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Cormac O'Shea

Coronavirus Ireland: Irish book's chilling 2020 predictions foresaw worldwide 'virus' and other mad happenings

An Irish prediction and horoscope book scarily predicted that the world would see a "virus" outbreak in 2020 - before anyone had even heard of the coronavirus.

The popular Old Moore's Almanac, which is released every year, came out in early December of 2019, a number of weeks before the first case of coronavirus was recorded in China.

The psychic predicted "an unusual virus has people worried" in the year 2020 while also saying "a drug resistant fungus causes problems".

They also said that "more and more people will work from home" - although they maybe didn't foresee that the aforementioned "virus" would lead to that.

Since the book was released and these predictions were told, the world has seen the Covid-19 pandemic sweep across the world with over 1 million cases.

Ireland has seen in excess of 150 people die from the virus while there have been over 5,000 cases confirmed since the outbreak reached our shores in late February.

And all but "essential workers" are now clocking in each and every day from their homes with lockdown restricting movements.

One prediction that is yet to come true would be pretty handy in the current climate is that a universal flu vaccine is on the way.

It says: "Soon we will have a universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains of the virus."

Another eerie prediction by the popular book was that Liam and Noel Gallagher would reconcile in 2020, something this pandemic has pushed closer.

Liam Gallagher insisted on an Oasis reunion to donate all the profits to the UK's health service back in late March.

Liam admitted he was "sick of pleading" and "begging" his brother to heal the wounds as he insisted they must band together in the face of the coronavirus crisis.

He wrote: "Rite sick of pleading begging etc no more olive branches I DEMAND an oasis reunion after this is all over all money going to NHS c’mon you know As we were LG x."

However there has been no positive reply from Noel since so that one looks a while away yet.

Other predictions that the book has made that could yet happen include Joe Biden to win the democratic presidential nomination and flash floods to cause problems in Italy.

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