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Collected Item: “Twitter’s Nostradamus”

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Twitter’s Nostradamus

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screenshot of two social media posts from Twitter, found on a Discord server.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This individual, The Red-Headed Libertarian, is evidently psychic, predicting that there would be a plague in 2020. Granted, their logic for guessing this is based on something that became apparent to many after COVID hit, which is that the 20th year of the past two centuries have included pandemic events.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Twitter, humor, future, prophetic, 1820, 1920, plague

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

The Red-Headed Libertarian

Give this story a date.

2020-10-28
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