding. I have an electric sauna and i was there pouring out some serious sweat three hours ago, i wonder if that counts

Sylvia Browne was a charlatan. Believe me, I used to read her woo books. Another psychic hoaxer.

A chain smoker that can supposedly interact with the spirit realm.... please!

originally posted by: KKLOCO
Sylvia Browne was a charlatan. Believe me, I used to read her woo books. Another psychic hoaxer.

A chain smoker that can supposedly interact with the spirit realm.... please!

I don't even know who she is, but regardless it's still pretty accurate. I just thought it was interesting. Describes Coronavirus quite accurately as well, instead of just saying "an illness will occur".

3030 foretold 2020

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A psychic selling a doom porn book about the end of days that reads like a cheap, nontheistic book of revelation playbook.

Hasn't she been a hit on talk shows like Montel Williams in the past? Housewives love that stuff.

originally posted by: KKLOCO
Sylvia Browne was a charlatan. Believe me, I used to read her woo books. Another psychic hoaxer.

A chain smoker that can supposedly interact with the spirit realm.... please!

Smoking should have nothing to do with interacting with the spirit realm!

What, the spirits are moral and ethical? You smoke so you're a bad person, no future doom porn revelations for you to write in a book for hundreds of thousands in sales.

Does it clog your chakras? Probably lowers your vibrational frequencies like GMO foods.

a reply to: Vanchatron
According to Wiki

In 2010, the Skeptical Inquirer published a detailed three-year study by Ryan Shaffer and Agatha Jadwiszczok that examined Browne's predictions about missing persons and murder cases. Despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, the study reported that "Browne has not even been mostly correct in a single case." The study compared Browne's televised statements about 115 cases with newspaper reports and found that in the 25 cases where the actual outcome was known, she was completely wrong in every one.

Just another cult leader/ 'psychic' charlatan.

a reply to: Vanchatron

The Spanish Flu pretty much showed us what could happen and that was 100 years ago.

We refuse to learn from one generation to the next, its kind of our bag really, and then some.

The virus will run its course just like any other and given the infostructure and transportation hubs we have all over the globe in this day of age, and the fact that we exist within a global community, there is not really much we can do to prevent the spread of the pathogen, short of creating a firesale that our respective first world nations are never lightly to recover from.

We simply have to soldier on and get on with the job at hand, so just like any other day really.