Post by Webster on Mar 29, 2020 14:14:39 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Stephen King, who is considered an expert on the Coronavirus outbreak by some because he once wrote a (pretty good) book about a pandemic, has attacked the lack of preparation for Covid-19.
“Just in the last three or four weeks people are saying to me, ‘We are living in a Stephen King world,’ and boy, all I can say is I wish we weren’t,” King told CNN.
“This has been waiting in the wings for a long, long time. I wrote The Stand about a pandemic that wipes out most of the human race, and thank God this one isn’t that bad, but I wrote that in 1979 and ever since then this has just been waiting to happen. The fact that nobody really seemed prepared still mystifies me.”
The Stand, one of King’s most popular books, details a pandemic that kills 99.94% of the world’s population. Unlike the current outbreak, it has supernatural elements and culminates in a showdown between forces of good and evil in Las Vegas (although the Las Vegas Raiders could still play the New England Patriots in the upcoming NFL season).
-Read more: www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/29/stephen-king-the-stand-coronavirus-trump-books
“Just in the last three or four weeks people are saying to me, ‘We are living in a Stephen King world,’ and boy, all I can say is I wish we weren’t,” King told CNN.
“This has been waiting in the wings for a long, long time. I wrote The Stand about a pandemic that wipes out most of the human race, and thank God this one isn’t that bad, but I wrote that in 1979 and ever since then this has just been waiting to happen. The fact that nobody really seemed prepared still mystifies me.”
The Stand, one of King’s most popular books, details a pandemic that kills 99.94% of the world’s population. Unlike the current outbreak, it has supernatural elements and culminates in a showdown between forces of good and evil in Las Vegas (although the Las Vegas Raiders could still play the New England Patriots in the upcoming NFL season).
-Read more: www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/29/stephen-king-the-stand-coronavirus-trump-books