What!? Arrival of COVID-19 was truly predicted 40 years ago? Shocking!

COVID-19 arrival was already predicted 40 years ago? Well, it is difficult to believe at first, but yes, the spread of pneumonia like virus by 2020 was by the time mentioned already envisioned. It is in year 1981 that the American writer Dean Koontz, in his suspense novel named 'The Eyes of Darkness' had rightly mentioned the advent of a virus spread by 2020 that would attack the human lungs.

 

 

 

"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. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later and then disappear completely", the book that was first published on May, 10, 1981 noted.

 

The novel corona virus that was discovered in China's Wuhan premise in 2019 December, has till date claimed more than 3800 lives, leaving more than a lakh to still fight for their lives across the globe. The book by Koontz here notes the virus name as 'Wuhan-400' that drew parallel to the bioweapon. However, there are some identifiable differences between the real disease and the fiction bioweapon.

 

 

Further, according to the book, the then 'Wuhan-400', now 'corona virus' will quickly vanish and head up again after 10 years, say by 2030, and then vanish forever. 'The Eyes of Darkness' is about a mother who sends her son, on a camping trip with a leader who has led this trip into the mountains 16 times before without mishap; that is until this time.

 

 

Every single camper and leader and driver die with no explanation. As the grieving mother who is the protagonist begins to accept the fact that her son, Danny, is dead she starts getting vicious bully-like attacks from nowhere saying he is not dead, such as writing on chalkboards, words from printers and other various 'signs'. Along with her new friend, Elliot Stryker, Christina Evans sets out to find out what could have possibly happened on the day that her son died.