What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?

The Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga predicted the virus in the 1970s

Question: What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?
Position1 of 6›: COVID-19 is the realisation of an age old prophecy
Argument1 of 3›: The Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga predicted the virus in the 1970s

Russian state-backed media has alleged that Baba Vanga predicted a devastating global health epidemic akin to COVID-19.

The argument

So-called 'Balkan Nostradamus' Baba Vanga claimed an uncontainable virus would fill every corner of the globe in 2020. Before she died, while visiting a friend she claimed that "the Corona will be all over us." This clearly refers to COVID-19, an eerily prescient prediction.

Context

(ALERT: Visit the WHO for accurate information about the coronavirus pandemic) Some believe the predictions made by blind Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga before her 1996 death, are accurate. These people claim Vanga prophesied huge global events including the 2004 tsunami, Obama's presidency, and famously the fall of the twin towers, when she cried,"Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."

Premises

[P1]The Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga is said to have claimed before her death that an uncontainable virus would engulf the globe, reportedly remarking that "the Corona will be all over us." [P2] Proponents interpret this remark as an eerily prescient reference to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. [C] On this basis, proponents claim COVID-19 is the realisation of Baba Vanga's age-old prophecy — a reading that rests on a vague, retrospectively interpreted remark rather than any verifiable prediction.

Counter-arguments

Many of Baba Vanga's alleged prophecies remain unrealised. These include a four year global war in 2010, the 1994 FIFA World Cup finalists and the end of the US Presidency. The idea that Baba Vanga predicted COVID-19 is nothing but misinformation from the pro-Kremlin media.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The remark has no documented source. Baba Vanga left no writings, and the sayings attributed to her circulate through second-hand retellings published long after her death in 1996 — this one appearing in tabloid coverage only after the pandemic it supposedly foretold. [Rejecting P2] The reading depends on hearing 'corona' as the name of a disease, when the word ordinarily means a crown, and the virus was named for its crown-like appearance only later. A match that can be made solely in hindsight, from a remark specifying no disease, place, mechanism or date, cannot be tested — which is the standing objection to the whole class of retrospectively fitted prophecy, and several forecasts attributed to her simply did not occur.