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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think I have a good name for the Trump cultists who call this virus a hoax:
"Branch Covidians". They may not be in WACO, but they are certainly whacko.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,879 posts)Whatthe_Firetruck
(558 posts)So there was a woman prophet who wrote a book in 2008. https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/sylvia-brownes-bogus-coronavirus-prophecies/
I'm pretty sure those who believe in this are the ones who got tRump to say covid would be short lasting.
"In recent weeks theres been many rumors, myths, and misinformation about the current coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19. One of the most curious is the recent resurrection of a posthumous prediction by psychic Sylvia Browne.
In her 2008 book End of Days, Browne predicted that In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.
This led to many on social media assuming that Browne had accurately predicted the Covid-19 outbreak, and Kim Kardashian among others shared such posts, causing the book to become a best-seller once again.
Theres a lot packed into these two sentences, and I recently did a deep dive into it. First, we have an indefinite date range (in around 2020), which depends on how loosely you interpret the word around, but plausibly covers seven (or more) years. Browne predicted A severe pneumonia-like illness, but Covid-19 is not a severe pneumonia-like illness (though it can in some cases lead to pneumonia). Most of those infected (about 80 percent) have mild symptoms and recover just fine, and the disease has a mortality rate of between 2 percent and 4 percent. Browne claims it will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes, and Covid-19 has indeed spread throughout the globe, but Browne also says the disease shes describing resists all known treatments. This does not describe Covid-19; in fact, doctors know how to treat the diseaseits essentially the same for influenza or other similar respiratory infections. This coronavirus is not resisting all (or any) known treatments."
Her 2004 book also predicted covid like symptoms and both stated it would end quickly.
marybourg
(12,639 posts)MontanaMama
(23,344 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
RoadRunner
(4,495 posts)There are some in Waco.
gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)brush
(53,922 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Squinch
(51,025 posts)TwilightZone
(25,493 posts)Daddy J
(11 posts)struggle4progress
(118,378 posts)drmeow
(5,027 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Quite fitting for the kool-aid drinking maggots!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,468 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)JesterCS
(1,827 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Dead.
Talitha
(6,622 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Orrex
(63,228 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Very clever.
Hekate
(90,848 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Danascot
(4,695 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Its perfection, Atticus!!!
42bambi
(1,753 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,572 posts)Yours is great! The only thing I had was "Republicans."
Joinfortmill
(14,477 posts)jmbar2
(4,910 posts)3catwoman3
(24,056 posts)One of the best things Ive read all week.
BadGimp
(4,019 posts)AnnieBW
(10,465 posts)My friend's ex-husband was one of the first ATF agents through the door in Waco. He was telling me all of the good jokes when I visited them.
Orrex
(63,228 posts)And to let you know that I've stolen your excellent coinage and already used it online.
DBoon
(22,401 posts)"Pandemic fatalities"
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)They are willing idiotic humans though and loyal to a fault?
A horrific combo!
Dufus is going to kill off a lot of them with this too as a result of his toxic rhetoric and evil nonsense for a buck.