On Wednesday, Kim Kardashian shared an excerpt from a book on Twitter that she said had predicted the coronavirus epidemic years earlier.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, 39, posted a photo from the 2008 book Of Of Days, written by the late Sylvia Brown, an author who claimed to be psychic.
The extract claimed that a “ disease similar to severe pneumonia ” would occur worldwide in 2020.
Spooky: Kim Kardashian, 39, shared a book excerpt on Twitter Wednesday from Sylvia Browne, a self-proclaimed psychic who she claims had predicted the coronavirus epidemic years earlier; posted on February 9
Kim shared a photo of the circled passage on Twitter and copied it to her Instagram stories.
“Kourtney just posted it on our group conversation,” she wrote.
Browne wrote that the disease “would spread around the world, attacking the lungs and bronchi and resistant to all known treatments.
“Almost more disconcerting than the disease itself will be the fact that it will suddenly go away on arrival, attack again ten years later, and then go away completely,” she wrote.
Close: Browne wrote that the disease “would spread around the world, attacking the lungs and bronchi and resistant to all known treatments” in his 2008 book, End Of Days.
Strange coincidence: some users linked it to a passage from Dean Koontz’s 1983 thriller, The Eyes Of Darkness, which describes a “ strain of man-made microorganism ” called “ Wuhan-400 ” ”
Browne wrote the book with Lindsay Harrison, and it was published five years before her death in 2013 at age 77.
The fact-finding website Snopes.com points out that the SARS virus occurred a few years before the book was published and may have inspired the passage.
His description of a “pneumonia-like disease” that attacks the “lungs and bronchi” seems to fairly describe respiratory disease.
However, most people who get COVID-19 experience quite mild symptoms, although people over the age of 60 and those with compromised immune systems are at greater risk of complications or death.
Browne’s paragraph also goes far beyond this current epidemic.
The passage quickly spread to social media, and some users connected it to a strange passage from Dean Koontz’s 1983 thriller, The Eyes Of Darkness, which describes a “ strain of microorganism created by the man ”, called “ Wuhan-400.
COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus was first reported in China’s Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, although the virus is not of human origin.
Not quite: the unnamed Browne virus seems much more serious than COVID-19, and its prediction that it will go away quickly and come back 10 years later is unlikely; shown in 2010
Poor track record: Brown sadly contributed to numerous kidnapping investigations and often gave false or discredited information to law enforcement or families; photographed in 2010
Browne was best known in her life for writing over 40 books and was a frequent guest on talk shows, during which she did psychic readings with guests or callers.
But she was almost as infamous for her repeated false or discredited predictions.
In 2002, she claimed that the 11-year-old kidnapped Shawn Hornbeck had been abducted by a Latin man with dreadlocks and dark skin, but when Hornbeck was found alive in 2007, it turned out that he was kidnapped by a white man.
In 2004, Browne told Amanda Berry’s mother that her kidnapped daughter was dead, going so far as to suggest that her body had been thrown into the water and that the killer’s DNA could be found on her jacket.
Berry’s mother died two years later, and Berry was found alive with two other abducted women.
Browne made many other significant mistakes in predicting the results of the kidnappings, and she was even wrongly 11 years of age to die.
Safety first: Kim shared what she called the best way to greet people without shaking hands with her 162 million Instagram followers earlier on Wednesday while at her sister Khloé Kardashian’s house; presented on March 1 in Paris
First: Kim and Khloé visited a doctor and a friend who decided to demonstrate his preferred method of greeting in order to limit the transmission of the disease
Earlier Wednesday, Kim revealed her favorite method of welcoming people while limiting the spread of the disease.
She filmed a friend and a visiting doctor hitting each other’s feet as a greeting, rather than shaking hands or bending.
“So you shouldn’t be bending because you’re coughing in your elbow,” she said. “So, no more elbows!” she says.
However, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Adhanom Ghebreyesus, recommends staying 1 meter (3 feet) apart, so Kim’s method can still keep people too close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. or other illnesses.
Tap: They faced each other and tapped the side of the shoes diagonally like a handshake, first one foot then the other
Professional Opinion: The Director General of the World Health Organization recommends staying 1 meter (3 feet) apart, so Kim’s method may still be too close
