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What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?
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COVID-19 is the realisation of an age old prophecy

This entry documents the baseless claim that COVID-19 fulfils an age-old prophecy. Adherents cite a Dean Koontz novel, Nostradamus's 'Great Plague,' and the mystic Baba Vanga—coincidental readings with no predictive power, rejected by scholars and scientists.

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  1. 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.
  2. COVID-19 is the realisation of Nostradamus' 'Great Plague'
    Recent interpretations of Nostradamus' predictions see COVID-19 as the long-awaited 'Great Plague' set to ravage a 'Sea City'.
  3. Novelist Dean Koontz predicted the COVID-19 in 1981
    In his foreboding thriller 'The Eyes of Darkness', Koontz imagines a man-made virus called Wuhan created in its namesake city, sweeping the globe. The novel calls it the 'perfect weapon'.