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Big question is HOW did Koontz know of this 39 years ago?
I thought from the get go this was lab grown, now I strongly believe it is airborne as well!
Scary stuff for sure.

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probably never - due to lack of testicular fortitude!!! :evil:
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Is it not possible that this old book gave some chicom employee the idea to sneak the virus out of the lab without gov. approval ? Just a thought. :?
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The first picture showing page 312 is not from Koontz's novel. This actually comes from a book called “End of Days” by self-described psychic Sylvia Browne.
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Like JimT said, the first book in the picture isn't Koontz. The second book is Koontz, but a later edition. For about the first 15 years the book actually called the virus by a Russian location, not a chinese one.

Why has the virus hit Italy so hard? because they didn't isolate early enough, and they are very fond of all kissing each other on the cheeks.
Why did it hit the US so hard? again, didn't isolate early enough, and when Trump suggested the idea of isolating New York the mayor of New York apparently told him he couldn't do it because that would be illegal (I'm assuming that's because of your constitutional right to be free).

Lastly, don't believe everything you hear about china having it completely under control, but yes, they are ahead of you. The reason they are ahead of you is because their right to freedom goes a bit like this "you have the right to be free within your own home, or you have the right to be shot. "
Part of the reason for their lower numbers could be that people who die of multiple gunshot wounds don't get counted as corona virus deaths :o :o :o

There are some who poopoo conspiracy theories by saying that if china made a virus to help them take over the world, they'd make one that was 90 + % lethal, forgetting of course that they don't need to kill 90% of the people, they only need to kill the economy and then wait for the people to welcome them with open arms when they offer aid. You're already buying tens of millions of facemasks, gallons of hand sanitizer, and cartons of latex gloves off them.
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It's way more comfortable if you don't wear your tin foil too tight. :lol:
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Blaine wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:03 am It's way more comfortable if you don't wear your tin foil too tight. :lol:
Blaine is right on...

As much as I'd like to blame SOMEONE for this mess we're all in, Snopes says the following about that passage by Koontz.

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Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

It’s true that Koontz named a fictional biological weapon “Wuhan-400” in this novel. It’s also true that Wuhan, China, is the city at the center of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. However, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. 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.

But there’s more bad news for this prediction.

* While the page from Koontz’s novel displayed above is genuine, other iterations of this book used a different name for the fictional biological weapon. In fact, 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.

* 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.”

* Regardless of when “Wuhan-400” made its way into Koontz’ novel, this is not a prediction. Koontz did not claim that the events that took place in his novel would later come to fruition, and the similarities between “Wuhan-400” and COVID-19 are minimal. Furthermore, readers only noticed this “prediction” after an outbreak of coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China, which makes this “prediction” nothing more than a coincidence.
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Good grief, folks. Never forget -- anything you read online is AT LEAST 50% likely to be a completely fabricated piece of garbage. On another forum I frequent, a number of people got their panties in a wad just a couple of days ago over a "news" article posted on a "news" outlet THAT CLEARLY ANNOUNCES ITSELF TO BE A SATIRICAL HUMOR SITE. Even after this was pointed out, SOME ARE STILL BELIEVING THE STORY TO BE TRUE.

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Old No7 wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:35 pm
Blaine wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:03 am It's way more comfortable if you don't wear your tin foil too tight. :lol:
Blaine is right on...

As much as I'd like to blame SOMEONE for this mess we're all in, Snopes says the following about that passage by Koontz.

Old No7

Was Coronavirus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

It’s true that Koontz named a fictional biological weapon “Wuhan-400” in this novel. It’s also true that Wuhan, China, is the city at the center of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. However, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. 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.

But there’s more bad news for this prediction.

* While the page from Koontz’s novel displayed above is genuine, other iterations of this book used a different name for the fictional biological weapon. In fact, 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.

* 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.”

* Regardless of when “Wuhan-400” made its way into Koontz’ novel, this is not a prediction. Koontz did not claim that the events that took place in his novel would later come to fruition, and the similarities between “Wuhan-400” and COVID-19 are minimal. Furthermore, readers only noticed this “prediction” after an outbreak of coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China, which makes this “prediction” nothing more than a coincidence.

and you trust Snopes 100%??? :mrgreen:
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