• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Was Corona predicted 40 years ago?

stvdv

stvdv

Veteran Member
Terry Sampson said:
Sorry to break this to you: it's fake news.
My brother sent the same stuff to me.
Click to expand...
Don't be sorry. I am glad if people tell me the truth. I got this message today, googled a bit.
Then I thought "I put it on RF, they are always very helpful, to tell me it's right or wrong":D
 
stvdv

stvdv

Veteran Member
Mestemia said:
No.
With "Corona" being the name of a family of virii...
You do know that SARS is also a corona virus?
As is MERS.
In fact, they were originally called corona virus before the strain specific name was declared.

So someone saying that there will be a corona virus pandemic sometime in the future is not really a prediction so much as it is a reality.

Then add the fact that with MERS and SARS both being called Corona virus before they were given the names MERS and SARS, a lot of the "predictions" were not in fact predictions so much as talking about current or recently passed events.
I.E. the Simpsons.
Click to expand...

Seems to me, that SARS + MERS were over 20 years after the alleged prophecy, so that argument does not do it for me. Could still be a prophesy.
But maybe they had more Corona virus outbreak in other ages. I don't know, and this Dean Koontz had no Google in 1981 to fact check.

So @exchemist his point makes most sense to me Was Corona predicted 40 years ago? (still Dean Koontz could have been a bit of a visionair, but from this information, he maybe was the imaginair type)

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is viral respiratory illness that is new to humans. It was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and has since spread to several other countries, including the United States. Most people infected with MERS-CoV developed severe respiratory
illness, including fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Many of them have died.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Click to expand...
SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
 
exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
stvdv said:
Seems to me, that SARS + MERS were over 20 years after the alleged prophecy, so that argument does not do it for me. Could still be a prophesy.
But maybe they had more Corona virus outbreak in other ages. I don't know, and this Dean Koontz had no Google in 1981 to fact check.

So @exchemist his point makes most sense to me Was Corona predicted 40 years ago? (still Dean Koontz could have been a bit of a visionair, but from this information, he maybe was the imaginair type)


SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
Click to expand...
Coronaviruses are quite common. From what I have read, quite a number of common cold viruses are coronaviruses. The term simply relates to their appearance under the electron microscope. More here:
Coronavirus - Wikipedia
 
McBell

McBell

Unbound
stvdv said:
Seems to me, that SARS + MERS were over 20 years after the alleged prophecy, so that argument does not do it for me. Could still be a prophesy.
But maybe they had more Corona virus outbreak in other ages. I don't know, and this Dean Koontz had no Google in 1981 to fact check.

So @exchemist his point makes most sense to me Was Corona predicted 40 years ago? (still Dean Koontz could have been a bit of a visionair, but from this information, he maybe was the imaginair type)


SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
SARS, the First Pandemic of the 21st Century
Click to expand...

What are you talking about?
 
stvdv

stvdv

Veteran Member
shunyadragon said:
This nonsense is not only ridiculous
Click to expand...
Thank you for your view. Personally I don't call things "nonsense", maybe I would call something "non-sense".

shunyadragon said:
but could be dangerous interfering with the actual science and dealing with pandemics.
Click to expand...
I have science in higher esteem. Science should not be in danger, by just some info. Science will just work a bit harder to prove the truth.
 
stvdv

stvdv

Veteran Member
Mestemia said:
What are you talking about?
Click to expand...
The alleged prophecy was in 1981.
The outbreaks of SARS and MERS were after the year 2000.

So, this Dean might still have been a visionair

But as @exchemist explained, Wuhan might have been in the news around 1981, when the book was written or published:
"I note the Wuhan Institute of Virology came into existence under its current name in 1978 - though there was a lab there doing similar work before that. So not too strange for Koontz to choose it for a sci-fi novel in 1981."Was Corona predicted 40 years ago?

So, this Dean might have been a imaginair and not a visionair
 
McBell

McBell

Unbound
stvdv said:
The alleged prophecy was in 1981.
The outbreaks of SARS and MERS were after the year 2000.

So, this Dean might still have been a visionair

But as @exchemist explained, Wuhan might have been in the news around 1981, when the book was written or published:
"I note the Wuhan Institute of Virology came into existence under its current name in 1978 - though there was a lab there doing similar work before that. So not too strange for Koontz to choose it for a sci-fi novel in 1981."Was Corona predicted 40 years ago?

So, this Dean might have been a imaginair and not a visionair
Click to expand...
Hey, if you want it to be a prophecy that bad, go for it.
 
stvdv

stvdv

Veteran Member
exchemist said:
Coronaviruses are quite common. From what I have read, quite a number of common cold viruses are coronaviruses. The term simply relates to their appearance under the electron microscope. More here:
Coronavirus - Wikipedia
Click to expand...
Yes, seems like a Pandora Box, full of "surprises".

Maybe it is just part of nature's way to balance stuff or ...
Nothing more, nothing less
 
exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
Dan From Smithville said:
I fear a conspiracy between Disney, Koontz, the pharmaceutical industry and Satan. Perhaps @Deeje can get us all up to speed on this.
Click to expand...
..or @dad : he's trying to make our flesh creep with his "The End Is Nigh" sandwich-board, on another thread.

He thinks it's all about sex, of course, like that bloke we used to have in Oxford Street years ago, telling all to eat nuts to reduce our sex drive:
Stanley-Green-oxford-circus.jpg


: Stanley Green - Wikipedia
 
exchemist

exchemist

Veteran Member
dad said:
Unnatural things are different. Violating nature is not sex.
Click to expand...
Sex change is a matter of sex, hence the name: sex change. But indeed it is not a matter of the sexual act, I agree.

I rather struggle with this idea of "violating nature", philosophically. We have the same idea in the Catholic church (what they call "Natural Law"), and it has always struck me as shonky. Human beings intervene in natural processes all the time, whether it be medicine, or damming a river, or splitting the atom. None of this is seen as violating nature. Invocations of violating some law of nature in the world of Christianity seem invariably to occur in connection with.....sex.
 
ChristineM

ChristineM

"Be strong", I whispered to my coffee.
Premium Member
columbus said:
There have been lots of predictions made that actually came true.

Over a hundred years ago, an Amish farmer was quoted as saying "Why would I replace my horses with a gasoline powered tractor? My horses fertilize my fields. A tractor just makes smoke."

Arthur C Clarke wrote a story in the 60s about global communications. Then, the plot device was geosynchronous satellites beaming television. The anti-hero was a guy who beamed pornography into every home, complete with subliminal messages, bent on world domination. Little did Clarke realise that the internet was coming. Now such a criminal wouldn't even need TVs and porno. Facebook will work better.
Tom
Click to expand...

He is credited with being the inventor of the geosynchronous communications satellite.
 
dad

dad

Undefeated
exchemist said:
Sex change is a matter of sex, hence the name: sex change. But indeed it is not a matter of the sexual act, I agree.
Click to expand...
Subjecting children to this evil is absolutely wicked. Now you can call it what you like, or love it or whatever. It remains an example of national sin.

I rather struggle with this idea of "violating nature", philosophically. We have the same idea in the Catholic church (what they call "Natural Law"), and it has always struck me as shonky. Human beings intervene in natural processes all the time, whether it be medicine, or damming a river, or splitting the atom. None of this is seen as violating nature. Invocations of violating some law of nature in the world of Christianity seem invariably to occur in connection with.....sex.
Click to expand...

God created man female and male and ordained it that way. To destroy babies and violate the nature of mankind is simply not acceptable to God as far as I can tell in Scripture.
 
dad

dad

Undefeated
stvdv said:
Yes, seems like a Pandora Box, full of "surprises".

Maybe it is just part of nature's way to balance stuff or ...
Nothing more, nothing less
Click to expand...
Hey, maybe the destruction of the temple and city in Jerusalem was just nature's way to renovate? Maybe the destruction of Sodom was just nature's way of getting more salt? Maybe the flood was just nature's way of changing the climate? Maybe the Captivity of Israel was just nature's way of aiding the economy of Babylon? Etc. No.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top