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How a little bug upended our privileged lives

Could Kim Kardashian and the Insta-generation be the first casualty of COVID-19?

Andrew ClarkSenior writer

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Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star famous for being famous, has pushed her personal publicity machine to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing with 64 million Twitter followers the “revelation” that a psychic predicted the worldwide contagion 12 years ago.

The Kardashian Twitter grab features a page purportedly from a 2008 book titled End of Days by psychic Sylvia Brown. It forecasts that “around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness” will infect the world, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes. “It will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely,” Sylvia Brown writes.

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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au

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