We all have heard of Nostradamus. Michel de Nostradame was an astrologer who lived in France in the 1500s. He is known today for the poetic quatrains he wrote for his book, “Les Prophéties,” which many claim foretold various significant historical events.
There is a meme that he predicted the Coronavirus.
“There will be a twin year (2020) from which will arise a queen (corona) who will come from the east (China) and who will spread a plague (virus) in the darkness of night, on a country with 7 hills (Italy) and will transform the twilight of men into dust (death), to destroy and ruin the world. It will be the end of the world economy as you know it.”
Various people who have studied the 942 poetic quatrains have said that this isn’t one of them. So no he didn’t predict the world as it is today.
But I found a few points in this false claim interesting. I’ll start with the “twin year” and “spread a plague”. The interesting part of this is that in both 1919, and now 2020, twin year, there was a deadly virus.
The spanish flu pandemic may have begun in 1918, it lasted through output the twin year of 1919 and wasn’t declared to be fully over until 1920.
The other is the phrase, “end of the world economy as we know it.” To what degree the economy changed after the Spanish Flu I do not know, but it would seem to me that there had to be some, if fo no other reason that the workforce changed.