Another Conspiracy Theory Coronavirus

The Eyes of Darkness is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz's, released in 1981. The book focuses on a mother who sets out on a quest to find out if her son truly did die one year ago, or if he is still alive.

Another conspiracy theory. Just how much does the disease detailed in Dean Koontz's novel The Eyes of Darkness line up with coronavirus?

OverviewA mother sends her son, on a camping trip with a leader who has led this trip into the mountains 16 times before without mishap; that is until this time. Every single camper and leader and driver die with no explanation. As the grieving mother who is the protagonist begins to accept the fact that her son, Danny, is dead she starts getting vicious bully-like attacks from nowhere saying he is not dead, such as writing on chalk boards, words from printers and other various 'signs'. Along with her new friend, Elliot Stryker, Christina Evans sets out to find out what could have possibly happened on the day that her son 'died'
 


The Coronavirus diseases  discovered within humans in Wuhan, China in 2019 drew parallels to the novel's 'Wuhan-400' bioweapon's  ,inspiring both curiosity and Conspiracy theories. 

The bioweapon's name in the first edition of the novel was "Gorki-400", unrelated to Wuhan. It was later changed as the novel's laboratory was relocated and renamed following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The first pandemic since 2009's swine flu, some people are proposing that Dean Koontz's 1981 novel The Eyes of Darkness predicted the outbreak nearly 40 years before the first cases in Wuhan, China. The book depicts a fictional virus/bioweapon known as "Wuhan-400," whose shared place of origin with the coronavirus has led conspiracy theorists to believe Koontz prophesied the current infection.

Aside from the city of origin, there are actually few similarities between the coronavirus/COVID-19 and Koontz's Wuhan-400. The virus in Koontz's horror-thriller is described as a bioweapon that attacks the brain with an extremely fast incubation period of just four hours and a lethal mortality rate of 100 percent. The novel also notes that Wuhan-400 was designed to wipe out entire cities or countries.

And the real-life coronavirus, which triggers flu-like symptoms including fever and shortness of breath, has a longer average incubation period of about 14 days and a much less scary mortality rate of 2 percent to 3 percent. Although evidence on its exact origins is conflicted, with initial reports linking the virus to "wet-markets," it is clear the coronavirus was never meant for biological warfare.