How The Simpsons predicted ‘murder hornets’ and the coronavirus pandemic
The Simpsons predicted a type of corona virus as early as 1993.
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Believe it or not The simpsons animated TV series are still funnyDuring its 30-year broadcast, one thing is certain: the show is really good at predicting the future.
Not only The simpsons forecast our current Coronavirus pandemic
It also somehow knew we were going to be attacked Murder hornets, in the same year.
In 1993, The Simpsons Episode “Margin in chains“(Season 4, Episode 21) shows a mysterious virus from Asia that invades the city of Springfield. A sick factory worker in Japan sneezes into numerous packages of juicers that everyone from Homer Simpson to Principal Skinner orders.
When the residents of Springfield open their boxes from Japan, they get their products – and a whole lot of germs. Called the disease The Osaka flu Spreads like wildfire and the small town has to endure a creepy pandemic that feels a little too much like what the world is going through.
As expected, the citizens of Springfield storm the hospital as angry mob demanding healing, even if it’s just a placebo.
If they knock over a truck and believe it contains a cure, a box labeled “Killer Bees” falls to the ground, opening and unleashing a large swarm of deadly insects in the horrified crowd.
While these killer bees are not the same as our new threat from Asian giant hornets (Nickname “Murder Hornets”) was recently discovered in Washington State for the first time and is incredibly close to reality.
A Springfield resident even snatches the deadly insect from the air and eats what it predicts Murder hornets also make a great snack. How did you know that ?!
Other scary moments in the episode include Springfield’s mayor, who doesn’t take the virus seriously, an uprising over a political monument, and Marge, who is terrified that she has to play a nanny for her sick family, who is stuck at home.
Perhaps we should all pay more attention to the Simpsons for more clues as to how 2020 will ultimately develop. After all, the Simpsons too foresaw almost 20 years ago that Disney had bought Foxas well as predictions Donald Trump would one day be the U.S. President.
The Simpsons creator Nostradamus (um, rather Matt Groening) and Fox did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
