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Misty @dog2/5/2023, 7:43 PM

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Shel @shel2/4/2023, 3:35 AM

Y'know when COVID-19 hit it really felt so completely out of nowhere except apparently in March of 2019 Øyvind Thorsby predicted every single element of the pandemic almost exactly in his webcomic Twixie Slaughteraxe for President in a plotline literally about someone having the ability to see the future and y'know funnily enough he stopped making comics after his predictions came true in 2020.

Russel T. Davies also predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in his 2019 BBC miniseries Years and Years which premiered in May of 2019.

So somehow at least two people did actually have a sort of prophecy about what was about to start in November 2019 and then take off in 2020.

@Ongion2/5/2023, 2:34 AM

#999 #Zero Escape #Akane Kurashiki #Futility #high effort shitposting #I literally extracted these assets and assembled this myself #It took so long #Titanic

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ash @hierarchon2/4/2023, 3:43 AM

Death Stranding came out in November 2019!

Vincent Kinian @Video-Game-King2/4/2023, 4:37 AM

The lesson I take away from incidents like this isn't "these people have an uncanny precognition", but "the future is predictable."

There's a bit more to that thought, but I'm not in a headspace to develop on it at the moment.

Amy Dentata @amydentata2/4/2023, 4:39 AM

I think a parallel takeaway is that most people choose to ignore obvious things when they are large enough

sakiamu @sakiamu2/4/2023, 7:30 PM

And other folks had been predicting it for a long time too. Heck, I remember an bird and pig flu outbreaks being fussed over when I was a kid. Nothing ended up so large as COVID, though

tef @tef2/5/2023, 8:02 PM

Feb 2018: https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/962871903366057984

i guess since we’ve got the global depression and rise of fascism again we might as well have a pandemic too

“this flu is like a car crash waiting to happen”, i.e no-one gets blamed but the victims and nothing changes

related, here's a tweet from the day the first covid case was discovered

https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1196151998304964610

Shel @shel2/5/2023, 8:23 PM

I feel like you don't get credit after articles about COVID being discovered even if it's patient zero. You only get credit for predicting it before they found a novel virus

tef @tef2/5/2023, 8:35 PM

Yes that's why I linked to tweets from 2018, talking about "we might as well have a pandemic"

The november 19th case of patient zero only came to light a few months later. I just thought it was funny that I was posting about being in full face respirator.

All of these tweets predate the Dec 2019 reports of pneumonia in china

Shel @shel2/5/2023, 8:39 PM

Wait I think I misunderstood your comment sorry

Shel @shel2/5/2023, 8:39 PM

Oh I understand now the second paragraph is about a second tweet from a different date

Keeble @Keeble10/12/2023, 5:45 PM

yeah in late 2019 i read this truly fantastic debut fiction work called severance, by ling ma. its about the before and after of a pandemic that starts in china and explodes in new york city, from the perspective of someone kind of trying to ignore it and keep working.

gave it to my mom to read on a cruise in jan 2020. on this cruise, she read the first news stories about this new virus in wuhan

she bought n95s the second she got home lmao

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