Well that's 6 mins of my life I'm not getting back. These conspiracy theories are just silly. The reason a lot of media predicted a covid-19 like outbreak is because scientists and doctors have been worried by the likelihood of such an outbreak for decades, especially since SARS. Probably the best example of this is the film Contagion. It basically looked at how SARS started and spread, and took some cues from the origins of Nipah, then basically plotted a worse case scenario in terms of high r0, high mortality and containment failure. Yet now it's taken as fuel for a bunch of wacky and baseless conspiracies.
As for these Simpsons clips, you've taken 6 mins worth of material from some 679 episodes of the show. Most of these clips don't mention anything relevant either. Flu has been around since forever, an episode based on this is hardly anything out of the ordinary, H1N1 outbreak in 1918 killed tens of millions. First clip just mentions Wuhan, one of China's largest cities in passing, no mention of disease etc, for example, the flu clip is from Osaka, another large city of Japan but not the capital, so what's the big deal here? As for the last clip, I fail to see the significance here too, quarantines have been around for hundreds of years, it's a method used for controlling spread of plague and smallpox even in those times. What's the deal then stringing together these random clips with little significance from a show with lots of content?
Please don't waste your energy with this stuff, and don't spread it. I see conspiracy theories like this coming from all sorts of people. But seeing how much Pakistanis, including those in my WhatsApp contacts, believe and spread this sort of content is really disheartening.
