Here are the books and movies with surprising similarities to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But can any of them be said to have predicted COVID-19?
Epidemics and plagues have stalked humanity for centuries, inspiring literature and other forms of art stretching back to before we even had the germ theory of disease. In books like Daniel Defoe's the human toll of epidemics are explored. Viruses and other diseases have also become a popular topic for movies and television, kicking off zombie pandemics in. Some artists find meaning in plague and its rippling effects through society, others see only useless death.
Some of these viral predictions require so much stretching they can't be said to have even superficially predicted the coronavirus pandemic. Others are so close, you'll wonder if the predictor really could see into the future .published in 1842, movie released in 1964American International Pictures / Orion Pictures
The Red Death doesn't resemble COVID-19 symptoms at all, nor does its prognosis, which kills its victims within minutes."The whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour," Poe writes.But while there's nothing in the disease itself that could be seen as predicting the novel coronavirus pandemic, Poe's social diagnosis is likely to sound a little more familiar.
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