Great author I enjoy his books, loved Intensity.
he didnt predict it - the whole idea is from the Flu pandemic of 1918 - its a clone of Spephen Kings the Stand whuch also has a worldwide flu pandemic that nearly ends the world -
I don't believe the page in the OP is from Koontz' book, it's a Sylvia Browne "psychic" prediction. The Koontz storyline actually mentioned the city of Wuhan. The tweet below has both pages.
It's enough to fuck with society.. That's all you need a lil curveball to fuck with human emotions, economic markets, death tolls, etcI'm confused
So massive flu spreads globally
Disappears
Comes back
Disappears again
Does not sound riveting
I'm confused
So massive flu spreads globally
Disappears
Comes back
Disappears again
Does not sound riveting
That sylvia brown used to freak me the hell out back in college watching Montell
She just appeared accurate as hell
I don't believe the page in the OP is from Koontz' book, it's a Sylvia Browne "psychic" prediction. The Koontz storyline actually mentioned the city of Wuhan. The tweet below has both pages.
I'm confused
So massive flu spreads globally
Disappears
Comes back
Disappears again
Does not sound riveting
Here is the excerpt I mentioned earlier.
Most of us think of the flu as a fairly minor disease, and for most of us it is. At worst we lie in bed for a week or so, feeling miserable. But for the old and the very young the flu can be deadly; it kills those with the weakest or least developed immune systems, some 30,000 people a year in the United States. But sometimes a real pandemic happens and the death rate rises. It has never risen more than it did in 1918.
The 1918 world influenza pandemic is the most deadly plague that human beings have ever experienced. It began in 1918, just as war was drawing to a close, and lasted until December of 1920. World War I (which ended in 1918) killed some 17 million people. In contrast, the influenza pandemic, spread around the world by returning soldiers, killed six times as many in half the time — perhaps as many as 130 mil-lion people. The first wave of the pandemic began in January of 1918 and it was fairly routine. People became ill but only the very old and very young died; it was, so far, a pretty typical flu. But the virus soon mutated. And the second wave? It was deadly. It killed those with the strongest immune systems. Half of those who died were between the ages of 20 and 40; nearly all were under age 65. And it killed them by the millions.
Instead of the usual respiratory infection, with death occurring as the lungs filled with fluid, massive hemorrhages took place. The infected lung cells, and those nearby, damaged by the virus-stimulated cytokine storm (see page 29 for more on cytokines), literally burst open from the inflammation. And unlike most viral influenzas this one did not stay confined to the respiratory system. It spread to the GI tract, the brain, and every mucous membrane system in the body. First it destroyed the infected mucosal epithelial cells, then the blood vessels that fed them inflamed and burst open. Bleeding was extensive from the nose, stomach, and intestines; hemorrhages from the skin and ears were common. The infected literally bled out. And nothing physicians tried would stop it.
1To understand the impact, consider the fact that, in a world reeling from war, one-third of the entire world’s population contracted the disease — over 500 million people. In some places half the population was bedridden. As troops demobilized, the ships returning them home from war stopped at hundreds of ports along the way, and the infection spread across the globe. On the islands of Western Samoa 90 percent of the population fell ill — simultaneously. Thirty percent of the men,22 percent of the women, and 10 percent of the children died.
In an attempt to stop the infection, port quarantines were put into effect around the world. Most were too late to do any good. One out of every three persons on Earth fell ill. One out of every five of those died. Five percent of the total world population — one out of every 20 people — did not survive the pandemic. Within the first 6 months 25 million people died, more than were killed in 5 years of war. Entire towns and cities were shut down.
There were few professionals to help the sick. Doctors and nurses were the first responders and they succumbed immediately. (The morticians followed soon after.) The infected filled the hospitals, school gymnasiums, auditoriums — every large building that could hold masses of people was pressed into service. The beds and the floors were awash in blood as the people died . . . and hemorrhaged by the hundreds and the thousands while doing it. And the bodies piled up. Steam shovels were brought in and mass graves dug — row after row after row of identically sized holes stretching across empty fields in a terrible mockery of industrial expediency. Then the trucks came, the bodies piled high on the wooden beds, and the masked workers dropped them in, hour by hour, day by day, month after month. And behind them, the steam shovels covered them over . . . one by one, day by day, for the 2 terrible years of the pandemic. There were few coffins and often no headstones. The system was completely overwhelmed. Not even a full century of the Black Plague had killed like this. In the history of human habitation of Earth, never had a disease spread so quickly around the world nor killed so many in so short a time. Only one place on Earth reported no infections: the tiny island of Marajó near Brazil in South America. And then, as inexplicably as it had begun, in a 1-month period of time, between November and December of 1920, the pandemic ended, simultaneously, around the globe.
Much effort has been expended in recent years in an attempt to understand what made that particular influenza strain so much more deadly than all the others people have known. It turns out that there were two interrelated events that came together in just the right way at just the right time in a terrible serendipity of the universe. From that intermingling came the worst pandemic the human species has ever experienced.
The first event was the emergence of a new strain of influenza at just the right time in human history. An analysis of the viral genome from 1918 has revealed that a new influenza strain had jumped spe-cies (from birds) just prior to 1913. By 1915 the virus had split into two types: one infecting pigs, the other humans. The second event was the war itself, which began with perfect timing in 1914.
Normally, when people fall ill with the flu, they go home and rest. The soldiers could not and the new influenza strain rapidly spread throughout the troops on both sides of the conflict. Constrained in cramped, unhealthy conditions, in hospital tents and in trenches, the soldiers were a perfect breeding ground for the virus. And sometime between 1915 and late 1917 the virus mutated again, this time into a form that could powerfully infect just that kind of population: the young. Then, the war over, the soldiers, millions of whom were infected, were crowded together in ships (there was no air travel then) that sailed from port to port to port, infecting as they went. Once home port was reached, the soldiers took trains, buses, and cars to their individual towns and cities. And the virus went with them, infecting everyone.
Re-created forms of the strain, patiently assembled in laboratories, when given to primates, have been found to generate the same symp-toms as those described, in depth, by the physicians who treated the 1918 pandemic. An analysis of the physiological damage that occurs found that the reason the disease is so severe is that the virus creates a tremendously potent cytokine cascade in the body — a cytokine storm. A perfect storm. These cytokines are immunoregulatory proteins stimulated by the body’s innate immune system in response to infec-tion. The cytokine cascade is how the body attempts to kill off the invading pathogen. But this was much more than the usual immune response. The immune reaction was extreme, somewhere between 100 and 1,000 times what would be normal in those who were infected. And that overreaction, much more pronounced in those with strong immune systems, is what killed so many so quickly.
It is just this kind of influenza pandemic that epidemiologists and viral researchers fear will emerge once more. Given the current popu-lation density (and the crowding in prisons, nursing homes, hospitals, day care centers, and inner cities), the ecological disruptions that are occurring worldwide, the number of viruses that are jumping species, the rate of mutation, and the vast and very rapid movement of people via air travel, they say it is only a matter of time. And in spite of the many advances in medical technology, there is very little that modern medicine can do to treat a widespread pandemic of deadly influenza. Pharmaceutical antivirals are only partially effective for this kind of infection and the stocks of those antivirals are insufficient to deal with a true pandemic. And vaccines? Vaccines take time.
Flu vaccines have to be made for the specific virus that emerges in that year. This means that the disease will already be moving throughout the world before production even begins. And if it is a true pandemic of a deadly strain, by the time the vaccine is produced and shipped (normally a 3- to 6-month process), the infrastructure of the world will already be failing. The health-care workers, hospitals, and transportation workers will be the first to fall. Then the morticians and cemetery workers. The system will begin to shut down. Quaran-tines, forcing people to stay in their homes, will be put into effect to try and stop the spread. And people will survive as best they can, just as they always have.
Holy hell
Wtf did i just read?
I KNEW about this but apparently i didn't REALLY KNOW.
Holy hell
Wtf did i just read?
I KNEW about this but apparently i didn't REALLY KNOW.
I haven't watched it yet, but this diary has a video about that time period.
Can you take pics with your phone?When I get a chance I'm going to post a description of what happened in 1918. It's in a Kindle book I have and I can't cut and paste so if I can't find another source I'll have to either type it all up manually or strip the drm.
Can you take pics with your phone?
Thank you.
Sorry about my response i knew you were searching for it on my behalf it was just the shock after reading it.
Ummm...ok...I didn't see anything wrong with your response tho. I just came across the video and posted it because it was related.
I thought when i said what the hell did i just read you took it the wrong way...
If the apocalypse is coming?
I need to be sure WE always good.
No, I just figured you freaked out a bit. I always assume the best intentions on your part. If I had thought there was friction between us I'd have spoken privately with you.
Thanks sis
Yes i did freak out
To be honest as a father and especially with health stuff i always have to present as calm and sure. But this thing has really got me frozen. I'm really worried but at the same time panicking isn't gonna help a darn thing. And hearing the Governor here crack jokes then the so called leader of the free world bumble stumble and look sick while addressing a nation is not what i call reassuring
Here is the excerpt I mentioned earlier.
Most of us think of the flu as a fairly minor disease, and for most of us it is. At worst we lie in bed for a week or so, feeling miserable. But for the old and the very young the flu can be deadly; it kills those with the weakest or least developed immune systems, some 30,000 people a year in the United States. But sometimes a real pandemic happens and the death rate rises. It has never risen more than it did in 1918.
The 1918 world influenza pandemic is the most deadly plague that human beings have ever experienced. It began in 1918, just as war was drawing to a close, and lasted until December of 1920. World War I (which ended in 1918) killed some 17 million people. In contrast, the influenza pandemic, spread around the world by returning soldiers, killed six times as many in half the time — perhaps as many as 130 mil-lion people. The first wave of the pandemic began in January of 1918 and it was fairly routine. People became ill but only the very old and very young died; it was, so far, a pretty typical flu. But the virus soon mutated. And the second wave? It was deadly. It killed those with the strongest immune systems. Half of those who died were between the ages of 20 and 40; nearly all were under age 65. And it killed them by the millions.
Instead of the usual respiratory infection, with death occurring as the lungs filled with fluid, massive hemorrhages took place. The infected lung cells, and those nearby, damaged by the virus-stimulated cytokine storm (see page 29 for more on cytokines), literally burst open from the inflammation. And unlike most viral influenzas this one did not stay confined to the respiratory system. It spread to the GI tract, the brain, and every mucous membrane system in the body. First it destroyed the infected mucosal epithelial cells, then the blood vessels that fed them inflamed and burst open. Bleeding was extensive from the nose, stomach, and intestines; hemorrhages from the skin and ears were common. The infected literally bled out. And nothing physicians tried would stop it.
1To understand the impact, consider the fact that, in a world reeling from war, one-third of the entire world’s population contracted the disease — over 500 million people. In some places half the population was bedridden. As troops demobilized, the ships returning them home from war stopped at hundreds of ports along the way, and the infection spread across the globe. On the islands of Western Samoa 90 percent of the population fell ill — simultaneously. Thirty percent of the men,22 percent of the women, and 10 percent of the children died.
In an attempt to stop the infection, port quarantines were put into effect around the world. Most were too late to do any good. One out of every three persons on Earth fell ill. One out of every five of those died. Five percent of the total world population — one out of every 20 people — did not survive the pandemic. Within the first 6 months 25 million people died, more than were killed in 5 years of war. Entire towns and cities were shut down.
There were few professionals to help the sick. Doctors and nurses were the first responders and they succumbed immediately. (The morticians followed soon after.) The infected filled the hospitals, school gymnasiums, auditoriums — every large building that could hold masses of people was pressed into service. The beds and the floors were awash in blood as the people died . . . and hemorrhaged by the hundreds and the thousands while doing it. And the bodies piled up. Steam shovels were brought in and mass graves dug — row after row after row of identically sized holes stretching across empty fields in a terrible mockery of industrial expediency. Then the trucks came, the bodies piled high on the wooden beds, and the masked workers dropped them in, hour by hour, day by day, month after month. And behind them, the steam shovels covered them over . . . one by one, day by day, for the 2 terrible years of the pandemic. There were few coffins and often no headstones. The system was completely overwhelmed. Not even a full century of the Black Plague had killed like this. In the history of human habitation of Earth, never had a disease spread so quickly around the world nor killed so many in so short a time. Only one place on Earth reported no infections: the tiny island of Marajó near Brazil in South America. And then, as inexplicably as it had begun, in a 1-month period of time, between November and December of 1920, the pandemic ended, simultaneously, around the globe.
Much effort has been expended in recent years in an attempt to understand what made that particular influenza strain so much more deadly than all the others people have known. It turns out that there were two interrelated events that came together in just the right way at just the right time in a terrible serendipity of the universe. From that intermingling came the worst pandemic the human species has ever experienced.
The first event was the emergence of a new strain of influenza at just the right time in human history. An analysis of the viral genome from 1918 has revealed that a new influenza strain had jumped spe-cies (from birds) just prior to 1913. By 1915 the virus had split into two types: one infecting pigs, the other humans. The second event was the war itself, which began with perfect timing in 1914.
Normally, when people fall ill with the flu, they go home and rest. The soldiers could not and the new influenza strain rapidly spread throughout the troops on both sides of the conflict. Constrained in cramped, unhealthy conditions, in hospital tents and in trenches, the soldiers were a perfect breeding ground for the virus. And sometime between 1915 and late 1917 the virus mutated again, this time into a form that could powerfully infect just that kind of population: the young. Then, the war over, the soldiers, millions of whom were infected, were crowded together in ships (there was no air travel then) that sailed from port to port to port, infecting as they went. Once home port was reached, the soldiers took trains, buses, and cars to their individual towns and cities. And the virus went with them, infecting everyone.
Re-created forms of the strain, patiently assembled in laboratories, when given to primates, have been found to generate the same symp-toms as those described, in depth, by the physicians who treated the 1918 pandemic. An analysis of the physiological damage that occurs found that the reason the disease is so severe is that the virus creates a tremendously potent cytokine cascade in the body — a cytokine storm. A perfect storm. These cytokines are immunoregulatory proteins stimulated by the body’s innate immune system in response to infec-tion. The cytokine cascade is how the body attempts to kill off the invading pathogen. But this was much more than the usual immune response. The immune reaction was extreme, somewhere between 100 and 1,000 times what would be normal in those who were infected. And that overreaction, much more pronounced in those with strong immune systems, is what killed so many so quickly.
It is just this kind of influenza pandemic that epidemiologists and viral researchers fear will emerge once more. Given the current popu-lation density (and the crowding in prisons, nursing homes, hospitals, day care centers, and inner cities), the ecological disruptions that are occurring worldwide, the number of viruses that are jumping species, the rate of mutation, and the vast and very rapid movement of people via air travel, they say it is only a matter of time. And in spite of the many advances in medical technology, there is very little that modern medicine can do to treat a widespread pandemic of deadly influenza. Pharmaceutical antivirals are only partially effective for this kind of infection and the stocks of those antivirals are insufficient to deal with a true pandemic. And vaccines? Vaccines take time.
Flu vaccines have to be made for the specific virus that emerges in that year. This means that the disease will already be moving throughout the world before production even begins. And if it is a true pandemic of a deadly strain, by the time the vaccine is produced and shipped (normally a 3- to 6-month process), the infrastructure of the world will already be failing. The health-care workers, hospitals, and transportation workers will be the first to fall. Then the morticians and cemetery workers. The system will begin to shut down. Quaran-tines, forcing people to stay in their homes, will be put into effect to try and stop the spread. And people will survive as best they can, just as they always have.
Soo Iran is already at the point of doing mass burials.
Great author I enjoy his books, loved Intensity.
Yea I started reading koontz work when I had read most of king's back in the day.
I didn't read that book but I did download the pdf earlier in the month to see. And The Eyes of Darkness(1981) mentions a facility in Wuhan, China where they are making a serum to make people have telekinesis. There is a book by Sylvia Brown(pyschic) End of Days(2008) that mentions a pneumonia type virus in 2020 that will spread globally. So someone just posted both pages together to make it seem like its related to drive their story of look what i found this was imagined over 30 years ago.do either of y’all remember seeing/reading that part in one of his books saying 2020?
I didn't read that book but I did download the pdf earlier in the month to see. And The Eyes of Darkness(1981) mentions a facility in Wuhan, China where they are making a serum to make people have telekinesis. There is a book by Sylvia Brown(pyschic) End of Days(2008) that mentions a pneumonia type virus in 2020 that will spread globally. So someone just posted both pages together to make it seem like its related to drive their story of look what i found this was imagined over 30 years ago.
But it did drive up the sales of Koontz book because of wrong information. No way a book from 1981 shold be selling $49 to $399
Now people are praising her as been an incredible psychic, but what are her predication statistics. If she is below 99% then i don't care.
Yes that was actually 2020 with the virus in her book. But we can be mean and say it started in Dec 2019.yeah I figured that, also has that 2020 date that they are saying Sylvia Browne predicted been verified as being in one of her books?
do either of y’all remember seeing/reading that part in one of his books saying 2020?